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Motivated by high-stakes decision-making domains like personalized medicine where user information is inherently sensitive, we design privacy preserving exploration policies for episodic reinforcement learning (RL). We first provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Giuseppe Vietri , Borja Balle , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Reinforcement learning algorithms are widely used in domains where it is desirable to provide a personalized service. In these domains it is common that user data contains sensitive information that needs to be protected from third parties.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Evrard Garcelon , Vianney Perchet , Ciara Pike-Burke , Matteo Pirotta

We study regret minimization under privacy constraints in episodic inhomogeneous linear Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), motivated by the growing use of reinforcement learning (RL) in personalized decision-making systems that rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sharan Sahu

Motivated by the wide adoption of reinforcement learning (RL) in real-world personalized services, where users' sensitive and private information needs to be protected, we study regret minimization in finite-horizon Markov decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Xingyu Zhou

We study regret minimization in finite horizon tabular Markov decision processes (MDPs) under the constraints of differential privacy (DP). This is motivated by the widespread applications of reinforcement learning (RL) in real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Xingyu Zhou

We study the problem of multi-agent reinforcement learning (multi-agent RL) with differential privacy (DP) constraints. This is well-motivated by various real-world applications involving sensitive data, where it is critical to protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Dan Qiao , Yu-Xiang Wang

We study privacy-preserving exploration in sequential decision-making for environments that rely on sensitive data such as medical records. In particular, we focus on solving the problem of reinforcement learning (RL) subject to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Dung Daniel Ngo , Giuseppe Vietri , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We consider the well-studied dueling bandit problem, where a learner aims to identify near-optimal actions using pairwise comparisons, under the constraint of differential privacy. We consider a general class of utility-based preference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Aadirupa Saha , Hilal Asi

This paper studies privacy-preserving exploration in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with linear representation. We first consider the setting of linear-mixture MDPs (Ayoub et al., 2020) (a.k.a.\ model-based setting) and provide an unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Paul Luyo , Evrard Garcelon , Alessandro Lazaric , Matteo Pirotta

We present the first theoretical guarantees for differentially private online reinforcement learning (RL) with general function approximation, extending beyond prior work restricted to tabular and linear settings. Our approach combines a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yi He , Xingyu Zhou

In this paper, we study the problem of regret minimization in reinforcement learning (RL) under differential privacy constraints. This work is motivated by the wide range of RL applications for providing personalized service, where privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Xingyu Zhou , Ness Shroff

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can be used to provide personalized services, which rely on users' private and sensitive data. To protect the users' privacy, privacy-preserving RL algorithms are in demand. In this paper, we study RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Chonghua Liao , Jiafan He , Quanquan Gu

We consider online learning problems in the realizable setting, where there is a zero-loss solution, and propose new Differentially Private (DP) algorithms that obtain near-optimal regret bounds. For the problem of online prediction from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Hilal Asi , Vitaly Feldman , Tomer Koren , Kunal Talwar

In this paper, we study the problem of (finite horizon tabular) Markov decision processes (MDPs) with heavy-tailed rewards under the constraint of differential privacy (DP). Compared with the previous studies for private reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yulian Wu , Xingyu Zhou , Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Di Wang

We study stochastic decision-theoretic online learning with full information and event-level pure differential privacy. A COLT open problem of Hu and Mehta asks to determine the optimal gap-dependent regret rate for stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tommaso Cesari , Roberto Colomboni

We design differentially private algorithms for the problem of online linear optimization in the full information and bandit settings with optimal $\tilde{O}(\sqrt{T})$ regret bounds. In the full-information setting, our results demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Naman Agarwal , Karan Singh

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful tool for sequential decision-making, but its application is often hindered by privacy concerns arising from its interaction data. This challenge is particularly acute in advanced networked systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shaojie Bai , Mohammad Sadegh Talebi , Chengcheng Zhao , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

In this paper, we study differentially private online learning problems in a stochastic environment under both bandit and full information feedback. For differentially private stochastic bandits, we propose both UCB and Thompson…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Bingshan Hu , Zhiming Huang , Nishant A. Mehta , Nidhi Hegde

Based on differential privacy (DP) framework, we introduce and unify privacy definitions for the multi-armed bandit algorithms. We represent the framework with a unified graphical model and use it to connect privacy definitions. We derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Debabrota Basu , Christos Dimitrakakis , Aristide Tossou

The offline reinforcement learning (RL) problem is often motivated by the need to learn data-driven decision policies in financial, legal and healthcare applications. However, the learned policy could retain sensitive information of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Dan Qiao , Yu-Xiang Wang
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