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Training differentially private machine learning models requires constraining an individual's contribution to the optimization process. This is achieved by clipping the $2$-norm of their gradient at a predetermined threshold prior to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Filippo Galli , Catuscia Palamidessi , Tommaso Cucinotta

Black-box machine learning models are used in critical decision-making domains, giving rise to several calls for more algorithmic transparency. The drawback is that model explanations can leak information about the training data and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Neel Patel , Reza Shokri , Yair Zick

Local differential privacy (LDP) enables private data sharing and analytics without the need for a trusted data collector. Error-optimal primitives (for, e.g., estimating means and item frequencies) under LDP have been well studied. For…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zhuolun Xiang , Bolin Ding , Xi He , Jingren Zhou

Differentially private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has become integral to privacy-preserving machine learning, ensuring robust privacy guarantees in sensitive domains. Despite notable empirical advances leveraging features from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Meng Ding , Mingxi Lei , Shaopeng Fu , Shaowei Wang , Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a rigorous framework for privacy, ensuring the outputs of data-driven algorithms remain statistically indistinguishable across datasets that differ in a single entry. While guaranteeing DP generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yizhou Zhang , Kishan Panaganti , Laixi Shi , Juba Ziani , Adam Wierman

Empirical auditing has emerged as a means of catching some of the flaws in the implementation of privacy-preserving algorithms. Existing auditing mechanisms, however, are either computationally inefficient requiring multiple runs of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Saeed Mahloujifar , Luca Melis , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Commercial companies that collect user data on a large scale have been the main beneficiaries of this trend since the success of deep learning techniques is directly proportional to the amount of data available for training. Massive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Saichethan Miriyala Reddy , Saisree Miriyala

In this work we address the practical challenges of training machine learning models on privacy-sensitive datasets by introducing a modular approach that minimizes changes to training algorithms, provides a variety of configuration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 H. Brendan McMahan , Galen Andrew , Ulfar Erlingsson , Steve Chien , Ilya Mironov , Nicolas Papernot , Peter Kairouz

Predictor screening rules, which discard predictors before fitting a model, have had considerable impact on the speed with which sparse regression problems, such as the lasso, can be solved. In this paper we present a new screening rule for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-14 Johan Larsson , Jonas Wallin

We address the challenge of solving machine learning tasks using data from privacy-sensitive sellers. Since the data is private, we design a data market that incentivizes sellers to provide their data in exchange for payments. Therefore our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ameya Anjarlekar , Rasoul Etesami , R. Srikant

Privacy-preserving regression in machine learning is a crucial area of research, aimed at enabling the use of powerful machine learning techniques while protecting individuals' privacy. In this paper, we implement privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 John Chiang

We introduce a differentially private manifold denoising framework that allows users to exploit sensitive reference datasets to correct noisy, non-private query points without compromising privacy. The method follows an iterative procedure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiaqi Wu , Yiqing Sun , Zhigang Yao

A continuing challenge for machine learning is providing methods to perform computation on data while ensuring the data remains private. In this paper we build on the provable privacy guarantees of differential privacy which has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Michael Thomas Smith , Mauricio A. Alvarez , Neil D. Lawrence

Decision trees are interpretable models that are well-suited to non-linear learning problems. Much work has been done on extending decision tree learning algorithms with differential privacy, a system that guarantees the privacy of samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Daniël Vos , Jelle Vos , Tianyu Li , Zekeriya Erkin , Sicco Verwer

Nowadays, the utilization of the ever expanding amount of data has made a huge impact on web technologies while also causing various types of security concerns. On one hand, potential gains are highly anticipated if different organizations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Chaochao Chen , Liang Li , Wenjing Fang , Jun Zhou , Li Wang , Lei Wang , Shuang Yang , Alex Liu , Hao Wang

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard of privacy preservation due to its strong protection and sound mathematical foundation, which is widely adopted in different applications such as big data analysis, graph data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Honglu Jiang , Yifeng Gao , S M Sarwar , Luis GarzaPerez , Mahmudul Robin

Differential privacy enables organizations to collect accurate aggregates over sensitive data with strong, rigorous guarantees on individuals' privacy. Previous work has found that under differential privacy, computing multiple correlated…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Ganzhao Yuan , Yin Yang , Zhenjie Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

With the development of big data and machine learning, privacy concerns have become increasingly critical, especially when handling heterogeneous datasets containing sensitive personal information. Differential privacy provides a rigorous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-08 Ziliang Shen , Caixing Wang , Shaoli Wang , Yibo Yan

The sensitivity metric in differential privacy, which is informally defined as the largest marginal change in output between neighboring databases, is of substantial significance in determining the accuracy of private data analyses.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Rachel Cummings , David Durfee

The growing concern about data privacy has led to the development of private inference (PI) frameworks in client-server applications which protects both data privacy and model IP. However, the cryptographic primitives required yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Sreetama Sarkar , Souvik Kundu , Peter A. Beerel