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Machine learning techniques based on neural networks are achieving remarkable results in a wide variety of domains. Often, the training of models requires large, representative datasets, which may be crowdsourced and contain sensitive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-21 Martín Abadi , Andy Chu , Ian Goodfellow , H. Brendan McMahan , Ilya Mironov , Kunal Talwar , Li Zhang

We propose the differentially private lottery ticket mechanism (DPLTM). An end-to-end differentially private training paradigm based on the lottery ticket hypothesis. Using "high-quality winners", selected via our custom score function,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Lovedeep Gondara , Ke Wang , Ricardo Silva Carvalho

In this paper, we consider the problem of responding to a count query (or any other integer-valued queries) evaluated on a dataset containing sensitive attributes. To protect the privacy of individuals in the dataset, a standard practice is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Parastoo Sadeghi , Shahab Asoodeh , Flavio du Pin Calmon

Multi-label learning has attracted the attention of the machine learning community. The problem conversion method Binary Relevance converts a familiar single label into a multi-label algorithm. The binary relevance method is widely used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Yanghong Liu , Jia Lu , Tingting Li

We provide an end-to-end Renyi DP based-framework for differentially private top-$k$ selection. Unlike previous approaches, which require a data-independent choice on $k$, we propose to privately release a data-dependent choice of $k$ such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Yuqing Zhu , Yu-Xiang Wang

Eliciting reliable human feedback is essential for many machine learning tasks, such as learning from noisy labels and aligning AI systems with human preferences. Peer prediction mechanisms incentivize truthful reporting without ground…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yichi Zhang , Shengwei Xu , David Pennock , Grant Schoenebeck

There is great demand for scalable, secure, and efficient privacy-preserving machine learning models that can be trained over distributed data. While deep learning models typically achieve the best results in a centralized non-secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Samuel Maddock , Graham Cormode , Tianhao Wang , Carsten Maple , Somesh Jha

Organizations increasingly deploy multiple AI systems across task domains, but selecting a small, high-performing ensemble can require costly model calls, benchmark runs, and human evaluation. We study this selection problem as a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Tzeh Yuan Neoh , Nicholas Teh , Je Qin Chooi , Paul W. Goldberg , Milind Tambe

Deep neural networks with their large number of parameters are highly flexible learning systems. The high flexibility in such networks brings with some serious problems such as overfitting, and regularization is used to address this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-20 Beyza Ermis , Ali Taylan Cemgil

Several domains increasingly rely on machine learning in their applications. The resulting heavy dependence on data has led to the emergence of various laws and regulations around data ethics and privacy and growing awareness of the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Sofiane Ouaari , Ali Burak Ünal , Mete Akgün , Nico Pfeifer

We focus on the scenario in which an agent can exploit his information advantage to manipulate the outcome of an election. In particular, we study district-based elections with two candidates, in which the winner of the election is the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Matteo Castiglioni , Nicola Gatti

Federated learning has gained great attention recently as a privacy-enhancing tool to jointly train a machine learning model by multiple parties. As a sub-category, vertical federated learning (vFL) focuses on the scenario where features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jiankai Sun , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Junyuan Xie , Di Wu , Chong Wang

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

Modern datasets are becoming heterogeneous. To this end, we present in this paper Mixed-Variate Restricted Boltzmann Machines for simultaneously modelling variables of multiple types and modalities, including binary and continuous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-08-07 Truyen Tran , Dinh Phung , Svetha Venkatesh

In machine learning, privacy requirements at inference or deployment time often evolve due to changing policies, regulations, or user preferences. In this work, we aim to construct a magnitude of models to satisfy any target differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Qichuan Yin , Manzil Zaheer , Tian Li

During the past decade, differential privacy has become the gold standard for protecting the privacy of individuals. However, verifying that a particular program provides differential privacy often remains a manual task to be completed by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Joseph P. Near , David Darais , Chike Abuah , Tim Stevens , Pranav Gaddamadugu , Lun Wang , Neel Somani , Mu Zhang , Nikhil Sharma , Alex Shan , Dawn Song

Differential privacy is becoming one gold standard for protecting the privacy of publicly shared data. It has been widely used in social science, data science, public health, information technology, and the U.S. decennial census.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xuan Bi , Xiaotong Shen

We consider a federated data analytics problem in which a server coordinates the collaborative data analysis of multiple users with privacy concerns and limited communication capability. The commonly adopted compression schemes introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Richeng Jin , Zhonggen Su , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Tony Quek , Huaiyu Dai

Machine learning models are vulnerable to data inference attacks, such as membership inference and model inversion attacks. In these types of breaches, an adversary attempts to infer a data record's membership in a dataset or even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Dayong Ye , Sheng Shen , Tianqing Zhu , Bo Liu , Wanlei Zhou

Machine learning is increasingly used in the most diverse applications and domains, whether in healthcare, to predict pathologies, or in the financial sector to detect fraud. One of the linchpins for efficiency and accuracy in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Tânia Carvalho , Nuno Moniz , Pedro Faria , Luís Antunes