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Machine learning techniques based on neural networks are achieving remarkable results in a wide variety of domains. Often, the training of models requires large, representative datasets, which may be crowdsourced and contain sensitive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-21 Martín Abadi , Andy Chu , Ian Goodfellow , H. Brendan McMahan , Ilya Mironov , Kunal Talwar , Li Zhang

We study private prediction where differential privacy is achieved by adding noise to the outputs of a non-private model. Existing methods rely on noise proportional to the global sensitivity of the model, often resulting in sub-optimal…

This paper proposes a new distributed nonconvex stochastic optimization algorithm that can achieve privacy protection, communication efficiency and convergence simultaneously. Specifically, each node adds general privacy noises to its local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Jialong Chen , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

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

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

Traditionally, the random noise is equally injected when training with different data instances in the field of differential privacy (DP). In this paper, we first give sharper excess risk bounds of DP stochastic gradient descent (SGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yilin Kang , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Federated learning is distributed model training across several clients without disclosing raw data. Despite advancements in data privacy, risks still remain. Differential Privacy (DP) is a technique to protect sensitive data by adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tejash Varsani

Private machine learning involves addition of noise while training, resulting in lower accuracy. Intuitively, greater stability can imply greater privacy and improve this privacy-utility tradeoff. We study this role of stability in private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lauren Watson , Benedek Rozemberczki , Rik Sarkar

Continual data collection and widespread deployment of machine learning algorithms, particularly the distributed variants, have raised new privacy challenges. In a distributed machine learning scenario, the dataset is stored among several…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

Many applications of machine learning, for example in health care, would benefit from methods that can guarantee privacy of data subjects. Differential privacy (DP) has become established as a standard for protecting learning results. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-30 Mikko Heikkilä , Eemil Lagerspetz , Samuel Kaski , Kana Shimizu , Sasu Tarkoma , Antti Honkela

This paper investigates the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to protect agents' private information from potential attackers during the optimization process. Gradient tracking, an advanced technique for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

In order to both learn and protect sensitive training data, there has been a growing interest in privacy preserving machine learning methods. Differential privacy has emerged as an important measure of privacy. We are interested in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Antoine Barczewski , Amal Mawass , Jan Ramon

This article presents DDP-SA, a scalable privacy-preserving federated learning framework that jointly leverages client-side local differential privacy (LDP) and full-threshold additive secret sharing (ASS) for secure aggregation. Unlike…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wenjing Wei , Farid Nait-Abdesselam , Alla Jammine

In many real-world applications of machine learning, data are distributed across many clients and cannot leave the devices they are stored on. Furthermore, each client's data, computational resources and communication constraints may be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-02 Mrinank Sharma , Michael Hutchinson , Siddharth Swaroop , Antti Honkela , Richard E. Turner

Motivated by the increasing deployment of reinforcement learning in the real world, involving a large consumption of personal data, we introduce a differentially private (DP) policy gradient algorithm. We show that, in this setting, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Alexandre Rio , Merwan Barlier , Igor Colin

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a widely used tool for machine learning in distributed settings, where a machine learning model is trained over distributed data sources through an interactive process of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zonghao Huang , Rui Hu , Yuanxiong Guo , Eric Chan-Tin , Yanmin Gong

In this paper, we consider efficient differentially private empirical risk minimization from the viewpoint of optimization algorithms. For strongly convex and smooth objectives, we prove that gradient descent with output perturbation not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Jiaqi Zhang , Kai Zheng , Wenlong Mou , Liwei Wang

Preserving differential privacy has been well studied under centralized setting. However, it's very challenging to preserve differential privacy under multiparty setting, especially for the vertically partitioned case. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan , Xintao Wu

We address nonconvex learning problems over undirected networks. In particular, we focus on the challenge of designing an algorithm that is both communication-efficient and that guarantees the privacy of the agents' data. The first goal is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xiaoxing Ren , Yuwen Ma , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

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