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Privacy and interpretability are two important ingredients for achieving trustworthy machine learning. We study the interplay of these two aspects in graph machine learning through graph reconstruction attacks. The goal of the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Mandeep Rathee , Thorben Funke , Megha Khosla

Graph Neural Networks have achieved tremendous success in modeling complex graph data in a variety of applications. However, there are limited studies investigating privacy protection in GNNs. In this work, we propose a learning framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Karuna Bhaila , Wen Huang , Yongkai Wu , Xintao Wu

Protecting data privacy in deep learning (DL) is of crucial importance. Several celebrated privacy notions have been established and used for privacy-preserving DL. However, many existing mechanisms achieve privacy at the cost of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Wenqi Tao , Huaming Ling , Zuoqiang Shi , Bao Wang

Distributed (or Federated) learning enables users to train machine learning models on their very own devices, while they share only the gradients of their models usually in a differentially private way (utility loss). Although such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Ioannis Arapakis , Panagiotis Papadopoulos , Kleomenis Katevas , Diego Perino

Federated learning is a promising framework for learning over decentralized data spanning multiple regions. This approach avoids expensive central training data aggregation cost and can improve privacy because distributed sites do not have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Beomyeol Jeon , S. M. Ferdous , Muntasir Raihan Rahman , Anwar Walid

Federated learning aims to protect data privacy by collaboratively learning a model without sharing private data among users. However, an adversary may still be able to infer the private training data by attacking the released model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Zhicong Liang , Bao Wang , Quanquan Gu , Stanley Osher , Yuan Yao

Modern deep learning techniques focus on extracting intricate information from data to achieve accurate predictions. However, the training datasets may be crowdsourced and include sensitive information, such as personal contact details,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Zhongjie Shi , Puyu Wang , Chenyang Zhang , Yuan Cao

In this paper, we apply machine learning to distributed private data owned by multiple data owners, entities with access to non-overlapping training datasets. We use noisy, differentially-private gradients to minimize the fitness cost of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Nan Wu , Farhad Farokhi , David Smith , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

To mitigate privacy leakage and performance issues in personalized advertising, this paper proposes a framework that integrates federated learning and differential privacy. The system combines distributed feature extraction, dynamic privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Xiang Li , Yifan Lin , Yuanzhe Zhang

We study gradient descent under linearly correlated noise. Our work is motivated by recent practical methods for optimization with differential privacy (DP), such as DP-FTRL, which achieve strong performance in settings where privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anastasia Koloskova , Ryan McKenna , Zachary Charles , Keith Rush , Brendan McMahan

In distributed optimization and iterative consensus literature, a standard problem is for $N$ agents to minimize a function $f$ over a subset of Euclidean space, where the cost function is expressed as a sum $\sum f_i$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Nitin Vaidya

Training deep learning models with differential privacy (DP) results in a degradation of performance. The training dynamics of models with DP show a significant difference from standard training, whereas understanding the geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jinseong Park , Hoki Kim , Yujin Choi , Jaewook Lee

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

Parameter-transfer is a well-known and versatile approach for meta-learning, with applications including few-shot learning, federated learning, and reinforcement learning. However, parameter-transfer algorithms often require sharing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jeffrey Li , Mikhail Khodak , Sebastian Caldas , Ameet Talwalkar

Learning a privacy-preserving model from sensitive data which are distributed across multiple devices is an increasingly important problem. The problem is often formulated in the federated learning context, with the aim of learning a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Matthew Ashman , Siddharth Swaroop , Richard E. Turner , Antti Honkela

Federated Learning (FL) solutions with central Differential Privacy (DP) have seen large improvements in their utility in recent years arising from the matrix mechanism, while FL solutions with distributed (more private) DP have lagged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Alexander Bienstock , Ujjwal Kumar , Antigoni Polychroniadou

Federated learning suffers from several privacy-related issues that expose the participants to various threats. A number of these issues are aggravated by the centralized architecture of federated learning. In this paper, we discuss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Aidmar Wainakh , Alejandro Sanchez Guinea , Tim Grube , Max Mühlhäuser

Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By constructing random local aggregators, we propose a framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hanshen Xiao , Yu Ye , Srinivas Devadas

Organizations are collecting vast amounts of data, but they often lack the capabilities needed to fully extract insights. As a result, they increasingly share data with external experts, such as analysts or researchers, to gain value from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yusi Wei , Hande Y. Benson , Joseph K. Agor , Muge Capan

This study examines a resource-sharing problem involving multiple parties that agree to use a set of capacities together. We start with modeling the whole problem as a mathematical program, where all parties are required to exchange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Utku Karaca , Nursen Aydin , Sinan Yildirim , S. Ilker Birbil