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Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is a standard approach to privacy-preserving learning based on per-example clipping, subsampling, Gaussian perturbation, and privacy accounting. Classical DP-SGD releases a noisy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia

In Federated Learning (FL), multiple clients jointly train a machine learning model by sharing gradient information, instead of raw data, with a server over multiple rounds. To address the possibility of information leakage in spite of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yashwant Krishna Pagoti , Arunesh Sinha , Shamik Sural

In this paper, we investigate federated learning for quantile inference under local differential privacy (LDP). We propose an estimator based on local stochastic gradient descent (SGD), whose local gradients are perturbed via a randomized…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-29 Leheng Cai , Qirui Hu , Shuyuan Wu

The Noisy-SGD algorithm is widely used for privately training machine learning models. Traditional privacy analyses of this algorithm assume that the internal state is publicly revealed, resulting in privacy loss bounds that increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shahab Asoodeh , Mario Diaz

With the growing concern about the security and privacy of smart grid systems, cyberattacks on critical power grid components, such as state estimation, have proven to be one of the top-priority cyber-related issues and have received…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Haftu Tasew Reda , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) enables private deep learning through per-example clipping and calibrated Gaussian noise, but its high-variance updates can reduce utility on challenging datasets. We propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia

Privacy preservation in machine learning, particularly through Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), is critical for sensitive data analysis. However, existing statistical inference methods for SGD predominantly focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-15 Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang , Zhanrui Cai

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

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training among multiple clients without the need to expose raw data. Its ability to safeguard privacy, at the heart of FL, has recently been a hot-button debate topic. To elaborate,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Mingyuan Fan , Fuyi Wang , Cen Chen , Jianying Zhou

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

Federated learning (FL) allows to train a massive amount of data privately due to its decentralized structure. Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is commonly used for FL due to its good empirical performance, but sensitive user information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Muah Kim , Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer

Conventional gradient-sharing approaches for federated learning (FL), such as FedAvg, rely on aggregation of local models and often face performance degradation under differential privacy (DP) mechanisms or data heterogeneity, which can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Hui-Po Wang , Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

Federated learning is a machine learning setting where a set of edge devices collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a central server without sharing their local data. At each communication round of federated learning, edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Rui Hu , Yuanxiong Guo , Yanmin Gong

As the use of large embedding models in recommendation systems and language applications increases, concerns over user data privacy have also risen. DP-SGD, a training algorithm that combines differential privacy with stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Badih Ghazi , Yangsibo Huang , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

Differential privacy (DP) provides a provable framework for protecting individuals by customizing a random mechanism over a privacy-sensitive dataset. Deep learning models have demonstrated privacy risks in model exposure as an established…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yu Zheng , Wenchao Zhang , Yonggang Zhang , Yuxiang Peng , Wei Song , Kai Zhou , Xiaojiang Du , Bo Han

Diffusion models are becoming defector generative models, which generate exceptionally high-resolution image data. Training effective diffusion models require massive real data, which is privately owned by distributed parties. Each data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Jiyue Huang , Chi Hong , Lydia Y. Chen , Stefanie Roos

Distributed stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has attracted considerable recent attention due to its potential for scaling computational resources, reducing training time, and helping protect user privacy in machine learning. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Siyuan Yu , Wei Chen , H. Vincent Poor

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has been widely adopted in deep learning to provide rigorously defined privacy, which requires gradient clipping to bound the maximum norm of individual gradients and additive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Junyi Zhu , Matthew B. Blaschko

Federated learning (FL) faces two primary challenges: the risk of privacy leakage due to parameter sharing and communication inefficiencies. To address these challenges, we propose DPSFL, a federated learning method that utilizes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Meifan Zhang , Zhanhong Xie , Lihua Yin

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