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Differentially private gradient descent (DP-GD) is a popular algorithm to train deep learning models with provable guarantees on the privacy of the training data. In the last decade, the problem of understanding its performance cost with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Simone Bombari , Marco Mondelli

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal framework for training machine learning models with individual example level privacy. In the field of deep learning, Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Harsh Mehta , Abhradeep Thakurta , Alexey Kurakin , Ashok Cutkosky

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on vast datasets that may contain sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP), the de facto standard for formal privacy guarantees, provides a principled framework for training LLMs with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Enayat Ullah , Sai Aparna Aketi , Devansh Gupta , Huanyu Zhang , Meisam Razaviyayn

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) adds noise to gradients in back-propagation, safeguarding training data from privacy leakage, particularly membership inference. It fails to cover (inference-time) threats like…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Minxin Du , Xiang Yue , Sherman S. M. Chow , Tianhao Wang , Chenyu Huang , Huan Sun

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is a standard approach to privacy-preserving learning based on per-example clipping, subsampling, Gaussian perturbation, and privacy accounting. Classical DP-SGD releases a noisy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia

Developing a differentially private deep learning algorithm is challenging, due to the difficulty in analyzing the sensitivity of objective functions that are typically used to train deep neural networks. Many existing methods resort to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Frederik Harder , Jonas Köhler , Max Welling , Mijung Park

Prior work on differential privacy analysis of randomized SGD algorithms relies on composition theorems, where the implicit (unrealistic) assumption is that the internal state of the iterative algorithm is revealed to the adversary. As a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Jiayuan Ye , Reza Shokri

Differentially private (DP) linear regression has received significant attention in the recent theoretical literature, with several approaches proposed to improve error rates. Our work considers the popular high-dimensional regime with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-28 Simone Bombari , Jialei Luo , Inbar Seroussi , Marco Mondelli

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to protect data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. The DP techniques, however, hinder achieving a greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

Differential privacy (DP) has become a prevalent privacy model in a wide range of machine learning tasks, especially after the debut of DP-SGD. However, DP-SGD, which directly perturbs gradients in the training iterations, fails to mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jiawei Duan , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Xinyue Sun

Finding efficient, easily implementable differentially private (DP) algorithms that offer strong excess risk bounds is an important problem in modern machine learning. To date, most work has focused on private empirical risk minimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Andrew Lowy , Meisam Razaviyayn

As the use of large embedding models in recommendation systems and language applications increases, concerns over user data privacy have also risen. DP-SGD, a training algorithm that combines differential privacy with stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Badih Ghazi , Yangsibo Huang , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has become a widely used technique for safeguarding sensitive information in deep learning applications. Unfortunately, DPSGD's per-sample gradient clipping and uniform noise…

When we enforce differential privacy in machine learning, the utility-privacy trade-off is different w.r.t. each group. Gradient clipping and random noise addition disproportionately affect underrepresented and complex classes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Depeng Xu , Wei Du , Xintao Wu

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely used to train deep neural networks with formal privacy guarantees. However, the addition of differential privacy (DP) often degrades model accuracy by introducing both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xincheng Xu , Thilina Ranbaduge , Qing Wang , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , David Smith

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) offers the promise of training deep learning models while mitigating many privacy risks. However, there is currently a large accuracy gap between DP-SGD and normal SGD training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xin Gu , Yingtai Xiao , Guanlin He , Jiamu Bai , Daniel Kifer , Kiwan Maeng

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee preventing adversaries with access to a machine learning model from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Soham De , Leonard Berrada , Jamie Hayes , Samuel L. Smith , Borja Balle

We consider three different variants of differential privacy (DP), namely approximate DP, R\'enyi DP (RDP), and hypothesis test DP. In the first part, we develop a machinery for optimally relating approximate DP to RDP based on the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shahab Asoodeh , Jiachun Liao , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

In this paper, we study efficient differentially private alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMM) via gradient perturbation for many machine learning problems. For smooth convex loss functions with (non)-smooth regularization, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Tao Xu , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongying Liu , Longjie Shen , Maoguo Gong

Deep learning models are increasingly popular in many machine learning applications where the training data may contain sensitive information. To provide formal and rigorous privacy guarantee, many learning systems now incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Xiangyi Chen , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Mingyi Hong