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Privacy concerns have led to the development of privacy-preserving approaches for learning models from sensitive data. Yet, in practice, even models learned with privacy guarantees can inadvertently memorize unique training examples or leak…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-11 Mario Diaz , Peter Kairouz , Jiachun Liao , Lalitha Sankar

Differential privacy is a recent notion of privacy for statistical databases that provides rigorous, meaningful confidentiality guarantees, even in the presence of an attacker with access to arbitrary side information. We show that for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Adam Smith

We review the use of differential privacy (DP) for privacy protection in machine learning (ML). We show that, driven by the aim of preserving the accuracy of the learned models, DP-based ML implementations are so loose that they do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Alberto Blanco-Justicia , David Sanchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Krishnamurty Muralidhar

Privacy-preserving machine learning aims to train models on private data without leaking sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is considered the gold standard framework for privacy-preserving training, as it provides formal…

Differentially private learning on real-world data poses challenges for standard machine learning practice: privacy guarantees are difficult to interpret, hyperparameter tuning on private data reduces the privacy budget, and ad-hoc privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Koen Lennart van der Veen , Ruben Seggers , Peter Bloem , Giorgio Patrini

Quantum algorithms for solving a wide range of practical problems have been proposed in the last ten years, such as data search and analysis, product recommendation, and credit scoring. The concern about privacy and other ethical issues in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Ji Guan , Wang Fang , Mingyu Huang , Mingsheng Ying

Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for privacy-preserving data analysis. Changing the hyperparameters of a differentially private algorithm allows one to trade off privacy and utility in a principled way. Quantifying this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Brendan Avent , Javier Gonzalez , Tom Diethe , Andrei Paleyes , Borja Balle

We present the first differentially private algorithms for reinforcement learning, which apply to the task of evaluating a fixed policy. We establish two approaches for achieving differential privacy, provide a theoretical analysis of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Borja Balle , Maziar Gomrokchi , Doina Precup

Online learning has been in the spotlight from the machine learning society for a long time. To handle massive data in Big Data era, one single learner could never efficiently finish this heavy task. Hence, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Chencheng Li , Pan Zhou

Differential privacy (DP) has become the standard for private data analysis. Certain machine learning applications only require privacy protection for specific protected attributes. Using naive variants of differential privacy in such use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Saeed Mahloujifar , Chuan Guo , G. Edward Suh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion that restricts the privacy leakage of an algorithm when running on sensitive data, in which privacy-utility trade-off is one of the central problems in private data analysis. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bo Li , Wei Wang , Peng Ye

Differential privacy is a widely adopted framework designed to safeguard the sensitive information of data providers within a data set. It is based on the application of controlled noise at the interface between the server that stores and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Rūta Binkytė , Carlos Pinzón , Szilvia Lestyán , Kangsoo Jung , Héber H. Arcolezi , Catuscia Palamidessi

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…

The last decade has seen a rise of Deep Learning with its applications ranging across diverse domains. But usually, the datasets used to drive these systems contain data which is highly confidential and sensitive. Though, Deep Learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Vishal Jignesh Gandhi , Sanchit Shokeen , Saloni Koshti

The process of data mining with differential privacy produces results that are affected by two types of noise: sampling noise due to data collection and privacy noise that is designed to prevent the reconstruction of sensitive information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Yue Wang , Daniel Kifer , Jaewoo Lee

In this paper, an adjustment to the original differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) algorithm for deep learning models is proposed. As a matter of motivation, to date, almost no state-of-the-art machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Mehdi Amian

Differential privacy is a formal, mathematical definition of data privacy that has gained traction in academia, industry, and government. The task of correctly constructing differentially private algorithms is non-trivial, and mistakes have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Subhajit Roy , Justin Hsu , Aws Albarghouthi

Differential privacy is the state-of-the-art definition for privacy, guaranteeing that any analysis performed on a sensitive dataset leaks no information about the individuals whose data are contained therein. In this thesis, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Vassilis Digalakis

Differential privacy offers formal quantitative guarantees for algorithms over datasets, but it assumes attackers that know and can influence all but one record in the database. This assumption often vastly overapproximates the attackers'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Damien Desfontaines , Esfandiar Mohammadi , Elisabeth Krahmer , David Basin

Many machine learning applications are based on data collected from people, such as their tastes and behaviour as well as biological traits and genetic data. Regardless of how important the application might be, one has to make sure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-11 Joonas Jälkö , Onur Dikmen , Antti Honkela