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The collection of individuals' data has become commonplace in many industries. Local differential privacy (LDP) offers a rigorous approach to preserving privacy whereby the individual privatises their data locally, allowing only their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alex Mansbridge , Gregory Barbour , Davide Piras , Michael Murray , Christopher Frye , Ilya Feige , David Barber

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…

Privacy is crucial in many applications of machine learning. Legal, ethical and societal issues restrict the sharing of sensitive data making it difficult to learn from datasets that are partitioned between many parties. One important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-21 Christina Heinze-Deml , Brian McWilliams , Nicolai Meinshausen

Differential privacy (DP) is widely employed to provide privacy protection for individuals by limiting information leakage from the aggregated data. Two well-known models of DP are the central model and the local model. The former requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yucheng Fu , Tianhao Wang

This work studies formal utility and privacy guarantees for a simple multiplicative database transformation, where the data are compressed by a random linear or affine transformation, reducing the number of data records substantially, while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-01-13 Shuheng Zhou , Katrina Ligett , Larry Wasserman

The main aim of Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) is to protect the privacy and provide security to the data used in building Machine Learning models. There are various techniques in PPML such as Secure Multi-Party Computation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Syed Imtiaz Ahamed , Vadlamani Ravi

Differentially private federated learning is crucial for maintaining privacy in distributed environments. This paper investigates the challenges of high-dimensional estimation and inference under the constraints of differential privacy.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-26 Zhe Zhang , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang

We consider a federated data analytics problem in which a server coordinates the collaborative data analysis of multiple users with privacy concerns and limited communication capability. The commonly adopted compression schemes introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Richeng Jin , Zhonggen Su , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Tony Quek , Huaiyu Dai

Privacy has become a major concern in machine learning. In fact, the federated learning is motivated by the privacy concern as it does not allow to transmit the private data but only intermediate updates. However, federated learning does…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Katrine Tjell , Rafal Wisniewski , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

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

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

With increasing usage of deep learning algorithms in many application, new research questions related to privacy and adversarial attacks are emerging. However, the deep learning algorithm improvement needs more and more data to be shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Amit Chaulwar

In recent years, differential privacy has emerged as the de facto standard for sharing statistics of datasets while limiting the disclosure of private information about the involved individuals. This is achieved by randomly perturbing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Aras Selvi , Huikang Liu , Wolfram Wiesemann

Differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous privacy guarantees on individual's data while also allowing for accurate statistics to be conducted on the overall, sensitive dataset. To design a private system, first private algorithms must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mark Cesar , Ryan Rogers

Differentially private distributed mean estimation (DP-DME) is a fundamental building block in privacy-preserving federated learning, where a central server estimates the mean of $d$-dimensional vectors held by $n$ users while ensuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Sajani Vithana , Viveck R. Cadambe , Flavio P. Calmon , Haewon Jeong

We consider the problem of secret protection, in which a business or organization wishes to train a model on their own data, while attempting to not leak secrets potentially contained in that data via the model. The standard method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Arun Ganesh , Brendan McMahan , Milad Nasr , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

In this paper, we propose a method for privacy-preserving federated learning that uses randomly selected model parameters to update global models. High-quality deep neural networks (DNN) models require a huge amount of training data in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hiroto Sawada , Shoko Imaizumi , Hitoshi Kiya

Differential privacy is the leading mathematical framework for privacy protection, providing a probabilistic guarantee that safeguards individuals' private information when publishing statistics from a dataset. This guarantee is achieved by…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-19 Yuki Ohnishi , Jordan Awan

With the growing adoption of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms, such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), training or fine-tuning models on private datasets has become increasingly prevalent. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Hong Guan , Lei Yu , Lixi Zhou , Li Xiong , Kanchan Chowdhury , Lulu Xie , Xusheng Xiao , Jia Zou

Machine learning is promising, but it often needs to process vast amounts of sensitive data which raises concerns about privacy. In this white-paper, we introduce Substra, a distributed framework for privacy-preserving, traceable and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Mathieu N Galtier , Camille Marini