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Conventional gradient-sharing approaches for federated learning (FL), such as FedAvg, rely on aggregation of local models and often face performance degradation under differential privacy (DP) mechanisms or data heterogeneity, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Hui-Po Wang , Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

Differential privacy (DP) is a rigorous notion of data privacy, used for private statistics. The canonical algorithm for differentially private mean estimation is to first clip the samples to a bounded range and then add noise to their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Gautam Kamath , Argyris Mouzakis , Matthew Regehr , Vikrant Singhal , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

Federated learning is a recent advance in privacy protection. In this context, a trusted curator aggregates parameters optimized in decentralized fashion by multiple clients. The resulting model is then distributed back to all clients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Robin C. Geyer , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Federated learning (FL) enables organizations to collaboratively train models without sharing their datasets. Despite this advantage, recent studies show that both client updates and the global model can leak private information, limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rouzbeh Behnia , Jeremiah Birrell , Arman Riasi , Reza Ebrahimi , Kaushik Dutta , Thang Hoang

Hyperparameter optimization is a ubiquitous challenge in machine learning, and the performance of a trained model depends crucially upon their effective selection. While a rich set of tools exist for this purpose, there are currently no…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-10 Shubhankar Mohapatra , Sajin Sasy , Xi He , Gautam Kamath , Om Thakkar

Federated learning (FL) aims to collaboratively train the global model in a distributed manner by sharing the model parameters from local clients to a central server, thereby potentially protecting users' private information. Nevertheless,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhe Li , Honglong Chen , Zhichen Ni , Huajie Shao

With growing concerns about user data collection, individualized privacy has emerged as a promising solution to balance protection and utility by accounting for diverse user privacy preferences. Instead of enforcing a uniform level of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lucas Lange , Ole Borchardt , Erhard Rahm

Federated Learning allows distributed entities to train a common model collaboratively without sharing their own data. Although it prevents data collection and aggregation by exchanging only parameter updates, it remains vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

Deep neural networks with their large number of parameters are highly flexible learning systems. The high flexibility in such networks brings with some serious problems such as overfitting, and regularization is used to address this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-20 Beyza Ermis , Ali Taylan Cemgil

While federated learning (FL) eliminates the transmission of raw data over a network, it is still vulnerable to privacy breaches from the communicated model parameters. Differential privacy (DP) is often employed to address such issues.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Evan Chen , Frank Po-Chen Lin , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

Differentially private (DP) transfer learning, i.e., fine-tuning a pretrained model on private data, is the current state-of-the-art approach for training large models under privacy constraints. We focus on two key hyperparameters in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Aki Rehn , Linzh Zhao , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Honkela

Collecting and training over sensitive personal data raise severe privacy concerns in personalized recommendation systems, and federated learning can potentially alleviate the problem by training models over decentralized user data.However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ruixuan Liu , Yanlin Wang , Yang Cao , Lingjuan Lyu , Weike Pan , Yun Chen , Hong Chen

Strong Differential Privacy (DP) and Optimization guarantees are two desirable properties for a method in Federated Learning (FL). However, existing algorithms do not achieve both properties at once: they either have optimal DP guarantees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Rustem Islamov , Samuel Horvath , Aurelien Lucchi , Peter Richtarik , Eduard Gorbunov

Federated learning is renowned for its efficacy in distributed model training, ensuring that users, called clients, retain data privacy by not disclosing their data to the central server that orchestrates collaborations. Most previous work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Pouya M. Ghari , Yanning Shen

Federated learning (FL) enhances privacy by keeping user data on local devices. However, emerging attacks have demonstrated that the updates shared by users during training can reveal significant information about their data. This has…

We introduce a novel differentially private algorithm for online federated learning that employs temporally correlated noise to enhance utility while ensuring privacy of continuously released models. To address challenges posed by DP noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Jiaojiao Zhang , Linglingzhi Zhu , Mikael Johansson

Federated learning (FL) takes a first step towards privacy-preserving machine learning by training models while keeping client data local. Models trained using FL may still leak private client information through model updates during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Nasser Aldaghri , Hessam Mahdavifar , Ahmad Beirami

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

In spite that Federated Learning (FL) is well known for its privacy protection when training machine learning models among distributed clients collaboratively, recent studies have pointed out that the naive FL is susceptible to gradient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Yao Fu , Yipeng Zhou , Di Wu , Shui Yu , Yonggang Wen , Chao Li