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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

Most existing decentralized learning methods with differential privacy (DP) guarantee rely on constant gradient clipping bounds and fixed-level DP Gaussian noises for each node throughout the training process, leading to a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zehan Zhu , Yan Huang , Xin Wang , Shouling Ji , Jinming Xu

Existing approaches for training neural networks with user-level differential privacy (e.g., DP Federated Averaging) in federated learning (FL) settings involve bounding the contribution of each user's model update by clipping it to some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Galen Andrew , Om Thakkar , H. Brendan McMahan , Swaroop Ramaswamy

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely used to train deep neural networks with formal privacy guarantees. However, the addition of differential privacy (DP) often degrades model accuracy by introducing both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xincheng Xu , Thilina Ranbaduge , Qing Wang , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , David Smith

Privacy is a growing concern in modern deep-learning systems and applications. Differentially private (DP) training prevents the leakage of sensitive information in the collected training data from the trained machine learning models. DP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Xinwei Zhang , Zhiqi Bu , Mingyi Hong , Meisam Razaviyayn

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

The surge in multimodal AI's success has sparked concerns over data privacy in vision-and-language tasks. While CLIP has revolutionized multimodal learning through joint training on images and text, its potential to unintentionally disclose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Alyssa Huang , Peihan Liu , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang , Wanrong Zhang

Models need to be trained with privacy-preserving learning algorithms to prevent leakage of possibly sensitive information contained in their training data. However, canonical algorithms like differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yannis Cattan , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Nicolas Papernot , Abhradeep Thakurta

While machine learning has achieved remarkable results in a wide variety of domains, the training of models often requires large datasets that may need to be collected from different individuals. As sensitive information may be contained in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Richeng Jin , Xiaofan He , Huaiyu Dai

Adaptive optimizers are the de facto standard in non-private training as they often enable faster convergence and improved performance. In contrast, differentially private (DP) training is still predominantly performed with DP-SGD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mihaela Hudişteanu , Nikita P. Kalinin , Edwige Cyffers

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

We systematically study the calibration of classifiers trained with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) and observe miscalibration across a wide range of vision and language tasks. Our analysis identifies per-example…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Hanlin Zhang , Xuechen Li , Prithviraj Sen , Salim Roukos , Tatsunori Hashimoto

Training deep learning models with differential privacy (DP) results in a degradation of performance. The training dynamics of models with DP show a significant difference from standard training, whereas understanding the geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jinseong Park , Hoki Kim , Yujin Choi , Jaewook Lee

Training generative models with differential privacy (DP) typically involves injecting noise into gradient updates or adapting the discriminator's training procedure. As a result, such approaches often struggle with hyper-parameter tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kristjan Greenewald , Yuancheng Yu , Hao Wang , Kai Xu

In this paper, we study efficient differentially private alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMM) via gradient perturbation for many machine learning problems. For smooth convex loss functions with (non)-smooth regularization, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Tao Xu , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Hongying Liu , Longjie Shen , Maoguo Gong

A major challenge in applying differential privacy to training deep neural network models is scalability.The widely-used training algorithm, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD), struggles with training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Kamil Adamczewski , Mijung Park

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the workhorse algorithm for recent advances in private deep learning. It provides a single privacy guarantee to all datapoints in the dataset. We propose output-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Da Yu , Gautam Kamath , Janardhan Kulkarni , Tie-Yan Liu , Jian Yin , Huishuai Zhang

Differential privacy (DP) is crucial for safeguarding sensitive client information in federated learning (FL), yet traditional DP-FL methods rely predominantly on fixed gradient clipping thresholds. Such static clipping neglects significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Hao Zhou , Siqi Cai , Hua Dai , Geng Yang , Jing Luo , Hui Cai

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradients Descent (DP-SGD) is a prominent paradigm for preserving privacy in deep learning. It ensures privacy by perturbing gradients with random noise calibrated to their entire norm at each training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yixuan Liu , Li Xiong , Yuhan Liu , Yujie Gu , Ruixuan Liu , Hong Chen

Deep learning models have been extensively adopted in various regions due to their ability to represent hierarchical features, which highly rely on the training set and procedures. Thus, protecting the training process and deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haodi Wang , Tangyu Jiang , Yu Guo , Chengjun Cai , Cong Wang , Xiaohua Jia