Towards Split Learning-based Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage

Michail Zervas, Alexandros Karakasidis

Keywords: Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage, Split Learning, Support Vector Machines

TL;DR: Highly Efficient Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage through SVMs and synthetic dataset generation

Abstract: Split Learning has been recently introduced to facilitate applications where user data privacy is a requirement. However, it has not been thoroughly studied in the context of Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage, a problem in which the same real-world entity should be identified among databases from different dataholders, but without disclosing any additional information. In this paper, we investigate the potentials of Split Learning for Privacy-Preserving Record Matching, by introducing a novel training method through the utilization of Reference Sets, which are publicly available data corpora, showcasing minimal matching impact against a traditional centralized SVM-based technique.

Submission Number: 98