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Differential privacy (DP) provides robust privacy guarantees for statistical inference, but this can lead to unreliable results and biases in downstream applications. While several noise-aware approaches have been proposed which integrate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Talal Alrawajfeh , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Honkela

For gradient-based machine learning (ML) methods commonly adopted in practice such as stochastic gradient descent, the de facto differential privacy (DP) technique is perturbing the gradients with random Gaussian noise. Data valuation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zijian Zhou , Xinyi Xu , Daniela Rus , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Collaborative training of neural networks leverages distributed data by exchanging gradient information between different clients. Although training data entirely resides with the clients, recent work shows that training data can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Daniel Scheliga , Patrick Mäder , Marco Seeland

In this paper, we present a notion of differential privacy (DP) for data that comes from different classes. Here, the class-membership is private information that needs to be protected. The proposed method is an output perturbation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Raksha Ramakrishna , Anna Scaglione , Tong Wu , Nikhil Ravi , Sean Peisert

Iterative algorithms, like gradient descent, are common tools for solving a variety of problems, such as model fitting. For this reason, there is interest in creating differentially private versions of them. However, their conversion to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Jaewoo Lee , Daniel Kifer

Differential privacy (DP) is a key technique for protecting sensitive patient data in medical deep learning (DL). As clinical models grow more data-dependent, balancing privacy with utility and fairness has become a critical challenge. This…

We derive the optimal differential privacy (DP) parameters of a mechanism that satisfies a given level of R\'enyi differential privacy (RDP). Our result is based on the joint range of two $f$-divergences that underlie the approximate and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Shahab Asoodeh , Jiachun Liao , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

We present backpropagation clipping, a novel variant of differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) for privacy-preserving deep learning. Our approach clips each trainable layer's inputs (during the forward pass) and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Timothy Stevens , Ivoline C. Ngong , David Darais , Calvin Hirsch , David Slater , Joseph P. Near

As machine learning becomes more widespread throughout society, aspects including data privacy and fairness must be carefully considered, and are crucial for deployment in highly regulated industries. Unfortunately, the application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Maria S. Esipova , Atiyeh Ashari Ghomi , Yaqiao Luo , Jesse C. Cresswell

Traditional Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) introduces statistical noise on top of gradients drawn from a Gaussian distribution to ensure privacy. This paper introduces the novel Differentially Private Block-wise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 David Zagardo

Prior work on differential privacy analysis of randomized SGD algorithms relies on composition theorems, where the implicit (unrealistic) assumption is that the internal state of the iterative algorithm is revealed to the adversary. As a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Jiayuan Ye , Reza Shokri

The availability of rich and vast data sources has greatly advanced machine learning applications in various domains. However, data with privacy concerns comes with stringent regulations that frequently prohibited data access and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

Machine unlearning has raised significant interest with the adoption of laws ensuring the ``right to be forgotten''. Researchers have provided a probabilistic notion of approximate unlearning under a similar definition of Differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Eli Chien , Haoyu Wang , Ziang Chen , Pan Li

The deployment of deep learning applications has to address the growing privacy concerns when using private and sensitive data for training. A conventional deep learning model is prone to privacy attacks that can recover the sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Di Gao , Cheng Zhuo

Deep neural networks with their large number of parameters are highly flexible learning systems. The high flexibility in such networks brings with some serious problems such as overfitting, and regularization is used to address this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-20 Beyza Ermis , Ali Taylan Cemgil

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

We show that differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) can yield poorly calibrated, overconfident deep learning models. This represents a serious issue for safety-critical applications, e.g. in medical diagnosis. We…

The combination of deep neural networks and Differential Privacy has been of increasing interest in recent years, as it offers important data protection guarantees to the individuals of the training datasets used. However, using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Osvald Frisk , Friedrich Dörmann , Christian Marius Lillelund , Christian Fischer Pedersen

By ensuring differential privacy in the learning algorithms, one can rigorously mitigate the risk of large models memorizing sensitive training data. In this paper, we study two algorithms for this purpose, i.e., DP-SGD and DP-NSGD, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Xiaodong Yang , Huishuai Zhang , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Federated learning, as a distributed architecture, shows great promise for applications in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS). In order to mitigate the privacy risks inherent in CPSS, the integration of differential privacy with federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jiayi Wan , Xiang Zhu , Fanzhen Liu , Wei Fan , Xiaolong Xu