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How to train a machine learning model while keeping the data private and secure? We present CodedPrivateML, a fast and scalable approach to this critical problem. CodedPrivateML keeps both the data and the model information-theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

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

This paper describes a hierarchical learning strategy for generating sparse representations of multivariate datasets. The hierarchy arises from approximation spaces considered at successively finer scales. A detailed analysis of stability,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-23 Prashant Shekhar , Abani Patra

Leveraging transfer learning has recently been shown to be an effective strategy for training large models with Differential Privacy (DP). Moreover, somewhat surprisingly, recent works have found that privately training just the last layer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Harsh Mehta , Walid Krichene , Abhradeep Thakurta , Alexey Kurakin , Ashok Cutkosky

In this work, we study the transfer learning problem under high-dimensional generalized linear models (GLMs), which aim to improve the fit on target data by borrowing information from useful source data. Given which sources to transfer, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-19 Ye Tian , Yang Feng

Peer-to-peer knowledge transfer in distributed environments has emerged as a promising method since it could accelerate learning and improve team-wide performance without relying on pre-trained teachers in deep reinforcement learning.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Zeyue Xue , Shuang Luo , Chao Wu , Pan Zhou , Kaigui Bian , Wei Du

Previous research on word embeddings has shown that sparse representations, which can be either learned on top of existing dense embeddings or obtained through model constraints during training time, have the benefit of increased…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Valentin Trifonov , Octavian-Eugen Ganea , Anna Potapenko , Thomas Hofmann

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a rigorous framework for releasing statistics while protecting individual information present in a dataset. Although substantial progress has been made on differentially private linear regression, existing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Getoar Sopa , Marco Avella Medina , Cynthia Rush

In this work we address the practical challenges of training machine learning models on privacy-sensitive datasets by introducing a modular approach that minimizes changes to training algorithms, provides a variety of configuration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 H. Brendan McMahan , Galen Andrew , Ulfar Erlingsson , Steve Chien , Ilya Mironov , Nicolas Papernot , Peter Kairouz

Transfer learning is a powerful paradigm for leveraging knowledge from source domains to enhance learning in a target domain. However, traditional transfer learning approaches often focus on scalar or multivariate data within Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Kaicheng Zhang , Sinian Zhang , Doudou Zhou , Yidong Zhou

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

Deep learning has achieved great success in many applications. However, its deployment in practice has been hurdled by two issues: the privacy of data that has to be aggregated centrally for model training and high communication overhead…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Tien-Dung Cao , Tram Truong-Huu , Hien Tran , Khanh Tran

Distributed online learning is gaining increased traction due to its unique ability to process large-scale datasets and streaming data. To address the growing public awareness and concern on privacy protection, plenty of algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

This paper considers the problem of differentially private semi-supervised transfer and multi-task learning. The notion of \emph{membership-mapping} has been developed using measure theory basis to learn data representation via a fuzzy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Mohit Kumar

Collaborative learning through latent shared feature representations enables heterogeneous clients to train personalized models with improved performance and reduced sample complexity. Despite empirical success and extensive study, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiaochun Niu , Lili Su , Jiaming Xu , Pengkun Yang

Training neural network models with discrete (categorical or structured) latent variables can be computationally challenging, due to the need for marginalization over large or combinatorial sets. To circumvent this issue, one typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Gonçalo M. Correia , Vlad Niculae , Wilker Aziz , André F. T. Martins

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal framework for training machine learning models with individual example level privacy. In the field of deep learning, Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Harsh Mehta , Abhradeep Thakurta , Alexey Kurakin , Ashok Cutkosky

Differential privacy is a strong notion for privacy that can be used to prove formal guarantees, in terms of a privacy budget, $\epsilon$, about how much information is leaked by a mechanism. However, implementations of privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees for machine learning applications. Much recent work has been focused on developing differentially private models, however there has been a gap in other stages of the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ashly Lau , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

We present a representation for describing transition models in complex uncertain domains using relational rules. For any action, a rule selects a set of relevant objects and computes a distribution over properties of just those objects in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Victoria Xia , Zi Wang , Leslie Pack Kaelbling