Towards Quantifying the Carbon Emissions of Differentially Private Machine Learning

Authors: Rakshit Naidu, Harshita Diddee, Ajinkya Mulay, Aleti Vardhan, Krithika Ramesh, Ahmed Zamzam
Published: 2021-07-14

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.06946

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.06946

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Abstract

In recent years, machine learning techniques utilizing large-scale datasets have achieved remarkable performance. Differential privacy, by means of adding noise, provides strong privacy guarantees for such learning algorithms. The cost of differential privacy is often a reduced model accuracy and a lowered convergence speed. This paper investigates the impact of differential privacy on learning algorithms in terms of their carbon footprint due to either longer run-times or failed experiments. Through extensive experiments, further guidance is provided on choosing the noise levels which can strike a balance between desired privacy levels and reduced carbon emissions.