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Differentially private learning is essential for training models on sensitive data, but empirical studies consistently show that it can degrade performance, introduce fairness issues like disparate impact, and reduce adversarial robustness.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ruichen Xu , Kexin Chen

Directed graphical models (DGMs) are a class of probabilistic models that are widely used for predictive analysis in sensitive domains, such as medical diagnostics. In this paper we present an algorithm for differentially private learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Theodoros Rekatsinas , Somesh Jha

We propose a general learning framework for the protection mechanisms that protects privacy via distorting model parameters, which facilitates the trade-off between privacy and utility. The algorithm is applicable to arbitrary privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaojin Zhang , Wenjie Li , Kai Chen , Shutao Xia , Qiang Yang

Differential privacy is a formal mathematical {stand-ard} for quantifying the degree of that individual privacy in a statistical database is preserved. To guarantee differential privacy, a typical method is adding random noise to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jianping He , Lin Cai

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a rigorous formalism to reason about quantifiable privacy leakage. In machine learning (ML), DP has been employed to limit inference/disclosure of training examples. Prior work leveraged DP across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Ismat Jarin , Birhanu Eshete

The iterative nature of the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm presents a challenge for privacy-preserving estimation, as each iteration increases the amount of noise needed. We propose a practical private EM algorithm that overcomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mijung Park , Jimmy Foulds , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Max Welling

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong privacy protection, especially in settings in which the server collecting the data is untrusted. However, designing LDP mechanisms that achieve an optimal trade-off between privacy, utility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs

In many signal processing and machine learning applications, datasets containing private information are held at different locations, requiring the development of distributed privacy-preserving algorithms. Tensor and matrix factorizations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-23 Hafiz Imtiaz , Anand D. Sarwate

ldp deployments are vulnerable to inference attacks as an adversary can link the noisy responses to their identity and subsequently, auxiliary information using the order of the data. An alternative model, shuffle DP, prevents this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Casey Meehan , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Somesh Jha

The use of Deep Neural Network based systems in the real world is growing. They have achieved state-of-the-art performance on many image, speech and text datasets. They have been shown to be powerful systems that are capable of learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Alizishaan Anwar Hussein Khatri

Non-interactive Local Differential Privacy (LDP) requires data analysts to collect data from users through noisy channel at once. In this paper, we extend the frontiers of Non-interactive LDP learning and estimation from several aspects.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Kai Zheng , Wenlong Mou , Liwei Wang

A central challenge in machine learning is to understand how noise or measurement errors affect low-rank approximations, particularly in the spectral norm. This question is especially important in differentially private low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Phuc Tran , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi , Van H. Vu

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradients Descent (DP-SGD) is a prominent paradigm for preserving privacy in deep learning. It ensures privacy by perturbing gradients with random noise calibrated to their entire norm at each training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yixuan Liu , Li Xiong , Yuhan Liu , Yujie Gu , Ruixuan Liu , Hong Chen

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

Machine learning models are increasingly used in high-stakes decision-making systems. In such applications, a major concern is that these models sometimes discriminate against certain demographic groups such as individuals with certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Andrew Lowy , Devansh Gupta , Meisam Razaviyayn

Modern stream-based monitors collect detailed statistics of the runtime behavior of the system under observation. If the system runs in a privacy-sensitive context, this poses the risk of disclosing sensitive information. Differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bernd Finkbeiner , Frederik Scheerer

When applying differential privacy to sensitive data, we can often improve performance using external information such as other sensitive data, public data, or human priors. We propose to use the learning-augmented algorithms (or algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mikhail Khodak , Kareem Amin , Travis Dick , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Differential privacy has been used to privately calculate numerous network properties, but existing approaches often require the development of a new privacy mechanism for each property of interest. Therefore, we present a framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Huaiyuan Rao , Calvin Hawkins , Alexander Benvenuti , Matthew Hale

Balancing differential privacy (DP) with recommendation accuracy is a key challenge in privacy-preserving recommender systems, since DP-noise degrades accuracy. We address this trade-off at both the data and model levels. At the data level,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Peter Müllner , Dominik Kowald , Markus Schedl , Elisabeth Lex