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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

This paper addresses the problem of privacy-preserving consensus control for multi-agent systems (MAS) using differential privacy. We propose a novel distributed finite-horizon linear quadratic regulator (LQR) framework, in which agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-16 Yuwen Ma , Yongqiang Wang , Sarah K. Spurgeon , Boli Chen

We study non-convex distributed optimization problems where a set of agents collaboratively solve a separable optimization problem that is distributed over a time-varying network. The existing methods to solve these problems rely on (at…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-26 Hadi Reisizadeh , Behrouz Touri , Soheil Mohajer

Distributed stochastic optimization enables multi-agent collaboration in applications such as distributed learning and sensor networks, but also raises critical privacy concerns due to the involvement of sensitive data. While existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Haoqiang Zhou , Chi Chen , Yongfeng Zhi , Huan Gao

Distributed optimization and learning has recently garnered great attention due to its wide applications in sensor networks, smart grids, machine learning, and so forth. Despite rapid development, existing distributed optimization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

We consider a fully-decentralized scenario in which no central trusted entity exists and all clients are honest-but-curious. The state-of-the-art approaches to this problem often rely on cryptographic protocols, such as multiparty…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Hsuan-Po Liu , Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar

Privacy and algorithmic fairness have become two central issues in modern machine learning. Although each has separately emerged as a rapidly growing research area, their joint effect remains comparatively under-explored. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-26 Gengyu Xue , Yi Yu

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving data collection in distributed systems, where users contribute multi-dimensional records with potentially correlated attributes. Recent work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sandaru Jayawardana , Sennur Ulukus , Ming Ding , Kanchana Thilakarathna

This article establishes a method to answer a finite set of linear queries on a given dataset while ensuring differential privacy. To achieve this, we formulate the corresponding task as a saddle-point problem, i.e. an optimization problem…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-05 Giorgio Micali , Clement Lezane , Annika Betken

Developing a differentially private deep learning algorithm is challenging, due to the difficulty in analyzing the sensitivity of objective functions that are typically used to train deep neural networks. Many existing methods resort to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Frederik Harder , Jonas Köhler , Max Welling , Mijung Park

The potential risk of privacy leakage prevents users from sharing their honest opinions on social platforms. This paper addresses the problem of privacy preservation if the query returns the histogram of rankings. The framework of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-09-25 Shang Shang , Tiance Wang , Paul Cuff , Sanjeev Kulkarni

We consider the problem of estimating sparse discrete distributions under local differential privacy (LDP) and communication constraints. We characterize the sample complexity for sparse estimation under LDP constraints up to a constant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Jayadev Acharya , Peter Kairouz , Yuhan Liu , Ziteng Sun

We consider the critical problem of distributed learning over data while keeping it private from the computational servers. The state-of-the-art approaches to this problem rely on quantizing the data into a finite field, so that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar , A. Salman Avestimehr

Conventionally, in a differentially private additive noise mechanism, independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) noise samples are added to each coordinate of the response. In this work, we formally present the addition of noise that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Gokularam Muthukrishnan , Sheetal Kalyani

In the era of big data, the need to expand the amount of data through data sharing to improve model performance has become increasingly compelling. As a result, effective collaborative learning models need to be developed with respect to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Huiwen Wu , Cen Chen , Li Wang

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

As machine learning becomes more widespread throughout society, aspects including data privacy and fairness must be carefully considered, and are crucial for deployment in highly regulated industries. Unfortunately, the application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Maria S. Esipova , Atiyeh Ashari Ghomi , Yaqiao Luo , Jesse C. Cresswell

In many signal processing and machine learning applications, datasets containing private information are held at different locations, requiring the development of distributed privacy-preserving algorithms. Tensor and matrix factorizations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-23 Hafiz Imtiaz , Anand D. Sarwate

Federated learning is distributed model training across several clients without disclosing raw data. Despite advancements in data privacy, risks still remain. Differential Privacy (DP) is a technique to protect sensitive data by adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tejash Varsani

An algorithm is developed to gradually relax the Differential Privacy (DP) guarantee of a randomized response. The output from each relaxation maintains the same probability distribution as a standard randomized response with the equivalent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Mingen Pan