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Critical to a free data market is $\textit{private data selection}$, i.e. the model owner selects and then appraises training data from the data owner before both parties commit to a transaction. To keep the data and model private, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xu Ouyang , Felix Xiaozhu Lin , Yangfeng Ji

Transformer-based models have been achieving state-of-the-art results in several fields of Natural Language Processing. However, its direct application to speech tasks is not trivial. The nature of this sequences carries problems such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Gerard Sant , Gerard I. Gállego , Belen Alastruey , Marta R. Costa-Jussà

Large convolutional neural networks (CNN) can be difficult to train in the differentially private (DP) regime, since the optimization algorithms require a computationally expensive operation, known as the per-sample gradient clipping. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Zhiqi Bu , Jialin Mao , Shiyun Xu

In this work, we analyze the optimization behaviour of common private learning optimization algorithms under heavy-tail class imbalanced distribution. We show that, in a stylized model, optimizing with Gradient Descent with differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Qiaoyue Tang , Alain Zhiyanov , Mathias Lécuyer

We address nonconvex learning problems over undirected networks. In particular, we focus on the challenge of designing an algorithm that is both communication-efficient and that guarantees the privacy of the agents' data. The first goal is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Xiaoxing Ren , Yuwen Ma , Nicola Bastianello , Karl H. Johansson , Thomas Parisini , Andreas A. Malikopoulos

Transformers have achieved promising results on a variety of tasks. However, the quadratic complexity in self-attention computation has limited the applications, especially in low-resource settings and mobile or edge devices. Existing works…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Wentao Zhu

Models need to be trained with privacy-preserving learning algorithms to prevent leakage of possibly sensitive information contained in their training data. However, canonical algorithms like differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yannis Cattan , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Nicolas Papernot , Abhradeep Thakurta

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

Differentially private wireless federated learning (DPWFL) is a promising framework for protecting sensitive user data. However, foundational questions on how to precisely characterize privacy loss remain open, and existing work is further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chen Yaoling , Liang Hao , Tu Xiaotong

Per-example gradient clipping is a key algorithmic step that enables practical differential private (DP) training for deep learning models. The choice of clipping threshold R, however, is vital for achieving high accuracy under DP. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zhiqi Bu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Sheng Zha , George Karypis

Sequential user behavior modeling plays a crucial role in online user-oriented services, such as product purchasing, news feed consumption, and online advertising. The performance of sequential modeling heavily depends on the scale and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jianwen Yin , Chenghao Liu , Weiqing Wang , Jianling Sun , Steven C. H. Hoi

Data privacy and class imbalance are the norm rather than the exception in many machine learning tasks. Recent attempts have been launched to, on one side, address the problem of learning from pervasive private data, and on the other side,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Zihan Chen , Songshang Liu , Hualiang Wang , Howard H. Yang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zuozhu Liu

One of the big challenges in machine learning applications is that training data can be different from the real-world data faced by the algorithm. In language modeling, users' language (e.g. in private messaging) could change in a year and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Vadim Popov , Mikhail Kudinov , Irina Piontkovskaya , Petr Vytovtov , Alex Nevidomsky

Long-sequence video diffusion transformers hit a quadratic self-attention cost that dominates runtime and memory for very long token sequences. Most efficient attention methods use one approximation everywhere, yet video features are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Haopeng Jin

Privacy-preserving deep learning is crucial for deploying deep neural network based solutions, especially when the model works on data that contains sensitive information. Most privacy-preserving methods lead to undesirable performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Lichao Sun , Yingbo Zhou , Ji Wang , Jia Li , Richard Sochar , Philip S. Yu , Caiming Xiong

Egocentric temporal action segmentation in videos is a crucial task in computer vision with applications in various fields such as mixed reality, human behavior analysis, and robotics. Although recent research has utilized advanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Sakib Reza , Balaji Sundareshan , Mohsen Moghaddam , Octavia Camps

The Transformer architecture yields state-of-the-art results in many tasks such as natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV), since the ability to efficiently capture the precise long-range dependency coupling between input…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Peiwang Tang , Xianchao Zhang

Transformers have become the dominant architecture across a wide range of domains, largely due to the effectiveness of multi-head attention in capturing diverse representation subspaces. However, standard multi-head attention activates all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Bilal Faye , Abdoulaye Mbaye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

Providing privacy protection has been one of the primary motivations of Federated Learning (FL). Recently, there has been a line of work on incorporating the formal privacy notion of differential privacy with FL. To guarantee the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Xinwei Zhang , Xiangyi Chen , Mingyi Hong , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Jinfeng Yi

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) fine-tuning of large pre-trained models -- a recent privacy-preserving approach suitable for solving downstream tasks with sensitive data. Existing work has demonstrated that high accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhiqi Bu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Sheng Zha , George Karypis