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Nowadays, owners and developers of deep learning models must consider stringent privacy-preservation rules of their training data, usually crowd-sourced and retaining sensitive information. The most widely adopted method to enforce privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo matteucci

Machine learning models are known to memorize private data to reduce their training loss, which can be inadvertently exploited by privacy attacks such as model inversion and membership inference. To protect against these attacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jie Fu , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Zhili Chen , Lulu Wang , Kuncan Wang , Xun Ran

Temporal difference (TD) learning is a widely used method to evaluate policies in reinforcement learning. While many TD learning methods have been developed in recent years, little attention has been paid to preserving privacy and most of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Canzhe Zhao , Yanjie Ze , Jing Dong , Baoxiang Wang , Shuai Li

Modern deep learning techniques focus on extracting intricate information from data to achieve accurate predictions. However, the training datasets may be crowdsourced and include sensitive information, such as personal contact details,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Zhongjie Shi , Puyu Wang , Chenyang Zhang , Yuan Cao

In privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) performs worse than SGD due to per-sample gradient clipping and noise addition. A recent focus in private learning research is improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xinyu Tang , Ashwinee Panda , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Privacy preservation in machine learning, particularly through Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), is critical for sensitive data analysis. However, existing statistical inference methods for SGD predominantly focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-15 Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang , Zhanrui Cai

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used to protect training data in machine learning. Its privacy guarantee is commonly analyzed through a security game in which an adversary infers whether a target record…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wenhao Wang , Shujie Cui , Hui Cui , Xingliang Yuan

Differential privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee that prevents adversaries with access to machine learning models from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially private stochastic gradient descent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jie Fu , Zhili Chen , XinPeng Ling

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

Many commonly used learning algorithms work by iteratively updating an intermediate solution using one or a few data points in each iteration. Analysis of differential privacy for such algorithms often involves ensuring privacy of each step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has become the standard algorithm for training machine learning models with rigorous privacy guarantees. Despite its widespread use, the theoretical understanding of its long-run…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Amartya Mukherjee , Jun Liu

Differential privacy is a widely accepted measure of privacy in the context of deep learning algorithms, and achieving it relies on a noisy training approach known as differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD). DP-SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Ce Feng , Nuo Xu , Wujie Wen , Parv Venkitasubramaniam , Caiwen Ding

We study private prediction where differential privacy is achieved by adding noise to the outputs of a non-private model. Existing methods rely on noise proportional to the global sensitivity of the model, often resulting in sub-optimal…

Motivated by the increasing deployment of reinforcement learning in the real world, involving a large consumption of personal data, we introduce a differentially private (DP) policy gradient algorithm. We show that, in this setting, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Alexandre Rio , Merwan Barlier , Igor Colin

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

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms face the challenge of providing accurate results while protecting their inputs: the privacy-utility trade-off. A simple but powerful technique for DP adds noise to sensitivity-bounded query outputs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 David M. Sommer , Lukas Abfalterer , Sheila Zingg , Esfandiar Mohammadi

Many high-stakes applications require machine learning models that protect user privacy and provide well-calibrated, accurate predictions. While Differential Privacy (DP) is the gold standard for protecting user privacy, standard DP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ossi Räisä , Stratis Markou , Matthew Ashman , Wessel P. Bruinsma , Marlon Tobaben , Antti Honkela , Richard E. Turner

Recent advances in deep learning have drastically improved performance on many Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. However, the data used to train NLU models may contain private information such as addresses or phone numbers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Christophe Dupuy , Radhika Arava , Rahul Gupta , Anna Rumshisky

Differentially private learning is essential for training models on sensitive data, but empirical studies consistently show that it can degrade performance, introduce fairness issues like disparate impact, and reduce adversarial robustness.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ruichen Xu , Kexin Chen

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used notion for reasoning about privacy when publishing aggregate data. In this paper, we observe that certain DP mechanisms are amenable to a posteriori privacy analysis that exploits the fact that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Valentin Hartmann , Vincent Bindschaedler , Alexander Bentkamp , Robert West