A Privacy Preserving Probabilistic Neural Network for Horizontally Partitioned Databases

In this paper, we present a version of the probabilistic neural network (PNN) that is capable of operating on a distributed database that is horizontally partitioned. It does so in a way that is privacy-preserving: that is, a test point can be evaluated by the algorithm without any party knowing the data owned by the other parties. We present an analysis of this algorithm from the standpoints of security and computational performance. Finally, we provide performance results of an implementation of this privacy preserving, distributed PNN algorithm.