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Federated learning has attracted significant recent attention due to its applicability across a wide range of settings where data is collected and analyzed across disparate locations. In this paper, we study federated nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-12 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

We study a setting of collecting and learning from private data distributed across end users. In the shuffled model of differential privacy, the end users partially protect their data locally before sharing it, and their data is also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Tal Wagner

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…

We introduce a locally differentially private (LDP) algorithm for online federated learning that employs temporally correlated noise to improve utility while preserving privacy. To address challenges posed by the correlated noise and local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Jiaojiao Zhang , Linglingzhi Zhu , Dominik Fay , Mikael Johansson

Federated learning with differential privacy, or private federated learning, provides a strategy to train machine learning models while respecting users' privacy. However, differential privacy can disproportionately degrade the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Filip Granqvist , Rogier van Dalen , Matt Seigel

When we enforce differential privacy in machine learning, the utility-privacy trade-off is different w.r.t. each group. Gradient clipping and random noise addition disproportionately affect underrepresented and complex classes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Depeng Xu , Wei Du , Xintao Wu

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

Personalized federated learning (PFL), e.g., the renowned Ditto, strikes a balance between personalization and generalization by conducting federated learning (FL) to guide personalized learning (PL). While FL is unaffected by personalized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Xiyu Zhao , Qimei Cui , Weicai Li , Wei Ni , Ekram Hossain , Quan Z. Sheng , Xiaofeng Tao , Ping Zhang

This paper presents a personalized graph federated learning (PGFL) framework in which distributedly connected servers and their respective edge devices collaboratively learn device or cluster-specific models while maintaining the privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Francois Gauthier , Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner , Yih-Fang Huang , Anthony Kuh

Privacy preserving machine learning algorithms are crucial for learning models over user data to protect sensitive information. Motivated by this, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (SGD) algorithms for training machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Venkatadheeraj Pichapati , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Felix X. Yu , Sashank J. Reddi , Sanjiv Kumar

Training reliable deep learning models which avoid making overconfident but incorrect predictions is a longstanding challenge. This challenge is further exacerbated when learning has to be differentially private: protection provided to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Stephan Rabanser , Anvith Thudi , Abhradeep Thakurta , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Nicolas Papernot

In the modern financial system, combating money laundering is a critical challenge complicated by data privacy concerns and increasingly complex fraud transaction patterns. Although federated learning (FL) is a promising problem-solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Renuga Kanagavelu , Manjil Nepal , Ning Peiyan , Cai Kangning , Xu Jiming , Fei Gao , Yong Liu , Goh Siow Mong Rick , Qingsong Wei

Prototype-based Personalized Federated Learning (ProtoPFL) enables efficient multi-domain adaptation by communicating compact class prototypes, but directly sharing them poses privacy risks. A common defense involves per-example $\ell_2$…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yuhua Wang , Qinnan Zhang , Xiaodong Li , Huan Zhang , Yifan Sun , Wangjie Qiu , Hainan Zhang , Yongxin Tong , Zhiming Zheng

Language models are capable of memorizing detailed patterns and information, leading to a double-edged effect: they achieve impressive modeling performance on downstream tasks with the stored knowledge but also raise significant privacy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Xianzhi Li , Ran Zmigrod , Zhiqiang Ma , Xiaomo Liu , Xiaodan Zhu

Motivated by the increasing popularity and importance of large-scale training under differential privacy (DP) constraints, we study distributed gradient methods with gradient clipping, i.e., clipping applied to the gradients computed from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Sarit Khirirat , Eduard Gorbunov , Samuel Horváth , Rustem Islamov , Fakhri Karray , Peter Richtárik

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

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm for large-scale distributed learning which faces two key challenges: (i) efficient training from highly heterogeneous user data, and (ii) protecting the privacy of participating users. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Maxence Noble , Aurélien Bellet , Aymeric Dieuleveut

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized machine learning while preserving data privacy. This paper proposes a novel client selection framework that integrates differential privacy and fault tolerance. The adaptive client selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 William Marfo , Deepak K. Tosh , Shirley V. Moore

Online learning has been in the spotlight from the machine learning society for a long time. To handle massive data in Big Data era, one single learner could never efficiently finish this heavy task. Hence, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Chencheng Li , Pan Zhou

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) is widely employed in IoT applications to handle high-volume, non-iid client data while ensuring data privacy. However, heterogeneous edge devices owned by clients may impose varying degrees of resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ziru Niu , Hai Dong , A. K. Qin