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Machine learning models should not reveal particular information that is not otherwise accessible. Differential privacy provides a formal framework to mitigate privacy risks by ensuring that the inclusion or exclusion of any single data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

Modern Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) increasingly leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide advanced features like code autocomplete. While powerful, training these models on user-written code introduces significant…

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We study the inherent trade-offs in minimizing privacy risks and maximizing utility, while maintaining high computational efficiency, when fine-tuning large language models (LLMs). A number of recent works in privacy research have attempted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Soumi Das , Camila Kolling , Mohammad Aflah Khan , Mahsa Amani , Bishwamittra Ghosh , Qinyuan Wu , Till Speicher , Krishna P. Gummadi

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning paradigm based on protecting data privacy of devices, which however, can still be broken by gradient leakage attack via parameter inversion techniques. Differential privacy (DP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Pengcheng Sun , Erwu Liu , Wei Ni , Rui Wang , Yuanzhe Geng , Lijuan Lai , Abbas Jamalipour

Sharing and working on sensitive data in distributed settings from healthcare to finance is a major challenge due to security and privacy concerns. Secure multiparty computation (SMC) is a viable panacea for this, allowing distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Abbas Acar , Z. Berkay Celik , Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac , Patrick McDaniel

Federated Learning (FL) allows for the training of Machine Learning models in a collaborative manner without the need to share sensitive data. However, it remains vulnerable to Gradient Leakage Attacks (GLAs), which can reveal private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Miguel Fernandez-de-Retana , Unai Zulaika , Rubén Sánchez-Corcuera , Aitor Almeida

In recent years, machine learning techniques are widely used in numerous applications, such as weather forecast, financial data analysis, spam filtering, and medical prediction. In the meantime, massive data generated from multiple sources…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Wei Du , Ang Li , Qinghua Li

The privacy leakage of the model about the training data can be bounded in the differential privacy mechanism. However, for meaningful privacy parameters, a differentially private model degrades the utility drastically when the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Da Yu , Huishuai Zhang , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Collaborative learning enables two or more participants, each with their own training dataset, to collaboratively learn a joint model. It is desirable that the collaboration should not cause the disclosure of either the raw datasets of each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yanjun Zhang , Guangdong Bai , Xue Li , Caitlin Curtis , Chen Chen , Ryan K L Ko

Privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms are crucial for the increasingly common setting in which personal data, such as medical or financial records, are analyzed. We provide general techniques to produce privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Claire Monteleoni , Anand D. Sarwate

While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

Training with differential privacy (DP) provides a guarantee to members in a dataset that they cannot be identified by users of the released model. However, those data providers, and, in general, the public, lack methods to efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zoë Ruha Bell , Anvith Thudi , Olive Franzese-McLaughlin , Nicolas Papernot , Shafi Goldwasser

We consider training machine learning models using Training data located on multiple private and geographically-scattered servers with different privacy settings. Due to the distributed nature of the data, communicating with all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Farhad Farokhi , Nan Wu , David Smith , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

We consider a collaborative learning scenario in which multiple data-owners wish to jointly train a logistic regression model, while keeping their individual datasets private from the other parties. We propose COPML, a fully-decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server, but it remains vulnerable to privacy leakage because shared model updates can expose sensitive information through inversion,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Fardin Jalil Piran , Zhiling Chen , Yang Zhang , Qianyu Zhou , Jiong Tang , Farhad Imani

Differential Privacy (DP) is an important privacy-enhancing technology for private machine learning systems. It allows to measure and bound the risk associated with an individual participation in a computation. However, it was recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Cuong Tran , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

Differential Privacy (DP) is a key property to protect data and models from integrity attacks. In the Deep Learning (DL) field, it is commonly implemented through the Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD). However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Jiménez-López , Daniel , Rodríguez-Barroso , Nuria , Luzón , M. Victoria , Herrera , Francisco

Machine learning (ML) models trained on personal data have been shown to leak information about users. Differential privacy (DP) enables model training with a guaranteed bound on this leakage. Each new model trained with DP increases the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Tao Luo , Mingen Pan , Pierre Tholoniat , Asaf Cidon , Roxana Geambasu , Mathias Lécuyer

As the use of large embedding models in recommendation systems and language applications increases, concerns over user data privacy have also risen. DP-SGD, a training algorithm that combines differential privacy with stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Badih Ghazi , Yangsibo Huang , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) extends the local differential privacy (LDP) framework to metric spaces, enabling more nuanced privacy protection for data such as geo-locations. However, existing mDP optimization methods, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ruiyao Liu , Chenxi Qiu