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To mitigate the rising concern about privacy leakage, the federated recommender (FR) paradigm emerges, in which decentralized clients co-train the recommendation model without exposing their raw user-item rating data. The differentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xianzhi Zhang , Yipeng Zhou , Miao Hu , Di Wu , Pengshan Liao , Mohsen Guizani , Michael Sheng

The increased application of machine learning (ML) in sensitive domains requires protecting the training data through privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). DP requires to specify a uniform privacy level $\varepsilon$ that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Krishna Acharya , Franziska Boenisch , Rakshit Naidu , Juba Ziani

Decentralized min-max optimization allows multi-agent systems to collaboratively solve global min-max optimization problems by facilitating the exchange of model updates among neighboring agents, eliminating the need for a central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yueyang Quan , Chang Wang , Shengjie Zhai , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu

Previous work on user-level differential privacy (DP) [Ghazi et al. NeurIPS 2021, Bun et al. STOC 2023] obtained generic algorithms that work for various learning tasks. However, their focus was on the example-rich regime, where the users…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Raghu Meka , Chiyuan Zhang

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion for quantifying the privacy loss of algorithms. Algorithms in the central model of DP achieve high accuracy but make the strongest trust assumptions whereas those in the local DP model make the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Rasmus Pagh

We consider the problem of model selection in a high-dimensional sparse linear regression model under privacy constraints. We propose a differentially private (DP) best subset selection method with strong statistical utility properties by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-30 Saptarshi Roy , Zehua Wang , Ambuj Tewari

Differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous privacy guarantees on individual's data while also allowing for accurate statistics to be conducted on the overall, sensitive dataset. To design a private system, first private algorithms must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mark Cesar , Ryan Rogers

Stochastic optimization is a pivotal enabler in modern machine learning, producing effective models for various tasks. However, several existing works have shown that model parameters and gradient information are susceptible to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhanhong Jiang , Md Zahid Hasan , Nastaran Saadati , Aditya Balu , Chao Liu , Soumik Sarkar

In recent years, the financial sector has faced growing pressure to adopt advanced machine learning models to derive valuable insights while preserving data privacy. However, the highly sensitive nature of financial data presents…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Peilin He , Chenkai Lin , Isabella Montoya

Differentially private federated learning (DP-FL) enables clients to collaboratively train machine learning models while preserving the privacy of their local data. However, most existing DP-FL approaches assume that all clients share a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruichen Xu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Jianwei Huang

Privacy-preserving vector mean estimation is a crucial primitive in federated analytics. Existing practices usually resort to Local Differentiated Privacy (LDP) mechanisms that inject random noise into users' vectors when communicating with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Jingyi Li , Guangjing Huang , Liekang Zeng , Lin Chen , Xu Chen

There has been an explosion of research on differential privacy (DP) and its various applications in recent years, ranging from novel variants and accounting techniques in differential privacy to the thriving field of differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Saswat Das , Subhankar Mishra

Differential privacy (DP) is a gold-standard concept of measuring and guaranteeing privacy in data analysis. It is well-known that the cost of adding DP to deep learning model is its accuracy. However, it remains unclear how it affects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Nurislam Tursynbek , Aleksandr Petiushko , Ivan Oseledets

In collaborative learning (CL), multiple parties jointly train a machine learning model on their private datasets. However, data can not be shared directly due to privacy concerns. To ensure input confidentiality, cryptographic techniques,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Francesco Capano , Jonas Böhler , Benjamin Weggenmann

Differential privacy (DP) has been applied in deep learning for preserving privacy of the underlying training sets. Existing DP practice falls into three categories - objective perturbation, gradient perturbation and output perturbation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Zhigang Lu , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Darren Webb , Peter Dickinson

Broad adoption of machine learning techniques has increased privacy concerns for models trained on sensitive data such as medical records. Existing techniques for training differentially private (DP) models give rigorous privacy guarantees,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-10-04 Zhengli Zhao , Nicolas Papernot , Sameer Singh , Neoklis Polyzotis , Augustus Odena

Communication lays the foundation for cooperation in human society and in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Humans also desire to maintain their privacy when communicating with others, yet such privacy concern has not been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Canzhe Zhao , Yanjie Ze , Jing Dong , Baoxiang Wang , Shuai Li

Recent developments have underscored the critical role of \textit{differential privacy} (DP) in safeguarding individual data for training machine learning models. However, integrating DP oftentimes incurs significant model performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zihao Wang , Rui Zhu , Dongruo Zhou , Zhikun Zhang , John Mitchell , Haixu Tang , XiaoFeng Wang

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 the problem of secret protection, in which a business or organization wishes to train a model on their own data, while attempting to not leak secrets potentially contained in that data via the model. The standard method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Arun Ganesh , Brendan McMahan , Milad Nasr , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta