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Mechanisms used in privacy-preserving machine learning often aim to guarantee differential privacy (DP) during model training. Practical DP-ensuring training methods use randomization when fitting model parameters to privacy-sensitive data…

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Iterative clustering algorithms help us to learn the insights behind the data. Unfortunately, this may allow adversaries to infer the privacy of individuals with some background knowledge. In the worst case, the adversaries know the…

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In this paper, we aim to understand the generalization properties of generative adversarial networks (GANs) from a new perspective of privacy protection. Theoretically, we prove that a differentially private learning algorithm used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Bingzhe Wu , Shiwan Zhao , ChaoChao Chen , Haoyang Xu , Li Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Guangyu Sun , Jun Zhou

Models need to be trained with privacy-preserving learning algorithms to prevent leakage of possibly sensitive information contained in their training data. However, canonical algorithms like differentially private stochastic gradient…

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Differential privacy is a popular privacy model within the research community because of the strong privacy guarantee it offers, namely that the presence or absence of any individual in a data set does not significantly influence the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Jordi Soria-Comas , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , David Megías

The ubiquity of distributed machine learning (ML) in sensitive public domain applications calls for algorithms that protect data privacy, while being robust to faults and adversarial behaviors. Although privacy and robustness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , Nirupam Gupta , Rafael Pinot , John Stephan

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard of privacy preservation due to its strong protection and sound mathematical foundation, which is widely adopted in different applications such as big data analysis, graph data…

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We derive information-theoretic generalization bounds for supervised learning algorithms based on the information contained in predictions rather than in the output of the training algorithm. These bounds improve over the existing…

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Training machine learning models based on neural networks requires large datasets, which may contain sensitive information. The models, however, should not expose private information from these datasets. Differentially private SGD [DP-SGD]…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

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

Motivated by settings in which predictive models may be required to be non-discriminatory with respect to certain attributes (such as race), but even collecting the sensitive attribute may be forbidden or restricted, we initiate the study…

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Large data collections required for the training of neural networks often contain sensitive information such as the medical histories of patients, and the privacy of the training data must be preserved. In this paper, we introduce a dropout…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-06 Beyza Ermis , Ali Taylan Cemgil

Nowadays, machine learning models and applications have become increasingly pervasive. With this rapid increase in the development and employment of machine learning models, a concern regarding privacy has risen. Thus, there is a legitimate…

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The popularity of federated learning comes from the possibility of better scalability and the ability for participants to keep control of their data, improving data security and sovereignty. Unfortunately, sharing model updates also creates…

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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

Consider updates arriving online in which the $t$th input is $(i_t,d_t)$, where $i_t$'s are thought of as IDs of users. Informally, a randomized function $f$ is {\em differentially private} with respect to the IDs if the probability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-09-09 Darakhshan Mir , S. Muthukrishnan , Aleksandar Nikolov , Rebecca N. Wright

Differential Privacy has become a widely popular method for data protection in machine learning, especially since it allows formulating strict mathematical privacy guarantees. This survey provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lea Demelius , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

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…

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The widespread adoption of machine learning necessitates robust privacy protection alongside algorithmic resilience. While Local Differential Privacy (LDP) provides foundational guarantees, sophisticated adversaries with prior knowledge…

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