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Differential Privacy (DP) is a widely adopted technique, valued for its effectiveness in protecting the privacy of task-specific datasets, making it a critical tool for large language models. However, its effectiveness in Multimodal Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qianshan Wei , Jiaqi Li , Zihan You , Yi Zhan , Kecen Li , Jialin Wu , Xinfeng Li Hengjun Liu , Yi Yu , Bin Cao , Yiwen Xu , Yang Liu , Guilin Qi

Recent research shows that modern deep learning models achieve high predictive accuracy partly by memorizing individual training samples. Such memorization raises serious privacy concerns, motivating the widespread adoption of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiaming Zhang , Huanyi Xie , Meng Ding , Shaopeng Fu , Jinyan Liu , Di Wang

We give a fast algorithm to optimally compose privacy guarantees of differentially private (DP) algorithms to arbitrary accuracy. Our method is based on the notion of privacy loss random variables to quantify the privacy loss of DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Sivakanth Gopi , Yin Tat Lee , Lukas Wutschitz

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adapted to proprietary and domain-specific corpora that contain sensitive information, creating a tension between formal privacy guarantees and efficient deployment through model compression.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Fatemeh Khadem , Sajad Mousavi , Yi Fang , Yuhong Liu

The rise of IoT devices has prompted the demand for deploying machine learning at-the-edge with real-time, efficient, and secure data processing. In this context, implementing machine learning (ML) models with real-valued weight parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ce Feng , Parv Venkitasubramaniam

Privacy-preserving machine learning aims to train models on private data without leaking sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is considered the gold standard framework for privacy-preserving training, as it provides formal…

Differential privacy (DP) is widely employed in machine learning to protect confidential or sensitive training data from being revealed. As data owners gain greater control over their data due to personal data ownership, they are more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiao Tian , Jue Fan , Rachael Hwee Ling Sim , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

We investigate whether Differentially Private SGD offers better privacy in practice than what is guaranteed by its state-of-the-art analysis. We do so via novel data poisoning attacks, which we show correspond to realistic privacy attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Matthew Jagielski , Jonathan Ullman , Alina Oprea

Machine learning (ML) models can leak information about users, and differential privacy (DP) provides a rigorous way to bound that leakage under a given budget. This DP budget can be regarded as a new type of compute resource in workloads…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Pierre Tholoniat , Kelly Kostopoulou , Mosharaf Chowdhury , Asaf Cidon , Roxana Geambasu , Mathias Lécuyer , Junfeng Yang

Current practices for reporting the level of differential privacy (DP) protection for machine learning (ML) algorithms such as DP-SGD provide an incomplete and potentially misleading picture of the privacy guarantees. For instance, if only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Juan Felipe Gomez , Bogdan Kulynych , Georgios Kaissis , Flavio P. Calmon , Jamie Hayes , Borja Balle , Antti Honkela

In this paper, we focus on preserving differential privacy (DP) in continual learning (CL), in which we train ML models to learn a sequence of new tasks while memorizing previous tasks. We first introduce a notion of continual adjacent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Pradnya Desai , Phung Lai , NhatHai Phan , My T. Thai

Learning with relational and network-structured data is increasingly vital in sensitive domains where protecting the privacy of individual entities is paramount. Differential Privacy (DP) offers a principled approach for quantifying privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yinan Huang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Rongzhe Wei , Pan Li

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

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a widely used tool for machine learning in distributed settings, where a machine learning model is trained over distributed data sources through an interactive process of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zonghao Huang , Rui Hu , Yuanxiong Guo , Eric Chan-Tin , Yanmin Gong

Machine Learning (ML) models integrated with in-situ sensing offer transformative solutions for defect detection in Additive Manufacturing (AM), but this integration brings critical challenges in safeguarding sensitive data, such as part…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Fardin Jalil Piran , Prathyush P. Poduval , Hamza Errahmouni Barkam , Mohsen Imani , Farhad Imani

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

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

Differential privacy (DP) is a privacy-preserving paradigm that protects the training data when training deep learning models. Critically, the performance of models is determined by the training hyperparameters, especially those of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiqi Bu , Ruixuan Liu

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal privacy framework that enables training machine learning (ML) models while protecting individuals' data. As pointed out by prior work, ML models are part of larger systems, which can lead to so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Marlon Tobaben , Talal Alrawajfeh , Marcus Klasson , Mikko Heikkilä , Arno Solin , Antti Honkela

Significant success has been realized recently on applying machine learning to real-world applications. There have also been corresponding concerns on the privacy of training data, which relates to data security and confidentiality issues.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-27 Bai Li , Changyou Chen , Hao Liu , Lawrence Carin