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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

The rise of connected personal devices together with privacy concerns call for machine learning algorithms capable of leveraging the data of a large number of agents to learn personalized models under strong privacy requirements. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Mahsa Taziki , Marc Tommasi

We study the application of differential privacy in hyper-parameter tuning, a crucial process in machine learning involving selecting the best hyper-parameter from several candidates. Unlike many private learning algorithms, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Chenglong Wang , Di Wang

Federated learning enhanced with Differential Privacy (DP) is a powerful privacy-preserving strategy to protect individuals sharing their sensitive data for processing in fields such as medicine and healthcare. Many medical applications,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Anneliese Riess , Alexander Ziller , Stefan Kolek , Daniel Rueckert , Julia Schnabel , Georgios Kaissis

We construct a universally Bayes consistent learning rule that satisfies differential privacy (DP). We first handle the setting of binary classification and then extend our rule to the more general setting of density estimation (with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Olivier Bousquet , Haim Kaplan , Aryeh Kontorovich , Yishay Mansour , Shay Moran , Menachem Sadigurschi , Uri Stemmer

Differentially private (DP) optimization is the standard paradigm to learn large neural networks that are accurate and privacy-preserving. The computational cost for DP deep learning, however, is notoriously heavy due to the per-sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Zhiqi Bu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Sheng Zha , George Karypis

A critical concern in data-driven decision making is to build models whose outcomes do not discriminate against some demographic groups, including gender, ethnicity, or age. To ensure non-discrimination in learning tasks, knowledge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Cuong Tran , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Training machine learning models with differential privacy (DP) limits an adversary's ability to infer sensitive information about the training data. It can be interpreted as a bound on adversary's capability to distinguish two adjacent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gauri Pradhan , Joonas Jälkö , Santiago Zanella-Béguelin , Antti Honkela

Personalized privacy becomes critical in deep learning for Trustworthy AI. While Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used in deep learning methods supporting privacy, it provides the same level of privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Geon Heo , Junseok Seo , Steven Euijong Whang

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

Machine learning (ML) classifiers are invaluable building blocks that have been used in many fields. High quality training dataset collected from multiple data providers is essential to train accurate classifiers. However, it raises concern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Xiangyun Tang , Liehuang Zhu , Meng Shen , Xiaojiang Du

Federated learning (FL) has great potential for large-scale machine learning (ML) without exposing raw data.Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto standard of privacy protection with provable guarantees.Advances in ML suggest that DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Xuebin Ren , Shusen Yang , Cong Zhao , Julie McCann , Zongben Xu

It has been demonstrated that hidden representation learned by a deep model can encode private information of the input, hence can be exploited to recover such information with reasonable accuracy. To address this issue, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Lingjuan Lyu , Xuanli He , Yitong Li

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for training machine learning models in a distributed and collaborative manner. During training, a set of participating clients process their data stored locally, sharing only the model updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Filippo Galli , Kangsoo Jung , Sayan Biswas , Catuscia Palamidessi , Tommaso Cucinotta

Artificial Intelligence (AI) models are vulnerable to information leakage of their training data, which can be highly sensitive, for example in medical imaging. Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs), such as Differential Privacy (DP), aim…

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

While significant progress has been made in conventional fairness-aware machine learning (ML) and differentially private ML (DPML), the fairness of privacy protection across groups remains underexplored. Existing studies have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhi Yang , Changwu Huang , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

Pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) are an integral part of modern AI that have led to breakthrough performances in complex AI tasks. Major AI companies with expensive infrastructures are able to develop and train these large models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Rouzbeh Behnia , Mohamamdreza Ebrahimi , Jason Pacheco , Balaji Padmanabhan

An important use of private data is to build machine learning classifiers. While there is a burgeoning literature on differentially private classification algorithms, we find that they are not practical in real applications due to two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Ben Stoddard , Yan Chen , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Split learning (SL) aims to protect user data privacy by distributing deep models between client-server and keeping private data locally. Only processed or `smashed' data can be transmitted from the clients to the server during the SL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Ngoc Duy Pham , Khoa Tran Phan , Naveen Chilamkurti