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Multi-task learning (MTL) refers to the paradigm of learning multiple related tasks together. In contrast, in single-task learning (STL) each individual task is learned independently. MTL often leads to better trained models because they…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-03 Jian Liang , Ziqi Liu , Jiayu Zhou , Xiaoqian Jiang , Changshui Zhang , Fei Wang

In this work we address the practical challenges of training machine learning models on privacy-sensitive datasets by introducing a modular approach that minimizes changes to training algorithms, provides a variety of configuration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 H. Brendan McMahan , Galen Andrew , Ulfar Erlingsson , Steve Chien , Ilya Mironov , Nicolas Papernot , Peter Kairouz

Meeting summarization has an enormous business potential, but in addition to being a hard problem, roll-out is challenged by privacy concerns. We explore the problem of meeting summarization under differential privacy constraints and find,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Seolhwa Lee , Anders Søgaard

This paper considers random walk-based decentralized learning, where at each iteration of the learning process, one user updates the model and sends it to a randomly chosen neighbor until a convergence criterion is met. Preserving data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Maximilian Egger , Svenja Lage , Rawad Bitar , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

Differential privacy (DP) ensures that training a machine learning model does not leak private data. In practice, we may have access to auxiliary public data that is free of privacy concerns. In this work, we assume access to a given amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Andrew Lowy , Zeman Li , Tianjian Huang , Meisam Razaviyayn

Active learning (AL) is a widely used technique for optimizing data labeling in machine learning by iteratively selecting, labeling, and training on the most informative data. However, its integration with formal privacy-preserving methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Kristian Schwethelm , Johannes Kaiser , Jonas Kuntzer , Mehmet Yigitsoy , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Many algorithms have been developed to estimate probability distributions subject to differential privacy (DP): such an algorithm takes as input independent samples from a distribution and estimates the density function in a way that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Albert Cheu , Debanuj Nayak

Deep learning often requires a large amount of data. In real-world applications, e.g., healthcare applications, the data collected by a single organization (e.g., hospital) is often limited, and the majority of massive and diverse data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Di Zhuang , Mingchen Li , J. Morris Chang

We consider the straggler problem in decentralized learning over a logical ring while preserving user data privacy. Especially, we extend the recently proposed framework of differential privacy (DP) amplification by decentralization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yauhen Yakimenka , Chung-Wei Weng , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

We study the difficulties in learning that arise from robust and differentially private optimization. We first study convergence of gradient descent based adversarial training with differential privacy, taking a simple binary classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Jamie Hayes , Borja Balle , M. Pawan Kumar

In vertical federated learning (FL), the features of a data sample are distributed across multiple agents. As such, inter-agent collaboration can be beneficial not only during the learning phase, as is the case for standard horizontal FL,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Sharu Theresa Jose , Osvaldo Simeone

The deployment of deep learning applications has to address the growing privacy concerns when using private and sensitive data for training. A conventional deep learning model is prone to privacy attacks that can recover the sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Di Gao , Cheng Zhuo

We introduce a simple framework for designing private boosting algorithms. We give natural conditions under which these algorithms are differentially private, efficient, and noise-tolerant PAC learners. To demonstrate our framework, we use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mark Bun , Marco Leandro Carmosino , Jessica Sorrell

Data privacy is an important concern in machine learning, and is fundamentally at odds with the task of training useful learning models, which typically require the acquisition of large amounts of private user data. One possible way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

Deep learning with differential privacy (DP) has garnered significant attention over the past years, leading to the development of numerous methods aimed at enhancing model accuracy and training efficiency. This paper delves into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Youlong Ding , Xueyang Wu , Yining Meng , Yonggang Luo , Hao Wang , Weike Pan

The problem of privately releasing data is to provide a version of a dataset without revealing sensitive information about the individuals who contribute to the data. The model of differential privacy allows such private release while…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-07 Graham Cormode , Magda Procopiuc , Divesh Srivastava , Thanh T. L. Tran

Differential privacy is a mathematical concept that provides an information-theoretic security guarantee. While differential privacy has emerged as a de facto standard for guaranteeing privacy in data sharing, the known mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

We investigate the computational efficiency of multitask learning of Boolean functions over the $d$-dimensional hypercube, that are related by means of a feature representation of size $k \ll d$ shared across all tasks. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Konstantina Bairaktari , Guy Blanc , Li-Yang Tan , Jonathan Ullman , Lydia Zakynthinou

Histograms and synthetic data are of key importance in data analysis. However, researchers have shown that even aggregated data such as histograms, containing no obvious sensitive attributes, can result in privacy leakage. To enable data…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Boel Nelson , Jenni Reuben

We consider the critical problem of distributed learning over data while keeping it private from the computational servers. The state-of-the-art approaches to this problem rely on quantizing the data into a finite field, so that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar , A. Salman Avestimehr