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Nowadays, differential privacy (DP) has become a well-accepted standard for privacy protection, and deep neural networks (DNN) have been immensely successful in machine learning. The combination of these two techniques, i.e., deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jianxin Wei , Ergute Bao , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang

In the arena of privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has outstripped the objective perturbation mechanism in popularity and interest. Though unrivaled in versatility, DP-SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Rachel Redberg , Antti Koskela , Yu-Xiang Wang

Recent advances in deep learning have drastically improved performance on many Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. However, the data used to train NLU models may contain private information such as addresses or phone numbers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Christophe Dupuy , Radhika Arava , Rahul Gupta , Anna Rumshisky

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the workhorse algorithm for recent advances in private deep learning. It provides a single privacy guarantee to all datapoints in the dataset. We propose output-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Da Yu , Gautam Kamath , Janardhan Kulkarni , Tie-Yan Liu , Jian Yin , Huishuai Zhang

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) is a variation of stochastic gradient descent based on the Differential Privacy (DP) paradigm, which can mitigate privacy threats that arise from the presence of sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ali Davody , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Thomas Kleinbauer , Dietrich Klakow

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

Training generative models with differential privacy (DP) typically involves injecting noise into gradient updates or adapting the discriminator's training procedure. As a result, such approaches often struggle with hyper-parameter tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kristjan Greenewald , Yuancheng Yu , Hao Wang , Kai Xu

In privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) performs worse than SGD due to per-sample gradient clipping and noise addition. A recent focus in private learning research is improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xinyu Tang , Ashwinee Panda , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Nowadays, owners and developers of deep learning models must consider stringent privacy-preservation rules of their training data, usually crowd-sourced and retaining sensitive information. The most widely adopted method to enforce privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo matteucci

Recently, due to the popularity of deep neural networks and other methods whose training typically relies on the optimization of an objective function, and due to concerns for data privacy, there is a lot of interest in differentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Antoine Barczewski , Jan Ramon

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is known to have poorer training and test performance on large neural networks, compared to ordinary stochastic gradient descent (SGD). In this paper, we perform a detailed study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Lauren Watson , Eric Gan , Mohan Dantam , Baharan Mirzasoleiman , Rik Sarkar

While machine learning has achieved remarkable results in a wide variety of domains, the training of models often requires large datasets that may need to be collected from different individuals. As sensitive information may be contained in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Richeng Jin , Xiaofan He , Huaiyu Dai

Deep learning models leak significant amounts of information about their training datasets. Previous work has investigated training models with differential privacy (DP) guarantees through adding DP noise to the gradients. However, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Milad Nasr , Reza Shokri , Amir houmansadr

Differentially private learning is essential for training models on sensitive data, but empirical studies consistently show that it can degrade performance, introduce fairness issues like disparate impact, and reduce adversarial robustness.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ruichen Xu , Kexin Chen

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee preventing adversaries with access to a machine learning model from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Soham De , Leonard Berrada , Jamie Hayes , Samuel L. Smith , Borja Balle

Privacy in AI remains a topic that draws attention from researchers and the general public in recent years. As one way to implement privacy-preserving AI, differentially private learning is a framework that enables AI models to use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Tianyu Xia , Shuheng Shen , Su Yao , Xinyi Fu , Ke Xu , Xiaolong Xu , Xing Fu

Differentially private gradient descent (DP-GD) is a popular algorithm to train deep learning models with provable guarantees on the privacy of the training data. In the last decade, the problem of understanding its performance cost with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Simone Bombari , Marco Mondelli

Learning often involves sensitive data and as such, privacy preserving extensions to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and other machine learning algorithms have been developed using the definitions of Differential Privacy (DP). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Friedrich Dörmann , Osvald Frisk , Lars Nørvang Andersen , Christian Fischer Pedersen

This paper attempts to answer the question whether neural network pruning can be used as a tool to achieve differential privacy without losing much data utility. As a first step towards understanding the relationship between neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Yangsibo Huang , Yushan Su , Sachin Ravi , Zhao Song , Sanjeev Arora , Kai Li

Modern machine learning algorithms aim to extract fine-grained information from data to provide accurate predictions, which often conflicts with the goal of privacy protection. This paper addresses the practical and theoretical importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-17 Puyu Wang , Yunwen Lei , Yiming Ying , Ding-Xuan Zhou