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Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

This work studies the distributed empirical risk minimization (ERM) problem under differential privacy (DP) constraint. Standard distributed algorithms achieve DP typically by perturbing all local subgradients with noise, leading to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Changxin Liu , Karl H. Johansson , Yang Shi

Differential privacy (DP) is a prominent method for protecting information about individuals during data analysis. Training neural networks with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) influences the model's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lea Demelius , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

Nowadays, the development of information technology is growing rapidly. In the big data era, the privacy of personal information has been more pronounced. The major challenge is to find a way to guarantee that sensitive personal information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Mengde Han , Tianqing Zhu , Wanlei Zhou

We survey distributed deep learning models for training or inference without accessing raw data from clients. These methods aim to protect confidential patterns in data while still allowing servers to train models. The distributed deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Praneeth Vepakomma , Tristan Swedish , Ramesh Raskar , Otkrist Gupta , Abhimanyu Dubey

Convex optimization finds many real-life applications, where--optimized on real data--optimization results may expose private data attributes (e.g., individual health records, commercial information), thus leading to privacy breaches. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Vladimir Dvorkin , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Pierre Pinson , Jalal Kazempour

Communication efficiency and privacy protection are two critical issues in distributed machine learning. Existing methods tackle these two issues separately and may have a high implementation complexity that constrains their application in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Guangfeng Yan , Tan Li , Kui Wu , Linqi Song

Federated learning (FL) emerged as a paradigm designed to improve data privacy by enabling data to reside at its source, thus embedding privacy as a core consideration in FL architectures, whether centralized or decentralized. Contrasting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Mads Græsbøll Christensen , Richard Heusdens

An important problem in deep learning is the privacy and security of neural networks (NNs). Both aspects have long been considered separately. To date, it is still poorly understood how privacy enhancing training affects the robustness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Franziska Boenisch , Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

Distributed machine learning has been widely studied in order to handle exploding amount of data. In this paper, we study an important yet less visited distributed learning problem where features are inherently distributed or vertically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yaochen Hu , Peng Liu , Linglong Kong , Di Niu

Federated Learning allows distributed entities to train a common model collaboratively without sharing their own data. Although it prevents data collection and aggregation by exchanging only parameter updates, it remains vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

In distributed learning settings, models are iteratively updated with shared gradients computed from potentially sensitive user data. While previous work has studied various privacy risks of sharing gradients, our paper aims to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Zhuohang Li , Andrew Lowy , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Bradley Malin , Ye Wang

We study differentially private distributed optimization under communication constraints. A server using SGD for optimization aggregates the client-side local gradients for model updates using distributed mean estimation (DME). We develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Antonious M. Girgis , Suhas Diggavi

Federated learning becomes a prominent approach when different entities want to learn collaboratively a common model without sharing their training data. However, Federated learning has two main drawbacks. First, it is quite bandwidth…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

This paper studies federated learning for nonparametric regression in the context of distributed samples across different servers, each adhering to distinct differential privacy constraints. The setting we consider is heterogeneous,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-12 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

Privacy preservation is becoming an increasingly important issue in data mining and machine learning. In this paper, we consider the privacy preserving features of distributed subgradient optimization algorithms. We first show that a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Youcheng Lou , Lean Yu , Shouyang Wang

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

Publishing open graph data while preserving individual privacy remains challenging when data publishers and data users are distinct entities. Although differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous guarantees, most existing approaches enforce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Muhao Guo , Jiaqi Wu , Yizheng Liao , Wenke Lee , Shengzhe Chen , Yang Weng

Data privacy is an important concern in machine learning, and is fundamentally at odds with the task of training useful learning models, which typically require the acquisition of large amounts of private user data. One possible way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

In the field of machine learning, many problems can be formulated as the minimax problem, including reinforcement learning, generative adversarial networks, to just name a few. So the minimax problem has attracted a huge amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yilin Kang , Yong Liu , Jian Li , Weiping Wang