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Differentially Private (DP) data release is a promising technique to disseminate data without compromising the privacy of data subjects. However the majority of prior work has focused on scenarios where a single party owns all the data. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruihan Wu , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Jiankai Sun , Tianyi Liu , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Chong Wang

Many important problems in the real world don't have unique solutions. It is thus important for machine learning models to be capable of proposing different plausible solutions with meaningful probability measures. In this work we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Di Qiu , Lok Ming Lui

We investigate the use of sparse coding and dictionary learning in the context of multitask and transfer learning. The central assumption of our learning method is that the tasks parameters are well approximated by sparse linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Andreas Maurer , Massimiliano Pontil , Bernardino Romera-Paredes

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly transformed natural language understanding and generation, but they raise privacy concerns due to potential exposure of sensitive information. Studies have highlighted the risk of information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bishnu Bhusal , Manoj Acharya , Ramneet Kaur , Colin Samplawski , Anirban Roy , Adam D. Cobb , Rohit Chadha , Susmit Jha

It is now well established that sparse signal models are well suited to restoration tasks and can effectively be learned from audio, image, and video data. Recent research has been aimed at learning discriminative sparse models instead of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-09-29 Julien Mairal , Francis Bach , Jean Ponce , Guillermo Sapiro , Andrew Zisserman

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm designed to protect data privacy. However, data heterogeneity across various clients results in catastrophic forgetting, where the model rapidly forgets previous knowledge while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Pengju Wang , Bochao Liu , Weijia Guo , Yong Li , Shiming Ge

While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

A distinguishing characteristic of federated learning is that the (local) client data could have statistical heterogeneity. This heterogeneity has motivated the design of personalized learning, where individual (personalized) models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Kaan Ozkara , Antonious M. Girgis , Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi

We present novel, computationally efficient, and differentially private algorithms for two fundamental high-dimensional learning problems: learning a multivariate Gaussian and learning a product distribution over the Boolean hypercube in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Gautam Kamath , Jerry Li , Vikrant Singhal , Jonathan Ullman

We introduce an end-to-end private deep learning framework, applied to the task of predicting 30-day readmission from electronic health records. By using differential privacy during training and homomorphic encryption during inference, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Edward Chou , Thao Nguyen , Josh Beal , Albert Haque , Li Fei-Fei

We propose a novel method for protecting trained models with a secret key so that unauthorized users without the correct key cannot get the correct inference. By taking advantage of transfer learning, the proposed method enables us to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-08 MaungMaung AprilPyone , Hitoshi Kiya

Most self-supervised learning (SSL) methods learn continuous visual representations by aligning different views of the same input, offering limited control over how information is structured across representation dimensions. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Kawtar Zaher , Ilyass Moummad , Olivier Buisson , Alexis Joly

We systematically investigate the preservation of differential privacy in functional data analysis, beginning with functional mean estimation and extending to varying coefficient model estimation. Our work introduces a distributed learning…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Gengyu Xue , Zhenhua Lin , Yi Yu

This article proposes diffusion LMS strategies for distributed estimation over adaptive networks that are able to exploit sparsity in the underlying system model. The approach relies on convex regularization, common in compressive sensing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Paolo Di Lorenzo , Ali H. Sayed

We develop a new framework for learning variational autoencoders and other deep generative models that balances generative and discriminative goals. Our framework optimizes model parameters to maximize a variational lower bound on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Gabriel Hope , Madina Abdrakhmanova , Xiaoyin Chen , Michael C. Hughes , Michael C. Hughes , Erik B. Sudderth

This paper presents a novel holistic deep learning framework that simultaneously addresses the challenges of vulnerability to input perturbations, overparametrization, and performance instability from different train-validation splits. The…

Machine learning relies on the availability of a vast amount of data for training. However, in reality, most data are scattered across different organizations and cannot be easily integrated under many legal and practical constraints. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Yang Liu , Yan Kang , Chaoping Xing , Tianjian Chen , Qiang Yang

Transfer learning is an effective technique to improve a target recommender system with the knowledge from a source domain. Existing research focuses on the recommendation performance of the target domain while ignores the privacy leakage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Guangneng Hu , Qiang Yang

Models need to be trained with privacy-preserving learning algorithms to prevent leakage of possibly sensitive information contained in their training data. However, canonical algorithms like differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yannis Cattan , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Nicolas Papernot , Abhradeep Thakurta

Leveraging on the underlying low-dimensional structure of data, low-rank and sparse modeling approaches have achieved great success in a wide range of applications. However, in many applications the data can display structures beyond simply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Zhao Kang , Xiao Lu , Yiwei Lu , Chong Peng , Zenglin Xu