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Outsourcing deep neural networks (DNNs) inference tasks to an untrusted cloud raises data privacy and integrity concerns. While there are many techniques to ensure privacy and integrity for polynomial-based computations, DNNs involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ramy E. Ali , Jinhyun So , A. Salman Avestimehr

We consider a sequential setting in which a single dataset of individuals is used to perform adaptively-chosen analyses, while ensuring that the differential privacy loss of each participant does not exceed a pre-specified privacy budget.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Vitaly Feldman , Tijana Zrnic

Pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) are an integral part of modern AI that have led to breakthrough performances in complex AI tasks. Major AI companies with expensive infrastructures are able to develop and train these large models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Rouzbeh Behnia , Mohamamdreza Ebrahimi , Jason Pacheco , Balaji Padmanabhan

CPU-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) and differential privacy (DP) have gained wide applications for private inference. Due to high inference latency in TEEs, researchers use partition-based approaches that offload linear model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Honglan Yu , Yibin Wang , Feifei Dai , Dong Liu , Haihui Fan , Xiaoyan Gu

ReLU activations are the main bottleneck in Private Inference that is based on ResNet networks. This is because they incur significant inference latency. Reducing ReLU count is a discrete optimization problem, and there are two common ways…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vlad Rakhlin , Amir Jevnisek , Shai Avidan

Auditing mechanisms for differential privacy use probabilistic means to empirically estimate the privacy level of an algorithm. For private machine learning, existing auditing mechanisms are tight: the empirical privacy estimate (nearly)…

Many Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices rely on cloud computation resources to perform machine learning inferences. This is expensive and may raise privacy concerns for users. Consumers of these devices often have hardware such as gaming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Han Zhang , Zifan Wang , Mihir Dhamankar , Matt Fredrikson , Yuvraj Agarwal

In many practical applications of differential privacy, practitioners seek to provide the best privacy guarantees subject to a target level of accuracy. A recent line of work by Ligett et al. '17 and Whitehouse et al. '22 has developed such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ryan Rogers , Gennady Samorodnitsky , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Aaditya Ramdas

Structured pruning is essential for efficient deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs). The varying sensitivity of LLM sub-blocks to pruning necessitates the identification of optimal non-uniformly pruned models. Existing methods evaluate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Prajna G. Malettira , Manish Nagaraj , Arjun Roy , Shubham Negi , Kaushik Roy

Deep learning techniques have achieved remarkable performance in wide-ranging tasks. However, when trained on privacy-sensitive datasets, the model parameters may expose private information in training data. Prior attempts for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Wenxiao Wang , Tianhao Wang , Lun Wang , Nanqing Luo , Pan Zhou , Dawn Song , Ruoxi Jia

Collaborative inference in next-generation networks can enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, including autonomous driving, personal identification, and activity classification. This method involves a three-stage process: a)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea Goldsmith , Vincent Poor

Machine learning models are prone to memorizing sensitive data, making them vulnerable to membership inference attacks in which an adversary aims to guess if an input sample was used to train the model. In this paper, we show that prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Liwei Song , Prateek Mittal

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

This paper presents a differentially private algorithm for linear regression learning in a decentralized fashion. Under this algorithm, privacy budget is theoretically derived, in addition to that the solution error is shown to be bounded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-17 Yang Liu , Xiong Zhang , Shuqi Qin , Xiaoping Lei

Machine learning models have recently enjoyed a significant increase in size and popularity. However, this growth has created concerns about dataset privacy. To counteract data leakage, various privacy frameworks guarantee that the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Coleman DuPlessie , Aidan Gao

The increasing reliance on human preference feedback to judge AI-generated pseudo labels has created a pressing need for principled, budget-conscious data acquisition strategies. We address the crucial question of how to optimally allocate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-13 Zihan Dong , Xiaotian Hou , Ruijia Wu , Linjun Zhang

In recent years, machine learning techniques utilizing large-scale datasets have achieved remarkable performance. Differential privacy, by means of adding noise, provides strong privacy guarantees for such learning algorithms. The cost of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Rakshit Naidu , Harshita Diddee , Ajinkya Mulay , Aleti Vardhan , Krithika Ramesh , Ahmed Zamzam

Data exploration systems that provide differential privacy must manage a privacy budget that measures the amount of privacy lost across multiple queries. One effective strategy to manage the privacy budget is to compute a one-time private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Pratiksha Thaker , Mihai Budiu , Parikshit Gopalan , Udi Wieder , Matei Zaharia

Machine Learning models thrive on vast datasets, continuously adapting to provide accurate predictions and recommendations. However, in an era dominated by privacy concerns, Machine Unlearning emerges as a transformative approach, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Robert Dilworth

This paper considers the generation of prediction intervals (PIs) by neural networks for quantifying uncertainty in regression tasks. It is axiomatic that high-quality PIs should be as narrow as possible, whilst capturing a specified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-10 Tim Pearce , Mohamed Zaki , Alexandra Brintrup , Andy Neely