CutClean: Neural Network Pruning for Privacy-Preserving Inference
Quick summary
arXiv:2608.13773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks are increasingly deployed in high-stakes applications with growing privacy leakage concerns. We show that this privacy leakage can occur even in the absence of representation imbalances that lead to traditional dataset biases. This poses significant privacy risks when deploying models that process sensitive attributes. In this context, we propose CutClean, a privacy-aware pruning method that allows to reduce privacy information flow through the network, while increasing its sparsity. Our approach employs auxiliary linear privacy
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.13773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks are increasingly deployed in high-stakes applications with growing privacy leakage concerns.
- We show that this privacy leakage can occur even in the absence of representation imbalances that lead to traditional dataset biases.
- This poses significant privacy risks when deploying models that process sensitive attributes.
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