Toward Verifiable and Privacy Preserving Machine Learning Prediction

The ubiquitous needs for extracting insights from data are driving the emergence of service providers to offer predictions given the inputs from customers. During this process, it is important and highly nontrivial for the service providers to generate proofs of honest predictions without leaking the key parameters of their trained models. In addition, the customers are usually unwilling to reveal their sensitive inputs. In this article, we proposed MVP, which enables
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achine learning prediction in a
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erifiable and
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rivacy preserving fashion. MVP features the properties of polynomial decomposition and prime-order bilinear groups to simultaneously facilitate oblivious evaluation and batch outcome verification while maintaining function privacy and input privacy. We further instantiated MVP with Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and extensively evaluated its performance for the spam detection task on three practical Short Message Service (SMS) datasets. Our analysis and evaluation results reveal that MVP achieves the desired properties while incurring low computation and communication overhead.