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We study how to communicate findings of Bayesian inference to third parties, while preserving the strong guarantee of differential privacy. Our main contributions are four different algorithms for private Bayesian inference on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Zuhe Zhang , Benjamin Rubinstein , Christos Dimitrakakis

Differential privacy (DP) is obtained by randomizing a data analysis algorithm, which necessarily introduces a tradeoff between its utility and privacy. Many DP mechanisms are built upon one of two underlying tools: Laplace and Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Roy Rinberg , Ilia Shumailov , Vikrant Singhal , Rachel Cummings , Nicolas Papernot

We propose a simple heuristic privacy analysis of noisy clipped stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) in the setting where only the last iterate is released and the intermediate iterates remain hidden. Namely, our heuristic assumes a linear…

In this paper, we propose a novel Heterogeneous Gaussian Mechanism (HGM) to preserve differential privacy in deep neural networks, with provable robustness against adversarial examples. We first relax the constraint of the privacy budget in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-05 NhatHai Phan , Minh Vu , Yang Liu , Ruoming Jin , Dejing Dou , Xintao Wu , My T. Thai

In this work, we introduce a differentially private method for generating synthetic data from vertically partitioned data, \emph{i.e.}, where data of the same individuals is distributed across multiple data holders or parties. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Razane Tajeddine , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

This paper addresses the problem of protecting network information from privacy system identification (SI) attacks when sharing cyber-physical system simulations. We model analyst observations of networked states as time-series outputs of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Andrew Campbell , Anna Scaglione , Hang Liu , Victor Elvira , Sean Peisert , Daniel Arnold

This article provides a comprehensive synthesis of the recent developments in synthetic data generation via deep generative models, focusing on tabular datasets. We specifically outline the importance of synthetic data generation in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Conor Hassan , Robert Salomone , Kerrie Mengersen

Privacy-preserving releasing of complex data (e.g., image, text, audio) represents a long-standing challenge for the data mining research community. Due to rich semantics of the data and lack of a priori knowledge about the analysis task,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Xinyang Zhang , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

In the domain of deep learning, the challenge of protecting sensitive data while maintaining model utility is significant. Traditional Differential Privacy (DP) techniques such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Tao Huang , Qingyu Huang , Xin Shi , Jiayang Meng , Guolong Zheng , Xu Yang , Xun Yi

Differentially-private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is a family of iterative machine learning training algorithms that privatize gradients to generate a sequence of differentially-private (DP) model parameters. It is also the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Weiwei Kong , Mónica Ribero

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in learning with graph-structured data. Privacy concerns have also been raised for the trained models which could expose the sensitive information of graphs including both node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Qiuchen Zhang , Hong kyu Lee , Jing Ma , Jian Lou , Carl Yang , Li Xiong

Classification tasks on labeled graph-structured data have many important applications ranging from social recommendation to financial modeling. Deep neural networks are increasingly being used for node classification on graphs, wherein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Aashish Kolluri , Teodora Baluta , Bryan Hooi , Prateek Saxena

This paper presents a personalized graph federated learning (PGFL) framework in which distributedly connected servers and their respective edge devices collaboratively learn device or cluster-specific models while maintaining the privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Francois Gauthier , Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner , Yih-Fang Huang , Anthony Kuh

Social networks are considered to be heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) with deep learning technological advances. HGNNs, compared to homogeneous data, absorb various aspects of information about individuals in the training stage.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuecen Wei , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Hao Peng , Jia Wu , Jinyan Wang , Xianxian Li

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

Generating realistic graph-structured data is challenging due to discrete structures, variable sizes, and class-specific connectivity patterns that resist conventional generative modelling. While recent graph generation methods employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Seyedeh Ava Razi Razavi , James Sargant , Sheridan Houghten , Renata Dividino

The need to analyze sensitive data, such as medical records or financial data, has created a critical research challenge in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the framework of differential privacy, and explore mechanisms for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nikolija Bojkovic , Po-Ling Loh

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

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the canonical approach to private deep learning. While the current privacy analysis of DP-SGD is known to be tight in some settings, several empirical results suggest that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Anvith Thudi , Hengrui Jia , Casey Meehan , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot

Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) is a single-parameter family of privacy notions that provides coherent guarantees to avoid the exposure of sensitive individual information. Despite the extra interpretability and tighter bounds under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yi Liu , Ke Sun , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang