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This article introduces differentially private log-location-scale (DP-LLS) regression models, which incorporate differential privacy into LLS regression through the functional mechanism. The proposed models are established by injecting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-16 Jiewen Sheng , Xiaolei Fang

This paper investigates the differentially private bipartite consensus algorithm over signed networks. The proposed algorithm protects each agent's sensitive information by adding noise with time-varying variances to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Jimin Wang , Jieming Ke , Ji-Feng Zhang

Balancing privacy and accuracy is a major challenge in designing differentially private machine learning algorithms. One way to improve this tradeoff for free is to leverage the noise in common data operations that already use randomness.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Jacob Imola , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Datasets are often used multiple times and each successive analysis may depend on the outcome of previous analyses. Standard techniques for ensuring generalization and statistical validity do not account for this adaptive dependence. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Vitaly Feldman , Thomas Steinke

We consider differentially private algorithms for reinforcement learning in continuous spaces, such that neighboring reward functions are indistinguishable. This protects the reward information from being exploited by methods such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 Baoxiang Wang , Nidhi Hegde

The Gaussian mechanism is an essential building block used in multitude of differentially private data analysis algorithms. In this paper we revisit the Gaussian mechanism and show that the original analysis has several important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Borja Balle , Yu-Xiang Wang

Modern machine learning algorithms aim to extract fine-grained information from data to provide accurate predictions, which often conflicts with the goal of privacy protection. This paper addresses the practical and theoretical importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-17 Puyu Wang , Yunwen Lei , Yiming Ying , Ding-Xuan Zhou

A recently proposed scheme utilizing local noise addition and matrix masking enables data collection while protecting individual privacy from all parties, including the central data manager. Statistical analysis of such privacy-preserved…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-24 Linh H Nghiem , Aidong A. Ding , Samuel Wu

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

Federated learning aims to protect data privacy by collaboratively learning a model without sharing private data among users. However, an adversary may still be able to infer the private training data by attacking the released model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Zhicong Liang , Bao Wang , Quanquan Gu , Stanley Osher , Yuan Yao

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

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving collaborative learning framework, and differential privacy can be applied to further enhance its privacy protection. Existing FL systems typically adopt Federated Average (FedAvg) as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Lumin Liu , Jun Zhang , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

We consider the privacy-preserving machine learning (ML) setting where the trained model must satisfy differential privacy (DP) with respect to the labels of the training examples. We propose two novel approaches based on, respectively, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Mani Malek , Ilya Mironov , Karthik Prasad , Igor Shilov , Florian Tramèr

Privacy-preserving training on sensitive data commonly relies on differentially private stochastic optimization with gradient clipping and Gaussian noise. The clipping threshold is a critical control knob: if set too small, systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , Bruce J. West , YangQuan Chen

We consider training models on private data that are distributed across user devices. To ensure privacy, we add on-device noise and use secure aggregation so that only the noisy sum is revealed to the server. We present a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Peter Kairouz , Ziyu Liu , Thomas Steinke

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

This monograph explores the design and analysis of correlated noise mechanisms for differential privacy (DP), focusing on their application to private training of AI and machine learning models via the core primitive of estimation of…

Data privacy is an important concern in machine learning, and is fundamentally at odds with the task of training useful learning models, which typically require the acquisition of large amounts of private user data. One possible way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

In an MPC-protected distributed computation, although the use of MPC assures data privacy during computation, sensitive information may still be inferred by curious MPC participants from the computation output. This can be observed, for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ivan Tjuawinata , Jiabo Wang , Mengmeng Yang , Shanxiang Lyu , Huaxiong Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam

Differential privacy is a standard framework to quantify the privacy loss in the data anonymization process. To preserve differential privacy, a random noise adding mechanism is widely adopted, where the trade-off between data privacy level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shuying Qin , Jianping He , Chongrong Fang , James Lam