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ARXIV:2603.06359 · PRIVACY-PRESERVING ML · SUBMITTED 19 MAR · 18:48 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.06359PRIVACY-PRESERVING MLSUBMITTED 19 MAR · 18:48 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
Enable client-side machine learning with a hardware-independent, compression-based classification model that protects user privacy and minimizes computational costs.
Opportunity summary
Pain Enable client-side machine learning with a hardware-independent, compression-based classification model that protects user privacy and minimizes computational costs.
Evidence 0 refs | 0 sources | 33% coverage
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Enable client-side machine learning with a hardware-independent, compression-based classification model that protects user privacy and minimizes computational costs. The importance of user privacy and the struggle for power over user data has been intensified…
The recent developments in machine learning have highlighted a conflict between online platforms and their users in terms of privacy. The importance of user privacy and the struggle for power over user data has…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. In this work, we demonstrate that the normalised compression distance is actually not a metric; develop it for the wider context of kernel methods…
Privacy-Preserving ML moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10.
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Enable client-side machine learning with a hardware-independent, compression-based classification model that protects user privacy and minimizes computational costs.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.06359Enable client-side machine learning with a hardware-independent, compression-based classification model that protects user privacy and minimizes computational costs.
Abstract
The recent developments in machine learning have highlighted a conflict between online platforms and their users in terms of privacy. The importance of user privacy and the struggle for power over user data has been intensified as regulators and operators attempt to police online platforms. As users have become increasingly aware of privacy issues, client-side data storage, management, and analysis have become a favoured approach to large-scale centralised machine learning. However, state-of-the-art machine learning methods require vast amounts of labelled user data, making them unsuitable for models that reside client-side and only have access to a single user's data. State-of-the-art methods are also computationally expensive, which degrades the user experience on compute-limited hardware and also reduces battery life. A recent alternative approach has proven remarkably successful in classification tasks across a wide variety of data -- using a compression-based distance measure (called normalised compression distance) to measure the distance between generic objects in classical distance-based machine learning methods. In this work, we demonstrate that the normalised compression distance is actually not a metric; develop it for the wider context of kernel methods to allow modelling of complex data; and present techniques to improve the training time of models that use this distance measure. We demonstrate that the normalised compression distance works as well as and sometimes better than other metrics and kernels -- while requiring only marginally more computational costs and in spite of the lack of formal metric properties. The end results is a simple model with remarkable accuracy even when trained on a very small number of samples allowing for models that are small and effective enough to run entirely on a client device using only user-supplied data.
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PROBLEM
Enable client-side machine learning with a hardware-independent, compression-based classification model that protects user privacy and minimizes computational costs. The importance of user privacy and the struggle for power over user data has been intensified as regulators and o...
METHOD
The recent developments in machine learning have highlighted a conflict between online platforms and their users in terms of privacy. The importance of user privacy and the struggle for power over user data has been intensified as regulators and operators attempt to police onlin...
RESULT
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. In this work, we demonstrate that the normalised compression distance is actually not a metric; develop it for the wider context of kernel methods to allow modelling of complex data; and present technique...
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Privacy-Preserving ML moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10.
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Enable client-side machine learning with a hardware-independent, compression-based classification model that protects user privacy and minimizes computational costs. The importance of user privacy and the struggle for power over user data has been intensified as regulators and operators attempt to police online platforms.
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The recent developments in machine learning have highlighted a conflict between online platforms and their users in terms of privacy. The importance of user privacy and the struggle for power over user data has been intensified as regulators and operators attempt to police online platforms.
Abstract-backed fallback claim; anchored extraction has not materialized a public claim row yet.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. In this work, we demonstrate that the normalised compression distance is actually not a metric; develop it for the wider context of kernel methods to allow modelling of complex data; and present techniques to improve the training time of models that use this distance measure.
Abstract-backed fallback claim; anchored extraction has not materialized a public claim row yet.
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Privacy-Preserving ML moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10.
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Enable client-side machine learning with a hardware-independent, compression-based classification model that protects user privacy and minimizes computational costs.
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