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While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

In this paper, we apply machine learning to distributed private data owned by multiple data owners, entities with access to non-overlapping training datasets. We use noisy, differentially-private gradients to minimize the fitness cost of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Nan Wu , Farhad Farokhi , David Smith , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

We study instrumental variable regression (IVaR) under differential privacy constraints. Classical IVaR methods (like two-stage least squares regression) rely on solving moment equations that directly use sensitive covariates and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Haodong Liang , Yanhao Jin , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian , Lifeng Lai

Ensuring differential privacy of models learned from sensitive user data is an important goal that has been studied extensively in recent years. It is now known that for some basic learning problems, especially those involving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Cynthia Dwork , Vitaly Feldman

Differentially private machine learning trains models while protecting privacy of the sensitive training data. The key to obtain differentially private models is to introduce noise/randomness to the training process. In particular, existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Hongbin Liu , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Algorithms such as Differentially Private SGD enable training machine learning models with formal privacy guarantees. However, there is a discrepancy between the protection that such algorithms guarantee in theory and the protection they…

Differential privacy is a de facto standard for statistical computations over databases that contain private data. The strength of differential privacy lies in a rigorous mathematical definition that guarantees individual privacy and yet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gilles Barthe , Rohit Chadha , Vishal Jagannath , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated approach to privacy that has become a very active field of research over the last decade in theoretical computer science and machine learning. In this paradigm one assumes there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Marco Avella-Medina

Significant success has been realized recently on applying machine learning to real-world applications. There have also been corresponding concerns on the privacy of training data, which relates to data security and confidentiality issues.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Hao Liu , Lawrence Carin

Differential privacy (DP) has become the standard for private data analysis. Certain machine learning applications only require privacy protection for specific protected attributes. Using naive variants of differential privacy in such use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Saeed Mahloujifar , Chuan Guo , G. Edward Suh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

In order to both learn and protect sensitive training data, there has been a growing interest in privacy preserving machine learning methods. Differential privacy has emerged as an important measure of privacy. We are interested in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Antoine Barczewski , Amal Mawass , Jan Ramon

Machine learning models should not reveal particular information that is not otherwise accessible. Differential privacy provides a formal framework to mitigate privacy risks by ensuring that the inclusion or exclusion of any single data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

Decentralized optimization is gaining increased traction due to its widespread applications in large-scale machine learning and multi-agent systems. The same mechanism that enables its success, i.e., information sharing among participating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

Models need to be trained with privacy-preserving learning algorithms to prevent leakage of possibly sensitive information contained in their training data. However, canonical algorithms like differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yannis Cattan , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Nicolas Papernot , Abhradeep Thakurta

Differential privacy comes equipped with multiple analytical tools for the design of private data analyses. One important tool is the so-called "privacy amplification by subsampling" principle, which ensures that a differentially private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Borja Balle , Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi

Differential privacy has emerged as an significant cornerstone in the realm of scientific hypothesis testing utilizing confidential data. In reporting scientific discoveries, Bayesian tests are widely adopted since they effectively…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-22 Abhisek Chakraborty , Saptati Datta

This paper investigates the problem of forecasting multivariate aggregated human mobility while preserving the privacy of the individuals concerned. Differential privacy, a state-of-the-art formal notion, has been used as the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Héber H. Arcolezi , Jean-François Couchot , Denis Renaud , Bechara Al Bouna , Xiaokui Xiao

The need to analyze sensitive data, such as medical records or financial data, has created a critical research challenge in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the framework of differential privacy, and explore mechanisms for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nikolija Bojkovic , Po-Ling Loh

Differential privacy is becoming one gold standard for protecting the privacy of publicly shared data. It has been widely used in social science, data science, public health, information technology, and the U.S. decennial census.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xuan Bi , Xiaotong Shen

Privacy-preserving machine learning aims to train models on private data without leaking sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is considered the gold standard framework for privacy-preserving training, as it provides formal…