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Local differential privacy (LDP) is a variant of differential privacy (DP) that avoids the need for a trusted central curator, at the cost of a worse trade-off between privacy and utility. The shuffle model is a way to provide greater…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mireya Jurado , Ramon G. Gonze , Mário S. Alvim , Catuscia Palamidessi

While federated learning (FL) eliminates the transmission of raw data over a network, it is still vulnerable to privacy breaches from the communicated model parameters. Differential privacy (DP) is often employed to address such issues.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Evan Chen , Frank Po-Chen Lin , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

In this paper, we revisit the problem of using in-distribution public data to improve the privacy/utility trade-offs for differentially private (DP) model training. (Here, public data refers to auxiliary data sets that have no privacy…

In this paper, we propose a Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Push with Compressed communication (termed DP-CSGP) for decentralized learning over directed graphs. Different from existing works, the proposed algorithm is designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zehan Zhu , Heng Zhao , Yan Huang , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Shouling Ji , Jinming Xu

In this paper, we study the problem of publishing a stream of real-valued data satisfying differential privacy (DP). One major challenge is that the maximal possible value can be quite large; thus it is necessary to estimate a threshold so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Tianhao Wang , Joann Qiongna Chen , Zhikun Zhang , Dong Su , Yueqiang Cheng , Zhou Li , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Differential privacy (DP) is the standard for privacy-preserving analysis, and introduces a fundamental trade-off between privacy guarantees and model performance. Selecting the optimal balance is a critical challenge that can be framed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yaohong Yang , Aki Rehn , Sammie Katt , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion that restricts the privacy leakage of an algorithm when running on sensitive data, in which privacy-utility trade-off is one of the central problems in private data analysis. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bo Li , Wei Wang , Peng Ye

Large-scale machine learning systems often involve data distributed across a collection of users. Federated learning algorithms leverage this structure by communicating model updates to a central server, rather than entire datasets. In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-19 Alberto Bietti , Chen-Yu Wei , Miroslav Dudík , John Langford , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Automated decision systems are increasingly used to make consequential decisions in people's lives. Due to the sensitivity of the manipulated data as well as the resulting decisions, several ethical concerns need to be addressed for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Karima Makhlouf , Heber H. Arcolezi , Sami Zhioua , Ghassen Ben Brahim , Catuscia Palamidessi

Graphs are the dominant formalism for modeling multi-agent systems. The algebraic connectivity of a graph is particularly important because it provides the convergence rates of consensus algorithms that underlie many multi-agent control and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Bo Chen , Calvin Hawkins , Kasra Yazdani , Matthew Hale

Decentralized stochastic optimization is the basic building block of modern collaborative machine learning, distributed estimation and control, and large-scale sensing. Since involved data usually contain sensitive information like user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yongqiang Wang , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the straggler problem in decentralized learning over a logical ring while preserving user data privacy. Especially, we extend the recently proposed framework of differential privacy (DP) amplification by decentralization by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Yauhen Yakimenka , Chung-Wei Weng , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

In this work, we carry out the first, in-depth, privacy analysis of Decentralized Learning -- a collaborative machine learning framework aimed at addressing the main limitations of federated learning. We introduce a suite of novel attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Dario Pasquini , Mathilde Raynal , Carmela Troncoso

Privacy and algorithmic fairness have become two central issues in modern machine learning. Although each has separately emerged as a rapidly growing research area, their joint effect remains comparatively under-explored. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-26 Gengyu Xue , Yi Yu

As an efficient neural network model for graph data, graph neural networks (GNNs) recently find successful applications for various wireless optimization problems. Given that the inference stage of GNNs can be naturally implemented in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mengyuan Lee , Guanding Yu , Huaiyu Dai

Federated learning (FL) takes a first step towards privacy-preserving machine learning by training models while keeping client data local. Models trained using FL may still leak private client information through model updates during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Nasser Aldaghri , Hessam Mahdavifar , Ahmad Beirami

We consider the fully decentralized machine learning scenario where many users with personal datasets collaborate to learn models through local peer-to-peer exchanges, without a central coordinator. We propose to train personalized models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Valentina Zantedeschi , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi

LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has been widely studied to estimate statistics of personal data (e.g., distribution underlying the data) while protecting users' privacy. Although LDP does not require a trusted third party, it regards all…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Takao Murakami , Yusuke Kawamoto

Currently, graph learning models are indispensable tools to help researchers explore graph-structured data. In academia, using sufficient training data to optimize a graph model on a single device is a typical approach for training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Haoran Yang , Xiangyu Zhao , Muyang Li , Hongxu Chen , Guandong Xu

Differentially private (DP) machine learning algorithms incur many sources of randomness, such as random initialization, random batch subsampling, and shuffling. However, such randomness is difficult to take into account when proving…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-02 Chendi Wang , Buxin Su , Jiayuan Ye , Reza Shokri , Weijie J. Su