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We study the relationship between two desiderata of algorithms in statistical inference and machine learning: differential privacy and robustness to adversarial data corruptions. Their conceptual similarity was first observed by Dwork and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Hilal Asi , Jonathan Ullman , Lydia Zakynthinou

In this paper, we study a privacy filter design problem for a sequence of sensor measurements whose joint probability density function (p.d.f.) depends on a private parameter. To ensure parameter privacy, we propose a filter design…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Ehsan Nekouei , Henrik Sandberg , Mikael Skoglund , Karl H. Johansson

In this paper, we develop a randomized algorithm and theory for learning a sparse model from large-scale and high-dimensional data, which is usually formulated as an empirical risk minimization problem with a sparsity-inducing regularizer.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Lijun Zhang , Tianbao Yang , Rong Jin , Zhi-Hua Zhou

In this paper, we present a differential privacy version of convex and nonconvex sparse classification approach. Based on alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) algorithm, we transform the solving of sparse problem into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-05 Puyu Wang , Hai Zhang

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) has attracted extensive attention as it can explicitly handle system constraints and achieve optimal control in a decentralized manner. However, the deployment of DMPC strategies generally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Kaixiang Zhang , Yongqiang Wang , Ziyou Song , Zhaojian Li

Mechanisms used in privacy-preserving machine learning often aim to guarantee differential privacy (DP) during model training. Practical DP-ensuring training methods use randomization when fitting model parameters to privacy-sensitive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Bogdan Kulynych , Hsiang Hsu , Carmela Troncoso , Flavio P. Calmon

Security concerns in large-scale networked environments are becoming increasingly critical. To further improve the algorithm security from the design perspective of decentralized optimization algorithms, we introduce a new measure: Privacy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Luqing Wang , Luyao Guo , Shaofu Yang , Xinli Shi

Differentially private distributed stochastic optimization has become a hot topic due to the urgent need of privacy protection in distributed stochastic optimization. In this paper, two-time scale stochastic approximation-type algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

We study the privatization of distributed learning and optimization strategies. We focus on differential privacy schemes and study their effect on performance. We show that the popular additive random perturbation scheme degrades…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

We provide the first provably joint differentially private algorithm with formal utility guarantees for the problem of user-level privacy-preserving collaborative filtering. Our algorithm is based on the Frank-Wolfe method, and it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Prateek Jain , Om Thakkar , Abhradeep Thakurta

In this brief, we present an enhanced privacy-preserving distributed estimation algorithm, referred to as the ``Double-Private Algorithm," which combines the principles of both differential privacy (DP) and cryptography. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mehdi Korki , Fatemehsadat Hosseiniamin , Hadi Zayyani , Mehdi Bekrani

Modern machine learning algorithms aim to extract fine-grained information from data to provide accurate predictions, which often conflicts with the goal of privacy protection. This paper addresses the practical and theoretical importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-17 Puyu Wang , Yunwen Lei , Yiming Ying , Ding-Xuan Zhou

We propose Noise-Augmented Privacy-Preserving Empirical Risk Minimization (NAPP-ERM) that solves ERM with differential privacy guarantees. Existing privacy-preserving ERM approaches may be subject to over-regularization with the employment…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-19 Yinan Li , Fang Liu

We introduce a new class of Frank-Wolfe algorithms for minimizing differentiable functionals over probability measures. This framework can be shown to encompass a diverse range of tasks in areas such as artificial intelligence,…

Computation · Statistics 2021-05-13 Carson Kent , Jose Blanchet , Peter Glynn

Differential privacy enables organizations to collect accurate aggregates over sensitive data with strong, rigorous guarantees on individuals' privacy. Previous work has found that under differential privacy, computing multiple correlated…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Ganzhao Yuan , Yin Yang , Zhenjie Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

This paper studies the distributed least-squares optimization problem with differential privacy requirement of local cost functions, for which two differentially private distributed solvers are proposed. The first is established on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Weijia Liu , Lei Wang , Fanghong Guo , Zhengguang Wu , Hongye Su

Pairwise learning focuses on learning tasks with pairwise loss functions, depends on pairs of training instances, and naturally fits for modeling relationships between pairs of samples. In this paper, we focus on the privacy of pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yilin Kang , Yong Liu , Jian Li , Weiping Wang

We consider the setting of publishing data without leaking sensitive information. We do so in the framework of Robust Local Differential Privacy (RLDP). This ensures privacy for all distributions of the data in an uncertainty set. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jasper Goseling , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg

As the modern world becomes increasingly digitized and interconnected, distributed signal processing has proven to be effective in processing its large volume of data. However, a main challenge limiting the broad use of distributed signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Optimization-based problems have become of great interest for signal approximation purposes, as they achieved good accuracy results while being extremely flexible and versatile. In this work, we put our focus on the context of periodic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Adrian Jarret