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The iterative nature of the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm presents a challenge for privacy-preserving estimation, as each iteration increases the amount of noise needed. We propose a practical private EM algorithm that overcomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mijung Park , Jimmy Foulds , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Max Welling

K-means is an effective clustering technique used to separate similar data into groups based on initial centroids of clusters. In this paper, Normalization based K-means clustering algorithm(N-K means) is proposed. Proposed N-K means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Deepali Virmani , Shweta Taneja , Geetika Malhotra

Quantum computing offers unparalleled processing power but raises significant data privacy challenges. Quantum Differential Privacy (QDP) leverages inherent quantum noise to safeguard privacy, surpassing traditional DP. This paper develops…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Baobao Song , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Tianqing Zhu , Gang Li

Recent spectral clustering methods are a propular and powerful technique for data clustering. These methods need to solve the eigenproblem whose computational complexity is $O(n^3)$, where $n$ is the number of data samples. In this paper, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-11-26 Chunjing Xu , Jianzhuang Liu , Xiaoou Tang

WaveCluster is an important family of grid-based clustering algorithms that are capable of finding clusters of arbitrary shapes. In this paper, we investigate techniques to perform WaveCluster while ensuring differential privacy. Our goal…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-08-04 Ling Chen , Ting Yu , Rada Chirkova

In collaborative learning (CL), multiple parties jointly train a machine learning model on their private datasets. However, data can not be shared directly due to privacy concerns. To ensure input confidentiality, cryptographic techniques,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Francesco Capano , Jonas Böhler , Benjamin Weggenmann

When designing clustering algorithms, the choice of initial centers is crucial for the quality of the learned clusters. In this paper, we develop a new initialization scheme, called HST initialization, for the $k$-median problem in the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li , Xiaoyun Li

Differentially private (DP) decentralized Federated Learning (FL) allows local users to collaborate without sharing their data with a central server. However, accurately quantifying the privacy budget of private FL algorithms is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Buxin Su , Chendi Wang , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

In this paper, to effectively prevent information leakage, we propose a novel framework based on the concept of differential privacy (DP), in which artificial noises are added to the parameters at the clients side before aggregating,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Howard H. Yang , Farokhi Farhad , Shi Jin , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Correlation clustering is a widely used technique in unsupervised machine learning. Motivated by applications where individual privacy is a concern, we initiate the study of differentially private correlation clustering. We propose an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Mark Bun , Marek Eliáš , Janardhan Kulkarni

Clustering is a separation of data into groups of similar objects. Every group called cluster consists of objects that are similar to one another and dissimilar to objects of other groups. In this paper, the K-Means algorithm is implemented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-04-03 P. Ashok , G. M Kadhar Nawaz , E. Elayaraja , V. Vadivel

Learning often involves sensitive data and as such, privacy preserving extensions to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and other machine learning algorithms have been developed using the definitions of Differential Privacy (DP). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Friedrich Dörmann , Osvald Frisk , Lars Nørvang Andersen , Christian Fischer Pedersen

In this work, we aim to solve a practical use-case of unsupervised clustering which has applications in predictive maintenance in the energy operations sector using quantum computers. Using only cloud access to quantum computers, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Stephen DiAdamo , Corey O'Meara , Giorgio Cortiana , Juan Bernabé-Moreno

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

The privacy concern in federated clustering has attracted considerable attention in past decades. Many privacy-preserving clustering algorithms leverage cryptographic techniques like homomorphic encryption or secure multiparty computation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Qiongxiu Li , Lixia Luo

Clustering algorithms have long been the topic of research, representing the more popular side of unsupervised learning. Since clustering analysis is one of the best ways to find some clarity and structure within raw data, this paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Naitik Gada

In the task of differentially private (DP) continual counting, we receive a stream of increments and our goal is to output an approximate running total of these increments, without revealing too much about any specific increment. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , H. Brendan McMahan , Krishna Pillutla , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

This paper introduces k-splits, an improved hierarchical algorithm based on k-means to cluster data without prior knowledge of the number of clusters. K-splits starts from a small number of clusters and uses the most significant data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Seyed Omid Mohammadi , Ahmad Kalhor , Hossein Bodaghi

Federated clustering, an integral aspect of federated machine learning, enables multiple data sources to collaboratively cluster their data, maintaining decentralization and preserving privacy. In this paper, we introduce a novel federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Patrick Holzer , Tania Jacob , Shubham Kavane

Density peaks clustering has become a nova of clustering algorithm because of its simplicity and practicality. However, there is one main drawback: it is time-consuming due to its high computational complexity. Herein, a density peaks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-21 Yunxiao Shan , Shu Li , Fuxiang Li , Yuxin Cui , Shuai Li , Ming Zhou , Xiang Li