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Modern machine learning systems achieve great success when trained on large datasets. However, these datasets usually contain sensitive information (e.g. medical records, face images), leading to serious privacy concerns. Differentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Dihong Jiang , Guojun Zhang , Mahdi Karami , Xi Chen , Yunfeng Shao , Yaoliang Yu

We present a new approach to machine learning-powered combinatorial auctions, which is based on the principles of Differential Privacy. Our methodology guarantees that the auction mechanism is truthful, meaning that rational bidders have…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Arash Jamshidi , Seyed Mohammad Hosseini , Seyed Mahdi Noormousavi , Mahdi Jafari Siavoshani

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Differential privacy is a strong notion for privacy that can be used to prove formal guarantees, in terms of a privacy budget, $\epsilon$, about how much information is leaked by a mechanism. However, implementations of privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans

Learning a classifier from private data collected by multiple parties is an important problem that has many potential applications. How can we build an accurate and differentially private global classifier by combining locally-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Jihun Hamm , Paul Cao , Mikhail Belkin

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

Differentially Private (DP) data release is a promising technique to disseminate data without compromising the privacy of data subjects. However the majority of prior work has focused on scenarios where a single party owns all the data. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruihan Wu , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Jiankai Sun , Tianyi Liu , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Chong Wang

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

This paper presents a framework for privacy-preserving verification of machine learning models, focusing on models trained on sensitive data. Integrating Local Differential Privacy (LDP) with model explanations from LIME and SHAP, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Wenbiao Li , Anisa Halimi , Xiaoqian Jiang , Jaideep Vaidya , Erman Ayday

In traditional, one-vote-per-person voting systems, privacy equates with ballot secrecy: voting tallies are published, but individual voters' choices are concealed. Voting systems that weight votes in proportion to token holdings, though,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Samuel Breckenridge , Dani Vilardell , Andrés Fábrega , Amy Zhao , Patrick McCorry , Rafael Solari , Ari Juels

Machine Learning (ML) is crucial in many sectors, including computer vision. However, ML models trained on sensitive data face security challenges, as they can be attacked and leak information. Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lucas Lange , Maurice-Maximilian Heykeroth , Erhard Rahm

With the development of machine learning, it is difficult for a single server to process all the data. So machine learning tasks need to be spread across multiple servers, turning the centralized machine learning into a distributed one.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Zoe L. Jiang , Jiajing Gu , Hongxiao Wang , Yulin Wu , Junbin Fang , Siu-Ming Yiu , Wenjian Luo , Xuan Wang

Many applications of machine learning, such as human health research, involve processing private or sensitive information. Privacy concerns may impose significant hurdles to collaboration in scenarios where there are multiple sites holding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Hafiz Imtiaz , Jafar Mohammadi , Anand D. Sarwate

Striking a balance between protecting data privacy and enabling collaborative computation is a critical challenge for distributed machine learning. While privacy-preserving techniques for federated learning have been extensively developed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Fatemeh Jafarian Dehkordi , Elahe Vedadi , Alireza Feizbakhsh , Yasaman Keshtkarjahromi , Hulya Seferoglu

We study the task of training regression models with the guarantee of label differential privacy (DP). Based on a global prior distribution on label values, which could be obtained privately, we derive a label DP randomization mechanism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Ethan Leeman , Pasin Manurangsi , Avinash V Varadarajan , Chiyuan Zhang

Many machine learning applications are based on data collected from people, such as their tastes and behaviour as well as biological traits and genetic data. Regardless of how important the application might be, one has to make sure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-11 Joonas Jälkö , Onur Dikmen , Antti Honkela

Visual Prompting (VP) is an emerging and powerful technique that allows sample-efficient adaptation to downstream tasks by engineering a well-trained frozen source model. In this work, we explore the benefits of VP in constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Yizhe Li , Yu-Lin Tsai , Xuebin Ren , Chia-Mu Yu , Pin-Yu Chen

In machine learning, boosting is one of the most popular methods that designed to combine multiple base learners to a superior one. The well-known Boosted Decision Tree classifier, has been widely adopted in many areas. In the big data era,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Sen Wang , J. Morris Chang

We introduce the Poisson Binomial mechanism (PBM), a discrete differential privacy mechanism for distributed mean estimation (DME) with applications to federated learning and analytics. We provide a tight analysis of its privacy guarantees,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Özgür , Peter Kairouz

Estimating causal effects from randomized experiments is only possible if participants are willing to disclose their potentially sensitive responses. Differential privacy, a widely used framework for ensuring an algorithms privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni , Jean Pouget-Abadie