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Many machine learning applications are based on data collected from people, such as their tastes and behaviour as well as biological traits and genetic data. Regardless of how important the application might be, one has to make sure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-11 Joonas Jälkö , Onur Dikmen , Antti Honkela

Differential privacy (DP) is a prominent method for protecting information about individuals during data analysis. Training neural networks with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) influences the model's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lea Demelius , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

Many high-stakes applications require machine learning models that protect user privacy and provide well-calibrated, accurate predictions. While Differential Privacy (DP) is the gold standard for protecting user privacy, standard DP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ossi Räisä , Stratis Markou , Matthew Ashman , Wessel P. Bruinsma , Marlon Tobaben , Antti Honkela , Richard E. Turner

In this paper, we consider differentially private classification when some features are sensitive, while the rest of the features and the label are not. We adapt the definition of differential privacy naturally to this setting. Our main…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Zeyu Shen , Anilesh Krishnaswamy , Janardhan Kulkarni , Kamesh Munagala

We explore the training of generative adversarial networks with differential privacy to anonymize image data sets. On MNIST, we numerically measure the privacy-utility trade-off using parameters from $\epsilon$-$\delta$ differential privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Justus T. C. Schwabedal , Pascal Michel , Mario S. Riontino

Large pretrained models can be privately fine-tuned to achieve performance approaching that of non-private models. A common theme in these results is the surprising observation that high-dimensional models can achieve favorable…

In domains such as health care and finance, shortage of labeled data and computational resources is a critical issue while developing machine learning algorithms. To address the issue of labeled data scarcity in training and deployment of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Otkrist Gupta , Ramesh Raskar

Standard methods for differentially private training of deep neural networks replace back-propagated mini-batch gradients with biased and noisy approximations to the gradient. These modifications to training often result in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Jaewoo Lee , Daniel Kifer

We introduce AdaMix, an adaptive differentially private algorithm for training deep neural network classifiers using both private and public image data. While pre-training language models on large public datasets has enabled strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Aditya Golatkar , Alessandro Achille , Yu-Xiang Wang , Aaron Roth , Michael Kearns , Stefano Soatto

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for training machine learning models in a distributed and collaborative manner. During training, a set of participating clients process their data stored locally, sharing only the model updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Filippo Galli , Kangsoo Jung , Sayan Biswas , Catuscia Palamidessi , Tommaso Cucinotta

Neural networks have been shown to frequently fail to learn critical safety and correctness properties purely from data, highlighting the need for training methods that directly integrate logical specifications. While adversarial training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Thomas Flinkow , Marco Casadio , Colin Kessler , Rosemary Monahan , Ekaterina Komendantskaya

Recent research in feature learning has been extended to sequence data, where each instance consists of a sequence of heterogeneous items with a variable length. However, in many real-world applications, the data exists in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Zhongfang Zhuang

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

Differential privacy (DP) has become the standard for private data analysis. Certain machine learning applications only require privacy protection for specific protected attributes. Using naive variants of differential privacy in such use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Saeed Mahloujifar , Chuan Guo , G. Edward Suh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

We continue the study of the computational complexity of differentially private PAC learning and how it is situated within the foundations of machine learning. A recent line of work uncovered a qualitative equivalence between the private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Mark Bun , Aloni Cohen , Rathin Desai

LBP is a successful hand-crafted feature descriptor in computer vision. However, in the deep learning era, deep neural networks, especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can automatically learn powerful task-aware features that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Zhuo Su , Matti Pietikäinen , Li Liu

Federated learning's poor performance in the presence of heterogeneous data remains one of the most pressing issues in the field. Personalized federated learning departs from the conventional paradigm in which all clients employ the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Mengen Luo , Ercan Engin Kuruoglu

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

Deployment of deep learning in different fields and industries is growing day by day due to its performance, which relies on the availability of data and compute. Data is often crowd-sourced and contains sensitive information about its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Tom Farrand , Fatemehsadat Mireshghallah , Sahib Singh , Andrew Trask

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