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Machine learning (ML) models have been shown to leak private information from their training datasets. Differential Privacy (DP), typically implemented through the differential private stochastic gradient descent algorithm (DP-SGD), has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Dariush Wahdany , Matthew Jagielski , Adam Dziedzic , Franziska Boenisch

We introduce a novel differentially private algorithm for online federated learning that employs temporally correlated noise to enhance utility while ensuring privacy of continuously released models. To address challenges posed by DP noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Jiaojiao Zhang , Linglingzhi Zhu , Mikael Johansson

How can agents exchange information to learn while protecting privacy? Healthcare centers collaborating on clinical trials must balance knowledge sharing with safeguarding sensitive patient data. We address this challenge by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

We propose an adaptive (stochastic) gradient perturbation method for differentially private empirical risk minimization. At each iteration, the random noise added to the gradient is optimally adapted to the stepsize; we name this process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Xiaoxia Wu , Lingxiao Wang , Irina Cristali , Quanquan Gu , Rebecca Willett

Federated learning (FL) offers an innovative paradigm for collaborative model training across decentralized devices, such as smartphones, balancing enhanced predictive performance with the protection of user privacy in sensitive areas like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Mohammad Hasan Narimani , Mostafa Tavassolipour

Decentralized min-max optimization allows multi-agent systems to collaboratively solve global min-max optimization problems by facilitating the exchange of model updates among neighboring agents, eliminating the need for a central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yueyang Quan , Chang Wang , Shengjie Zhai , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu

This paper addresses the challenge of balancing learner data privacy with the use of data in learning analytics (LA) by proposing a novel framework by applying Differential Privacy (DP). The need for more robust privacy protection keeps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qinyi Liu , Ronas Shakya , Mohammad Khalil , Jelena Jovanovic

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training through model parameter exchanges instead of raw data. To avoid potential inference attacks from exchanged parameters, differential privacy (DP) offers rigorous guarantee against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shu Hong , Xiaojun Lin , Lingjie Duan

Recent developments have underscored the critical role of \textit{differential privacy} (DP) in safeguarding individual data for training machine learning models. However, integrating DP oftentimes incurs significant model performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zihao Wang , Rui Zhu , Dongruo Zhou , Zhikun Zhang , John Mitchell , Haixu Tang , XiaoFeng Wang

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

Motivated by the increasing deployment of reinforcement learning in the real world, involving a large consumption of personal data, we introduce a differentially private (DP) policy gradient algorithm. We show that, in this setting, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Alexandre Rio , Merwan Barlier , Igor Colin

Federated learning is a promising framework for learning over decentralized data spanning multiple regions. This approach avoids expensive central training data aggregation cost and can improve privacy because distributed sites do not have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Beomyeol Jeon , S. M. Ferdous , Muntasir Raihan Rahman , Anwar Walid

The powerful cooperation of federated learning (FL) and differential privacy~(DP) provides a promising paradigm for the large-scale private clients. However, existing analyses in FL-DP mostly rely on the composition theorem and cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yan Sun , Qixin Zhang , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Differential privacy (DP) is the prevailing technique for protecting user data in machine learning models. However, deficits to this framework include a lack of clarity for selecting the privacy budget $\epsilon$ and a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Tyler LeBlond , Joseph Munoz , Fred Lu , Maya Fuchs , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Brian Testa

Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By constructing random local aggregators, we propose a framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hanshen Xiao , Yu Ye , Srinivas Devadas

Machine Learning (ML) models integrated with in-situ sensing offer transformative solutions for defect detection in Additive Manufacturing (AM), but this integration brings critical challenges in safeguarding sensitive data, such as part…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Fardin Jalil Piran , Prathyush P. Poduval , Hamza Errahmouni Barkam , Mohsen Imani , Farhad Imani

Federated learning (FL) enhances privacy by keeping user data on local devices. However, emerging attacks have demonstrated that the updates shared by users during training can reveal significant information about their data. This has…

Label differential privacy (DP) is a framework that protects the privacy of labels in training datasets, while the feature vectors are public. Existing approaches protect the privacy of labels by flipping them randomly, and then train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Puning Zhao , Rongfei Fan , Huiwen Wu , Qingming Li , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

This work studies the distributed empirical risk minimization (ERM) problem under differential privacy (DP) constraint. Standard distributed algorithms achieve DP typically by perturbing all local subgradients with noise, leading to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Changxin Liu , Karl H. Johansson , Yang Shi