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It is common practice to use data containing personal information to build predictive models in the framework of empirical risk minimization (ERM). While these models can be highly accurate in prediction, sharing the results from these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-30 Spencer Giddens , Yiwang Zhou , Kevin R. Krull , Tara M. Brinkman , Peter X. K. Song , Fang Liu

This work studies the distributed empirical risk minimization (ERM) problem under differential privacy (DP) constraint. Standard distributed algorithms achieve DP typically by perturbing all local subgradients with noise, leading to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Changxin Liu , Karl H. Johansson , Yang Shi

While many solutions for privacy-preserving convex empirical risk minimization (ERM) have been developed, privacy-preserving nonconvex ERM remains a challenge. We study nonconvex ERM, which takes the form of minimizing a finite-sum of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Lingxiao Wang , Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans , Quanquan Gu

In this paper we study the differentially private Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) problem in different settings. For smooth (strongly) convex loss function with or without (non)-smooth regularization, we give algorithms that achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Di Wang , Minwei Ye , Jinhui Xu

Privacy-preserving distributed machine learning becomes increasingly important due to the recent rapid growth of data. This paper focuses on a class of regularized empirical risk minimization (ERM) machine learning problems, and develops…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

Despite intense interest and considerable effort, the current generation of neural networks suffers a significant loss of accuracy under most practically relevant privacy training regimes. One particularly challenging class of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Huanyu Zhang , Ilya Mironov , Meisam Hejazinia

Privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms are crucial for the increasingly common setting in which personal data, such as medical or financial records, are analyzed. We provide general techniques to produce privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Claire Monteleoni , Anand D. Sarwate

Traditional approaches to differential privacy assume a fixed privacy requirement $\epsilon$ for a computation, and attempt to maximize the accuracy of the computation subject to the privacy constraint. As differential privacy is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Katrina Ligett , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Bo Waggoner , Z. Steven Wu

We consider the problem of differentially private (DP) convex empirical risk minimization (ERM). While the standard DP-SGD algorithm is theoretically well-established, practical implementations often rely on shuffled gradient methods that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Shuli Jiang , Pranay Sharma , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Gauri Joshi

Differential privacy has become a cornerstone in the development of privacy-preserving learning algorithms. This work addresses optimizing differentially private kernel learning within the empirical risk minimization (ERM) framework. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Bonwoo Lee , Cheolwoo Park , Jeongyoun Ahn

Distributed differentially private learning techniques enable a large number of users to jointly learn a model without having to first centrally collect the training data. At the same time, neither the communication between the users nor…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Moritz Kirschte , Sebastian Meiser , Saman Ardalan , Esfandiar Mohammadi

With rise of machine learning (ML) and the proliferation of smart mobile devices, recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in performing ML in wireless edge networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of jointly improving data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xin Zhang , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu

Distributed machine learning has been widely studied in order to handle exploding amount of data. In this paper, we study an important yet less visited distributed learning problem where features are inherently distributed or vertically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yaochen Hu , Peng Liu , Linglong Kong , Di Niu

Traditionally, there are two models on differential privacy: the central model and the local model. The central model focuses on the machine learning model and the local model focuses on the training data. In this paper, we study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Yilin Kang , Yong Liu , Ben Niu , Xinyi Tong , Likun Zhang , Weiping Wang

In this paper, we apply machine learning to distributed private data owned by multiple data owners, entities with access to non-overlapping training datasets. We use noisy, differentially-private gradients to minimize the fitness cost of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Nan Wu , Farhad Farokhi , David Smith , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Many convex optimization problems with important applications in machine learning are formulated as empirical risk minimization (ERM). There are several examples: linear and logistic regression, LASSO, kernel regression, quantile…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Song Bian , Zhao Song , Junze Yin

This paper proposes a differentially private gradient-tracking-based distributed stochastic optimization algorithm over directed graphs. In particular, privacy noises are incorporated into each agent's state and tracking variable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Jialong Chen , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

Differential privacy provides a formal framework for releasing statistical estimators that limit how much any single observation can influence the output, by injecting calibrated random noise. We study differentially private estimation in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Joowon Lee , Guanhua Chen

Differential Privacy (DP) is an important privacy-enhancing technology for private machine learning systems. It allows to measure and bound the risk associated with an individual participation in a computation. However, it was recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Cuong Tran , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

In this paper, we initiate a systematic investigation of differentially private algorithms for convex empirical risk minimization. Various instantiations of this problem have been studied before. We provide new algorithms and matching lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Raef Bassily , Adam Smith , Abhradeep Thakurta
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