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We consider the problem of learning Markov Random Fields (including the prototypical example, the Ising model) under the constraint of differential privacy. Our learning goals include both structure learning, where we try to estimate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Huanyu Zhang , Gautam Kamath , Janardhan Kulkarni , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We study statistical estimation under local differential privacy (LDP) when users may hold heterogeneous privacy levels and accuracy must be guaranteed with high probability. Departing from the common in-expectation analyses, and for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Alireza Fallah , Swaha Roy , Ria Stevens

Most works in learning with differential privacy (DP) have focused on the setting where each user has a single sample. In this work, we consider the setting where each user holds $m$ samples and the privacy protection is enforced at the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Distributed online learning is gaining increased traction due to its unique ability to process large-scale datasets and streaming data. To address the growing public awareness and concern on privacy protection, plenty of algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

In the past decade analysis of big data has proven to be extremely valuable in many contexts. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a state-of-the-art approach which allows statistical computations while protecting each individual user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Björn Bebensee

We propose a new mechanism to accurately answer a user-provided set of linear counting queries under local differential privacy (LDP). Given a set of linear counting queries (the workload) our mechanism automatically adapts to provide…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ryan McKenna , Raj Kumar Maity , Arya Mazumdar , Gerome Miklau

We study the sample complexity of learning threshold functions under the constraint of differential privacy. It is assumed that each labeled example in the training data is the information of one individual and we would like to come up with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haim Kaplan , Katrina Ligett , Yishay Mansour , Moni Naor , Uri Stemmer

The widespread adoption of machine learning necessitates robust privacy protection alongside algorithmic resilience. While Local Differential Privacy (LDP) provides foundational guarantees, sophisticated adversaries with prior knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen

Local differential privacy (LDP) is increasingly employed in privacy-preserving machine learning to protect user data before sharing it with an untrusted aggregator. Most LDP methods assume that users possess only a single data record,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Behnoosh Zamanlooy , Mario Diaz , Shahab Asoodeh

Local differential privacy (LDP) can provide each user with strong privacy guarantees under untrusted data curators while ensuring accurate statistics derived from privatized data. Due to its powerfulness, LDP has been widely adopted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Teng Wang , Jun Zhao , Xinyu Yang , Xuebin Ren

We consider online and PAC learning of Littlestone classes subject to the constraint of approximate differential privacy. Our main result is a private learner to online-learn a Littlestone class with a mistake bound of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-02 Xin Lyu

We introduce efficient differentially private (DP) algorithms for several linear algebraic tasks, including solving linear equalities over arbitrary fields, linear inequalities over the reals, and computing affine spans and convex hulls. As…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour , Shay Moran , Uri Stemmer , Nitzan Tur

Distributed online learning has been proven extremely effective in solving large-scale machine learning problems over streaming data. However, information sharing between learners in distributed learning also raises concerns about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

In this paper, we investigate federated learning for quantile inference under local differential privacy (LDP). We propose an estimator based on local stochastic gradient descent (SGD), whose local gradients are perturbed via a randomized…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-29 Leheng Cai , Qirui Hu , Shuyuan Wu

Distributed learning systems have enabled training large-scale models over large amount of data in significantly shorter time. In this paper, we focus on decentralized distributed deep learning systems and aim to achieve differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Hsin-Pai Cheng , Patrick Yu , Haojing Hu , Feng Yan , Shiyu Li , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Graph pattern counting serves as a cornerstone of network analysis with extensive real-world applications. Its integration with local differential privacy (LDP) has gained growing attention for protecting sensitive graph information in…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yihua Hu , Kuncan Wang , Wei Dong

We study federated learning (FL) -- especially cross-silo FL -- with non-convex loss functions and data from people who do not trust the server or other silos. In this setting, each silo (e.g. hospital) must protect the privacy of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Andrew Lowy , Ali Ghafelebashi , Meisam Razaviyayn

Decentralized learning (DL) is an emerging paradigm of collaborative machine learning that enables nodes in a network to train models collectively without sharing their raw data or relying on a central server. This paper introduces Zip-DL,…

Decentralized learning with private data is a central problem in machine learning. We propose a novel distillation-based decentralized learning technique that allows multiple agents with private non-iid data to learn from each other,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler , Nolan Miller , Gus Kristiansen , Max Vladymyrov

We revisit the problem of federated learning (FL) with private data from people who do not trust the server or other silos/clients. In this context, every silo (e.g. hospital) has data from several people (e.g. patients) and needs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Changyu Gao , Andrew Lowy , Xingyu Zhou , Stephen J. Wright