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We study differentially private stochastic optimization in convex and non-convex settings. For the convex case, we focus on the family of non-smooth generalized linear losses (GLLs). Our algorithm for the $\ell_2$ setting achieves optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Raef Bassily , Cristóbal Guzmán , Michael Menart

We study differentially private (DP) algorithms for stochastic non-convex optimization. In this problem, the goal is to minimize the population loss over a $p$-dimensional space given $n$ i.i.d. samples drawn from a distribution. We improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Yingxue Zhou , Xiangyi Chen , Mingyi Hong , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Arindam Banerjee

We study the problem of $(\epsilon,\delta)$-differentially private learning of linear predictors with convex losses. We provide results for two subclasses of loss functions. The first case is when the loss is smooth and non-negative but not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Raman Arora , Raef Bassily , Cristóbal Guzmán , Michael Menart , Enayat Ullah

We establish upper bounds for the expected excess risk of models trained by proper iterative algorithms which approximate the local minima. Unlike the results built upon the strong globally strongly convexity or global growth conditions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mingyang Yi , Ruoyu Wang , Zhi-Ming Ma

Machine learning algorithms in high-dimensional settings are highly susceptible to the influence of even a small fraction of structured outliers, making robust optimization techniques essential. In particular, within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Changyu Gao , Andrew Lowy , Xingyu Zhou , Stephen J. Wright

We study stochastic convex optimization with heavy-tailed data under the constraint of differential privacy (DP). Most prior work on this problem is restricted to the case where the loss function is Lipschitz. Instead, as introduced by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Gautam Kamath , Xingtu Liu , Huanyu Zhang

Differentially private (DP) stochastic convex optimization (SCO) is ubiquitous in trustworthy machine learning algorithm design. This paper studies the DP-SCO problem with streaming data sampled from a distribution and arrives sequentially.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Yuxuan Han , Zhicong Liang , Zhipeng Liang , Yang Wang , Yuan Yao , Jiheng Zhang

We study the problem of approximating stationary points of Lipschitz and smooth functions under $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-differential privacy (DP) in both the finite-sum and stochastic settings. A point $\widehat{w}$ is called an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Raman Arora , Raef Bassily , Tomás González , Cristóbal Guzmán , Michael Menart , Enayat Ullah

We develop algorithms for private stochastic convex optimization that adapt to the hardness of the specific function we wish to optimize. While previous work provide worst-case bounds for arbitrary convex functions, it is often the case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Hilal Asi , Daniel Levy , John Duchi

Differentially private (stochastic) gradient descent is the workhorse of DP private machine learning in both the convex and non-convex settings. Without privacy constraints, second-order methods, like Newton's method, converge faster than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Arun Ganesh , Mahdi Haghifam , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

We study convex optimization problems under differential privacy (DP). With heavy-tailed gradients, existing works achieve suboptimal rates. The main obstacle is that existing gradient estimators have suboptimal tail properties, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Puning Zhao , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu , Chong Wang , Rongfei Fan , Qingming Li

We consider the problem of differentially private stochastic convex optimization (DP-SCO) in a distributed setting with $M$ clients, where each of them has a local dataset of $N$ i.i.d. data samples from an underlying data distribution. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Sudeep Salgia , Nikola Pavlovic , Yuejie Chi , Qing Zhao

User-level differentially private stochastic convex optimization (DP-SCO) has garnered significant attention due to the paramount importance of safeguarding user privacy in modern large-scale machine learning applications. Current methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Daogao Liu , Pasin Manurangsi

We initiate a systematic study of worst-group risk minimization under $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy (DP). The goal is to privately find a model that approximately minimizes the maximal risk across $p$ sub-populations (groups)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xinyu Zhou , Raef Bassily

We introduce a new tool for stochastic convex optimization (SCO): a Reweighted Stochastic Query (ReSQue) estimator for the gradient of a function convolved with a (Gaussian) probability density. Combining ReSQue with recent advances in ball…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-30 Yair Carmon , Arun Jambulapati , Yujia Jin , Yin Tat Lee , Daogao Liu , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

We introduce a new mechanism for stochastic convex optimization (SCO) with user-level differential privacy guarantees. The convergence rates of this mechanism are similar to those in the prior work of Levy et al. (2021); Narayanan et al.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Raghu Meka , Pasin Manurangsi , Chiyuan Zhang

We study differentially private (DP) algorithms for smooth stochastic minimax optimization, with stochastic minimization as a byproduct. The holy grail of these settings is to guarantee the optimal trade-off between the privacy and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Liang Zhang , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Niao He

We study the task of $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially private online convex optimization (OCO). In the online setting, the release of each distinct decision or iterate carries with it the potential for privacy loss. This problem has a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Naman Agarwal , Satyen Kale , Karan Singh , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

In this paper, by introducing Generalized Bernstein condition, we propose the first $\mathcal{O}\big(\frac{\sqrt{p}}{n\epsilon}\big)$ high probability excess population risk bound for differentially private algorithms under the assumptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yilin Kang , Yong Liu , Jian Li , Weiping Wang

In this work, we conduct a systematic study of stochastic saddle point problems (SSP) and stochastic variational inequalities (SVI) under the constraint of $(\epsilon,\delta)$-differential privacy (DP) in both Euclidean and non-Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Raef Bassily , Cristóbal Guzmán , Michael Menart