Deep Homeomorphic Data Encryption for Privacy Preserving Machine Learning

Addressing privacy concerns is critical in smart manufacturing where sensitive data is used for machine learning. Data protection is essential to ensure model accuracy while upholding data privacy. Homeomorphic encryption, an algorithm for privacy-preserving machine learning, achieves this by transforming data using a neural network with secret key weights. This process conceals private data while retaining the potential to learn classification models from the anonymized data. This paper introduces a comprehensive quality metric to assess homeomorphic encryption across conflicting criteria: security (regarding private data), machine learning adaptability (tolerance), and efficiency (regarding needed extra resources). Through experiments on various datasets, the metric proves its effectiveness in guiding optimal encryption parameter selection. Our findings highlight homeomorphic encryption's strong overall quality, positioning it as a valuable Industry 4.0 solution. By offering a simpler alternative to fully homomorphic encryption, it effectively addresses privacy concerns and enhances data usability in the context of smart manufacturing.