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Learning with relational and network-structured data is increasingly vital in sensitive domains where protecting the privacy of individual entities is paramount. Differential Privacy (DP) offers a principled approach for quantifying privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yinan Huang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Rongzhe Wei , Pan Li

Transfer learning through the use of pre-trained models has become a growing trend for the machine learning community. Consequently, numerous pre-trained models are released online to facilitate further research. However, it raises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Zhuowen Yuan , Fan Wu , Yunhui Long , Chaowei Xiao , Bo Li

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees for machine learning applications. Much recent work has been focused on developing differentially private models, however there has been a gap in other stages of the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ashly Lau , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

This paper introduces \texttt{FedMPDD} (\textbf{Fed}erated Learning via \textbf{M}ulti-\textbf{P}rojected \textbf{D}irectional \textbf{D}erivatives), a novel algorithm that simultaneously optimizes bandwidth utilization and enhances privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Mohammadreza Rostami , Solmaz S. Kia

Private regression has received attention from both database and security communities. Recent work by Fredrikson et al. (USENIX Security 2014) analyzed the functional mechanism (Zhang et al. VLDB 2012) for training linear regression models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Xi Wu , Matthew Fredrikson , Wentao Wu , Somesh Jha , Jeffrey F. Naughton

With changes in privacy laws, there is often a hard requirement for client data to remain on the device rather than being sent to the server. Therefore, most processing happens on the device, and only an altered element is sent to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ajinkya K Mulay

Federated learning enables collaborative machine learning while preserving data privacy. However, the rise of federated unlearning, designed to allow clients to erase their data from the global model, introduces new privacy concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Bocheng Ju , Junchao Fan , Jiaqi Liu , Xiaolin Chang

Federated Learning enables entities to collaboratively learn a shared prediction model while keeping their training data locally. It prevents data collection and aggregation and, therefore, mitigates the associated privacy risks. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model building among a large number of participants without the need for explicit data sharing. But this approach shows vulnerabilities when privacy inference attacks are applied to it. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Pretom Roy Ovi , Emon Dey , Nirmalya Roy , Aryya Gangopadhyay

Protecting privacy in learning while maintaining the model performance has become increasingly critical in many applications that involve sensitive data. Private Gradient Descent (PGD) is a commonly used private learning framework, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Junyuan Hong , Zhangyang Wang , Jiayu Zhou

Privacy-preserving training on sensitive data commonly relies on differentially private stochastic optimization with gradient clipping and Gaussian noise. The clipping threshold is a critical control knob: if set too small, systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , Bruce J. West , YangQuan Chen

Many commonly used learning algorithms work by iteratively updating an intermediate solution using one or a few data points in each iteration. Analysis of differential privacy for such algorithms often involves ensuring privacy of each step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

The combination of deep neural networks and Differential Privacy has been of increasing interest in recent years, as it offers important data protection guarantees to the individuals of the training datasets used. However, using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Osvald Frisk , Friedrich Dörmann , Christian Marius Lillelund , Christian Fischer Pedersen

The memorization of training data by neural networks raises pressing concerns for privacy and security. Recent work has shown that, under certain conditions, portions of the training set can be reconstructed directly from model parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yehonatan Refael , Guy Smorodinsky , Ofir Lindenbaum , Itay Safran

In this paper, we consider a decentralized learning problem in the presence of stragglers. Although gradient coding techniques have been developed for distributed learning to evade stragglers, where the devices send encoded gradients with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Chengxi Li , Mikael Skoglund

The deployment of deep learning applications has to address the growing privacy concerns when using private and sensitive data for training. A conventional deep learning model is prone to privacy attacks that can recover the sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-10 Di Gao , Cheng Zhuo

Federated learning promises to make machine learning feasible on distributed, private datasets by implementing gradient descent using secure aggregation methods. The idea is to compute a global weight update without revealing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Badih Ghazi , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker

When applying differential privacy to sensitive data, we can often improve performance using external information such as other sensitive data, public data, or human priors. We propose to use the learning-augmented algorithms (or algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mikhail Khodak , Kareem Amin , Travis Dick , Sergei Vassilvitskii

We survey distributed deep learning models for training or inference without accessing raw data from clients. These methods aim to protect confidential patterns in data while still allowing servers to train models. The distributed deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Praneeth Vepakomma , Tristan Swedish , Ramesh Raskar , Otkrist Gupta , Abhimanyu Dubey