Saerom Park
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology · Computer Science
About the Lab
Professor Saerom Park's research lab specializes in privacy-preserving machine learning, with a focus on developing secure and fair algorithms using homomorphic encryption and confidential computing. The lab investigates secure training and inference for machine learning models, particularly support vector machines, while protecting sensitive data and model integrity. Another key direction involves fairness-aware machine learning and auditing frameworks that ensure non-discrimination without compromising data privacy. The lab also explores practical applications in finance and environmental science, integrating machine learning with real-world data challenges such as market impact prediction and pore-scale environmental modeling.
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15Support vector machine (SVM) is one of the most popular machine learning algorithms. It predicts a pre-defined output variable in real-world applications. Machine learning on encrypted data is becoming more and more important to protect both model information and data against various adversaries. While some studies have been proposed on inference or prediction phases, few have been reported on the training phase. Homomorphic encryption (HE) for the arithmetic of approximate numbers scheme enable
Fair learning has received a lot of attention in recent years since machine learning models can be unfair in automated decision-making systems with respect to sensitive attributes such as gender, race, etc. However, to mitigate the discrimination on the sensitive attributes and train a fair model, most fair learning methods have required to get access to the sensitive attributes in training or validation phases. In this study, we propose a privacy-preserving training algorithm for a fair support
Algorithmic discrimination is one of the significant concerns in applying machine learning models to a real-world system. Many researchers have focused on developing fair machine learning algorithms without discrimination based on legally protected attributes. However, the existing research has barely explored various security issues that can occur while evaluating model fairness and verifying fair models. In this study, we propose a fairness audit framework that assesses the fairness of ML algo
Market impact cost is the most significant portion of implicit transaction costs that can reduce the overall transaction cost, although it cannot be measured directly. In this paper, we employed the state-of-the-art nonparametric machine learning models: neural networks, Bayesian neural network, Gaussian process, and support vector regression, to predict market impact cost accurately and to provide the predictive model that is versatile in the number of variables. We collected a large amount of
Precipitates induced by the pore-scale mixing of iron sulfate solutions with simulated groundwater were investigated using a microfluidic pore model to assess the environmental impacts of the infiltration of acid mine drainage into a shallow aquifer. This model was employed to visualize the formation of precipitates in a porous network and to evaluate their physicochemical influences on pore flow. Four types of groundwater (Na-HCO<sub>3</sub>, Na-SO<sub>4</sub>, Na-Cl, and Ca-Cl) were evaluated,
Developing a robust and sustainable system is an important problem in which deep learning models are used in real-world applications. Ensemble methods combine diverse models to improve performance and achieve robustness. The analysis of time series data requires dealing with continuously incoming instances; however, most ensemble models suffer when adapting to a change in data distribution. Therefore, we propose an on-line ensemble deep learning algorithm that aggregates deep learning models and
This paper describes a new image generation algorithm based on generative adversarial network. With an information-theoretic extension to the autoencoder-based discriminator, this new algorithm is able to learn interpretable representations from the input images. Our model not only adversarially minimizes the Wasserstein distance-based losses of the discriminator and generator but also maximizes the mutual information between small subset of the latent variables and the observation. We also trai
Abstract The authors proposed a privacy‐preserving evaluation algorithm for support vector clustering with a fully homomorphic encryption. The proposed method assigns clustering labels to encrypted test data with an encrypted support function. This method inherits the advantageous properties of support vector clustering, which is naturally inductive to cluster new test data from complex distributions. The authors efficiently implemented the proposed method with elaborate packing of the plaintext
Recently, security issues have become more and more important to apply machine learning models to a real-world problem. It is necessary to preserve the data privacy for using sensitive data and to protect the information of a trained model for defending the intentional attacks. In this paper, we want to propose a security-preserving learning framework using fully homomorphic encryption for support vector machine model. Our approach aims to train the model on encrypted domain to preserve data and
Natural language processing (NLP) is an important application area in domain adaptation because properties of texts depend on their corpus. However, a textual input is not fundamentally represented as the numerical vector. Many domain adaptation methods for NLP have been developed on the basis of n umerical representations of texts instead of textual inputs. Thus, we develop a distributed representation learning method of words and documents for domain adaptation. The developed method addresses
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