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We introduce new differentially private (DP) mechanisms for gradient-based machine learning (ML) with multiple passes (epochs) over a dataset, substantially improving the achievable privacy-utility-computation tradeoffs. We formalize the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , H. Brendan McMahan , Keith Rush , Abhradeep Thakurta

In this paper, we initiate a systematic investigation of differentially private algorithms for convex empirical risk minimization. Various instantiations of this problem have been studied before. We provide new algorithms and matching lower…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Raef Bassily , Adam Smith , Abhradeep Thakurta

A major challenge in applying differential privacy to training deep neural network models is scalability.The widely-used training algorithm, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD), struggles with training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Kamil Adamczewski , Mijung Park

Deep learning models have been extensively adopted in various regions due to their ability to represent hierarchical features, which highly rely on the training set and procedures. Thus, protecting the training process and deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haodi Wang , Tangyu Jiang , Yu Guo , Chengjun Cai , Cong Wang , Xiaohua Jia

Differentially private distributed mean estimation (DP-DME) is a fundamental building block in privacy-preserving federated learning, where a central server estimates the mean of $d$-dimensional vectors held by $n$ users while ensuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Sajani Vithana , Viveck R. Cadambe , Flavio P. Calmon , Haewon Jeong

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Privacy in AI remains a topic that draws attention from researchers and the general public in recent years. As one way to implement privacy-preserving AI, differentially private learning is a framework that enables AI models to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Tianyu Xia , Shuheng Shen , Su Yao , Xinyi Fu , Ke Xu , Xiaolong Xu , Xing Fu

We consider training models with differential privacy (DP) using mini-batch gradients. The existing state-of-the-art, Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), requires privacy amplification by sampling or shuffling to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Peter Kairouz , Brendan McMahan , Shuang Song , Om Thakkar , Abhradeep Thakurta , Zheng Xu

Differential Privacy (DP) is commonly employed to safeguard graph analysis or publishing. Distance, a critical factor in graph analysis, is typically handled using curator DP, where a trusted curator holds the complete neighbor lists of all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weihong Sheng , Jiajun Chen , Bin Cai , Chunqiang Hu , Meng Han , Jiguo Yu

Models need to be trained with privacy-preserving learning algorithms to prevent leakage of possibly sensitive information contained in their training data. However, canonical algorithms like differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yannis Cattan , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Nicolas Papernot , Abhradeep Thakurta

This paper investigates privacy issues in distributed resource allocation over directed networks, where each agent holds a private cost function and optimizes its decision subject to a global coupling constraint through local interaction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Wei Huo , Xiaomeng Chen , Lingying Huang , Karl Henrik Johansson , Ling Shi

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

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a popular iterative algorithm used to train machine learning models while formally guaranteeing the privacy of users. However, the privacy analysis of DP-SGD makes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

Distributed stochastic gradient descent is an important subroutine in distributed learning. A setting of particular interest is when the clients are mobile devices, where two important concerns are communication efficiency and the privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Naman Agarwal , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Felix Yu , Sanjiv Kumar , H. Brendan Mcmahan

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely utilized to preserve training data privacy in deep learning, which first clips the gradients to a predefined norm and then injects calibrated noise into the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Haichao Sha , Yang Cao , Yong Liu , Yuncheng Wu , Ruixuan Liu , Hong Chen

We study adaptive methods for differentially private convex optimization, proposing and analyzing differentially private variants of a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm with adaptive stepsizes, as well as the AdaGrad algorithm. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Hilal Asi , John Duchi , Alireza Fallah , Omid Javidbakht , Kunal Talwar

The rise of IoT devices has prompted the demand for deploying machine learning at-the-edge with real-time, efficient, and secure data processing. In this context, implementing machine learning (ML) models with real-valued weight parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ce Feng , Parv Venkitasubramaniam

Coordinate descent algorithms are widely used in machine learning and large-scale data analysis due to their strong optimality guarantees and impressive empirical performance in solving non-convex problems. In this work, we introduce Block…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Zhijie Yuan , Ganzhao Yuan , Lei Sun

This paper presents a holistic approach to gradient leakage resilient distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). First, we analyze two types of strategies for privacy-enhanced federated learning: (i) gradient pruning with random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Jingya Zhou , Ka-Ho Chow , Yanzhao Wu