Enhancing the efficiency in privacy preserving learning of decision trees in partitioned databases

  • Authors:
  • Peter Lory

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • PSD'12 Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper considers a scenario where two parties having private databases wish to cooperate by computing a data mining algorithm on the union of their databases without revealing any unnecessary information. In particular, they want to apply the decision tree learning algorithm ID3 in a privacy preserving manner. Lindell and Pinkas (2002) have presented a protocol for this purpose, which enjoys a formal proof of privacy and is considerably more efficient than generic solutions. The crucial point of their protocol is the approximation of the logarithm function by a truncated Taylor series. The present paper improves this approximation by using a suitable Chebyshev expansion. This approach results in a considerably more efficient new version of the protocol.