International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 28 April 2015

David J. Wu, Tony Feng, Michael Naehrig, Kristin Lauter
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Decision trees and random forests are common classifiers with widespread use. In this paper, we develop two protocols for privately evaluating decision trees and random forests. We operate in the standard two-party setting where the server holds a model (either a tree or a forest), and the client holds an input (a feature vector). At the conclusion of the protocol, the client learns only the model\'s output on its input and a few generic parameters concerning the model; the server learns nothing. The first protocol we develop provides security against semi-honest adversaries. Next, we show an extension of the semi-honest protocol that obtains one-sided security against malicious adversaries. We implement both protocols and show that both variants are able to process trees with several hundred decision nodes in just a few seconds and a modest amount of bandwidth. Compared to previous semi-honest protocols for private decision tree evaluation, we demonstrate tenfold improvements in computation and bandwidth.

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