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In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

Deep Learning techniques have achieved remarkable results in many domains. Often, training deep learning models requires large datasets, which may require sensitive information to be uploaded to the cloud to accelerate training. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Chun-Hsien Yu , Chun-Nan Chou , Emily Chang

Privacy preserving multi-party computation has many applications in areas such as medicine and online advertisements. In this work, we propose a framework for distributed, secure machine learning among untrusted individuals. The framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yunhui Long , Tanmay Gangwani , Haris Mughees , Carl Gunter

The vast storage capacity and computational power of cloud servers have led to the widespread outsourcing of machine learning inference services. While offering significant operational benefits, this practice also introduces privacy risks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shuai Yuan , Hongwei Li , Xinyuan Qian , Guowen Xu

Decision tree (and its extensions such as Gradient Boosting Decision Trees and Random Forest) is a widely used machine learning algorithm, due to its practical effectiveness and model interpretability. With the emergence of big data, there…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Qi Meng , Guolin Ke , Taifeng Wang , Wei Chen , Qiwei Ye , Zhi-Ming Ma , Tie-Yan Liu

Privacy-preserving deep learning is crucial for deploying deep neural network based solutions, especially when the model works on data that contains sensitive information. Most privacy-preserving methods lead to undesirable performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Lichao Sun , Yingbo Zhou , Ji Wang , Jia Li , Richard Sochar , Philip S. Yu , Caiming Xiong

How to train a machine learning model while keeping the data private and secure? We present CodedPrivateML, a fast and scalable approach to this critical problem. CodedPrivateML keeps both the data and the model information-theoretically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

In machine learning, boosting is one of the most popular methods that designed to combine multiple base learners to a superior one. The well-known Boosted Decision Tree classifier, has been widely adopted in many areas. In the big data era,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Sen Wang , J. Morris Chang

While normalizing flows for continuous data have been extensively researched, flows for discrete data have only recently been explored. These prior models, however, suffer from limitations that are distinct from those of continuous flows.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Mai Elkady , Jim Lim , David I. Inouye

Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMC) allows parties with similar background to compute results upon their private data, minimizing the threat of disclosure. The exponential increase in sensitive data that needs to be passed upon networked…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-08-10 Dr. Durgesh Kumar Mishra , Neha Koria , Nikhil Kapoor , Ravish Bahety

This paper proposes a novel non-intrusive system failure prediction technique using available information from developers and minimal information from raw logs (rather than mining entire logs) but keeping the data entirely private with the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Dibakar Das , Vikram Seshasai , Vineet Sudhir Bhat , Pushkal Juneja , Jyotsna Bapat , Debabrata Das

Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (GBDTs) have become very successful in recent years, with many awards in machine learning and data mining competitions. There have been several recent studies on how to train GBDTs in the federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Qinbin Li , Zeyi Wen , Bingsheng He

Learning a privacy-preserving model from sensitive data which are distributed across multiple devices is an increasingly important problem. The problem is often formulated in the federated learning context, with the aim of learning a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Matthew Ashman , Siddharth Swaroop , Richard E. Turner , Antti Honkela

Secure multiparty computation (MPC) allows data owners to train machine learning models on combined data while keeping the underlying training data private. The MPC threat model either considers an adversary who passively corrupts some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Matthew Jagielski , Daniel Escudero , Rahul Rachuri , Peter Scholl

In this paper, we outline a way to deploy a privacy-preserving protocol for multiparty Randomized Controlled Trials on the scale of 500 million rows of data and more than a billion gates. Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are widely used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Mahnush Movahedi , Benjamin M. Case , Andrew Knox , James Honaker , Li Li , Yiming Paul Li , Sanjay Saravanan , Shubho Sengupta , Erik Taubeneck

Federated learning is distributed model training across several clients without disclosing raw data. Despite advancements in data privacy, risks still remain. Differential Privacy (DP) is a technique to protect sensitive data by adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tejash Varsani

We study a pitfall in the typical workflow for differentially private machine learning. The use of differentially private learning algorithms in a "drop-in" fashion -- without accounting for the impact of differential privacy (DP) noise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Wenxuan Bao , Luke A. Bauer , Vincent Bindschaedler

Random forests are a popular method for classification and regression due to their versatility. However, this flexibility can come at the cost of user privacy, since training random forests requires multiple data queries, often on small,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Shorya Consul , Sinead A. Williamson

Decision tree learning is a widely used approach in machine learning, favoured in applications that require concise and interpretable models. Heuristic methods are traditionally used to quickly produce models with reasonably high accuracy.…

Federated Learning has emerged as a privacy-oriented alternative to centralized Machine Learning, enabling collaborative model training without direct data sharing. While extensively studied for neural networks, the security and privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Marco Di Gennaro , Giovanni De Lucia , Stefano Longari , Stefano Zanero , Michele Carminati