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Linear regression is an important tool across many fields that work with sensitive human-sourced data. Significant prior work has focused on producing differentially private point estimates, which provide a privacy guarantee to individuals…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Garrett Bernstein , Daniel Sheldon

This paper considers the generation of prediction intervals (PIs) by neural networks for quantifying uncertainty in regression tasks. It is axiomatic that high-quality PIs should be as narrow as possible, whilst capturing a specified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-10 Tim Pearce , Mohamed Zaki , Alexandra Brintrup , Andy Neely

This paper introduces a novel, computationally-efficient algorithm for predictive inference (PI) that requires no distributional assumptions on the data and can be computed faster than existing bootstrap-type methods for neural networks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-13 Yue Gao , Garvesh Raskutti , Rebecca Willet

As data-privacy regulations tighten and statistical models are increasingly deployed on sensitive human-sourced data, privacy-preserving linear regression has become a critical necessity. For the add-remove DP model, Kulesza et al. (2024)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Sasmita Harini S , Anshoo Tandon

Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning algorithms must balance classification accuracy with data privacy. This can be done using a combination of cryptographic and machine learning tools such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Inbar Helbitz , Shai Avidan

Learning using privileged information (LUPI) is a powerful heterogenous feature space machine learning framework that allows a machine learning model to learn from highly informative or privileged features which are available during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Amina Asif , Muhammad Dawood , Fayyaz ul Amir Afsar Minhas

Outsourcing deep neural networks (DNNs) inference tasks to an untrusted cloud raises data privacy and integrity concerns. While there are many techniques to ensure privacy and integrity for polynomial-based computations, DNNs involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ramy E. Ali , Jinhyun So , A. Salman Avestimehr

Recently, private inference (PI) has addressed the rising concern over data and model privacy in machine learning inference as a service. However, existing PI frameworks suffer from high computational and communication costs due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yuke Zhang , Dake Chen , Souvik Kundu , Haomei Liu , Ruiheng Peng , Peter A. Beerel

Recent work using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has made non-interactive privacy-preserving inference of deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) possible. However, the performance of these methods remain limited by their heavy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Eduardo Chielle , Manaar Alam , Jinting Liu , Jovan Kascelan , Michail Maniatakos

We propose ReDense as a simple and low complexity way to improve the performance of trained neural networks. We use a combination of random weights and rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation function to add a ReLU dense (ReDense) layer to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Alireza M. Javid , Sandipan Das , Mikael Skoglund , Saikat Chatterjee

We establish a simple connection between robust and differentially-private algorithms: private mechanisms which perform well with very high probability are automatically robust in the sense that they retain accuracy even if a constant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-02 Kristian Georgiev , Samuel B. Hopkins

ReLU activations are the main bottleneck in Private Inference that is based on ResNet networks. This is because they incur significant inference latency. Reducing ReLU count is a discrete optimization problem, and there are two common ways…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Vlad Rakhlin , Amir Jevnisek , Shai Avidan

The increased deployment of machine learning inference in various applications has sparked privacy concerns. In response, private inference (PI) protocols have been created to allow parties to perform inference without revealing their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiaqi Xue , Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou

Private Transformer inference using cryptographic protocols offers promising solutions for privacy-preserving machine learning; however, it still faces significant runtime overhead (efficiency issues) and challenges in handling long-token…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yancheng Zhang , Jiaqi Xue , Mengxin Zheng , Mimi Xie , Mingzhe Zhang , Lei Jiang , Qian Lou

Hybrid private inference (PI) protocol, which synergistically utilizes both multi-party computation (MPC) and homomorphic encryption, is one of the most prominent techniques for PI. However, even the state-of-the-art PI protocols are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Jaiyoung Park , Michael Jaemin Kim , Wonkyung Jung , Jung Ho Ahn

In Semi-Supervised Semi-Private (SP) learning, the learner has access to both public unlabelled and private labelled data. We propose a computationally efficient algorithm that, under mild assumptions on the data, provably achieves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Francesco Pinto , Yaxi Hu , Fanny Yang , Amartya Sanyal

We propose a network architecture capable of reliably estimating uncertainty of regression based predictions without sacrificing accuracy. The current state-of-the-art uncertainty algorithms either fall short of achieving prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Kinjal Patel , Steven Waslander

Economics and social science research often require analyzing datasets of sensitive personal information at fine granularity, with models fit to small subsets of the data. Unfortunately, such fine-grained analysis can easily reveal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Daniel Alabi , Audra McMillan , Jayshree Sarathy , Adam Smith , Salil Vadhan

Leveraging sparsity is crucial for optimizing large language model inference. however, modern LLMs employing SiLU as their activation function exhibit minimal activation sparsity. Recent research has proposed replacing SiLU with ReLU to…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Jiho Shin , Hoeseok Yang , Youngmin Yi

There has been increasing demand for establishing privacy-preserving methodologies for modern statistics and machine learning. Differential privacy, a mathematical notion from computer science, is a rising tool offering robust privacy…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-09 Shurong Lin , Elliot Paquette , Eric D. Kolaczyk