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Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm designed to address the challenge of data silos, attracting considerable attention. However, FL encounters persistent issues related to fairness and data privacy. To tackle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Huifa Li , Tong Cheng , Zhili Chen

Federated learning has emerged as an attractive approach to protect data privacy by eliminating the need for sharing clients' data while reducing communication costs compared with centralized machine learning algorithms. However, recent…

Group fairness ensures that the outcome of machine learning (ML) based decision making systems are not biased towards a certain group of people defined by a sensitive attribute such as gender or ethnicity. Achieving group fairness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Sikha Pentyala , Nicola Neophytou , Anderson Nascimento , Martine De Cock , Golnoosh Farnadi

Machine learning models have shone in a variety of domains and attracted increasing attention from both the security and the privacy communities. One important yet worrying question is: Will training models under the differential privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuan Zhang , Zhiqi Bu

Learning a privacy-preserving model from sensitive data which are distributed across multiple devices is an increasingly important problem. The problem is often formulated in the federated learning context, with the aim of learning a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Matthew Ashman , Siddharth Swaroop , Richard E. Turner , Antti Honkela

Auditing mechanisms for differential privacy use probabilistic means to empirically estimate the privacy level of an algorithm. For private machine learning, existing auditing mechanisms are tight: the empirical privacy estimate (nearly)…

While significant progress has been made in conventional fairness-aware machine learning (ML) and differentially private ML (DPML), the fairness of privacy protection across groups remains underexplored. Existing studies have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhi Yang , Changwu Huang , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

Recent works have shown that selecting an optimal model architecture suited to the differential privacy setting is necessary to achieve the best possible utility for a given privacy budget using differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Anderson Santana de Oliveira , Caelin Kaplan , Khawla Mallat , Tanmay Chakraborty

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel privacy-protection distributed machine learning paradigm that guarantees user privacy and prevents the risk of data leakage due to the advantage of the client's local training. Researchers have struggled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Kangkang Sun , Xiaojin Zhang , Xi Lin , Gaolei Li , Jing Wang , Jianhua Li

The worldwide adoption of machine learning (ML) and deep learning models, particularly in critical sectors, such as healthcare and finance, presents substantial challenges in maintaining individual privacy and fairness. These two elements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mengmeng Yang , Ming Ding , Youyang Qu , Wei Ni , David Smith , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

This study examines a resource-sharing problem involving multiple parties that agree to use a set of capacities together. We start with modeling the whole problem as a mathematical program, where all parties are required to exchange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Utku Karaca , Nursen Aydin , Sinan Yildirim , S. Ilker Birbil

Differential privacy (DP) is a prominent method for protecting information about individuals during data analysis. Training neural networks with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) influences the model's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lea Demelius , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion that restricts the privacy leakage of an algorithm when running on sensitive data, in which privacy-utility trade-off is one of the central problems in private data analysis. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bo Li , Wei Wang , Peng Ye

Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for privacy-preserving data analysis. Changing the hyperparameters of a differentially private algorithm allows one to trade off privacy and utility in a principled way. Quantifying this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Brendan Avent , Javier Gonzalez , Tom Diethe , Andrei Paleyes , Borja Balle

Distributed optimization and learning has recently garnered great attention due to its wide applications in sensor networks, smart grids, machine learning, and so forth. Despite rapid development, existing distributed optimization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

Motivated by the increasing deployment of reinforcement learning in the real world, involving a large consumption of personal data, we introduce a differentially private (DP) policy gradient algorithm. We show that, in this setting, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Alexandre Rio , Merwan Barlier , Igor Colin

A critical concern in data-driven processes is to build models whose outcomes do not discriminate against some demographic groups, including gender, ethnicity, or age. To ensure non-discrimination in learning tasks, knowledge of the group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Cuong Tran , Keyu Zhu , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Deep learning's unprecedented success raises several ethical concerns ranging from biased predictions to data privacy. Researchers tackle these issues by introducing fairness metrics, or federated learning, or differential privacy. A first,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Manisha Padala , Sankarshan Damle , Sujit Gujar

We develop theory for using heuristics to solve computationally hard problems in differential privacy. Heuristic approaches have enjoyed tremendous success in machine learning, for which performance can be empirically evaluated. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu

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…