Title
Memristor-Based Neuromorphic Hardware Improvement for Privacy-Preserving ANN
Abstract
Because of collecting a large amount of personal data, when the artificial neural network (ANN) is used in human-related topics, it has raised great concerns on privacy preservation. A robust solution is to introduce a noise injection mechanism as differential privacy that promises strong theoretical privacy guarantees. However, privacy-preserving ANN with noisy input data has a substantial risk of reducing the recognition accuracy. Therefore, it is urgently needed to have technologies that can make users’ data applied to neural networks while strictly protecting sensitive information. In this paper, a linear optimization (LO) method is proposed to address this accuracy degradation by optimizing the performance of memristor in weight updating processes. Instead of complying with the traditional hardware and algorithm, the LO method calculates update parameters along a piecewise line by using different input pulses. The proposed method can mitigate the nonlinear problem of memristor without prereading the precise current conductance each time, thereby avoiding complex peripheral circuits. The effectiveness of the proposed LO method with two-segment, three-segment, and four-segment models is investigated, respectively. The results show that under different nonlinearity and different perturbation noise required by differential privacy theory, the LO method can increase the recognition accuracy of Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology (MNIST) handwriting digits by 39.67% on average, which provides more space and margin for privacy-preserving technology.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TVLSI.2019.2923722
IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Artificial neural network (ANN),memristor,neuromorphic hardware,nonlinearity,privacy preservation
Neuromorphic hardware,Computer architecture,Memristor,Computer science,Electronic engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
27
12
1063-8210
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jingyan Fu102.70
Zhiheng Liao222.39
Jinhui Wang38720.44