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Re:Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distribut... by dang on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @09:41PM (#35269484)
Can you say more about what differential privacy is and how it works, for those of us who don't know or don't remember?
Re:Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distribut... by aix1 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @03:52AM (#35271641)
I too would be interested in understanding this better.

Let's say we're building a medical segmentation model, which takes a patient image and outlines a tumour (or some other feature that's unique to them). I am not sure this matters here, but let's say the model is a basic 2D U-net. Image pixels in, binary pixel labels out (cancer/non-cancer).

At a high level, how would a differentially-private setup work for training such a model across multiple institutions without pooling their patient data?

Re:Launch HN: Flower (YC W23) – Train AI models on distribut... by 1wheel on Thursday March 23, 2023 @07:11AM (#35272910)