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When applying machine learning to medical image classification, data leakage is a critical issue. Previous methods, such as adding noise to gradients for differential privacy, work well on large datasets like MNIST and CIFAR-100, but fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Xiaobo Huang , Fang Xie

Deep neural networks have strong capabilities of memorizing the underlying training data, which can be a serious privacy concern. An effective solution to this problem is to train models with differential privacy, which provides rigorous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Ergute Bao , Yizheng Zhu , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Beng Chin Ooi , Benjamin Hong Meng Tan , Khin Mi Mi Aung

Gradient leakage attacks are considered one of the wickedest privacy threats in deep learning as attackers covertly spy gradient updates during iterative training without compromising model training quality, and yet secretly reconstruct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu

Recent developments have underscored the critical role of \textit{differential privacy} (DP) in safeguarding individual data for training machine learning models. However, integrating DP oftentimes incurs significant model performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zihao Wang , Rui Zhu , Dongruo Zhou , Zhikun Zhang , John Mitchell , Haixu Tang , XiaoFeng Wang

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

Most existing decentralized learning methods with differential privacy (DP) guarantee rely on constant gradient clipping bounds and fixed-level DP Gaussian noises for each node throughout the training process, leading to a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zehan Zhu , Yan Huang , Xin Wang , Shouling Ji , Jinming Xu

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms face the challenge of providing accurate results while protecting their inputs: the privacy-utility trade-off. A simple but powerful technique for DP adds noise to sensitivity-bounded query outputs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 David M. Sommer , Lukas Abfalterer , Sheila Zingg , Esfandiar Mohammadi

Differentially private (DP) training preserves the data privacy usually at the cost of slower convergence (and thus lower accuracy), as well as more severe mis-calibration than its non-private counterpart. To analyze the convergence of DP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Zhiqi Bu , Hua Wang , Zongyu Dai , Qi Long

We consider three different variants of differential privacy (DP), namely approximate DP, R\'enyi DP (RDP), and hypothesis test DP. In the first part, we develop a machinery for optimally relating approximate DP to RDP based on the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shahab Asoodeh , Jiachun Liao , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a cornerstone technique for ensuring privacy in deep learning, widely used in both training from scratch and fine-tuning large-scale language models. While DP-SGD predominantly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Meisam Mohammady , Qin Yang , Nicholas Stout , Ayesha Samreen , Han Wang , Christopher J Quinn , Yuan Hong

We study private prediction where differential privacy is achieved by adding noise to the outputs of a non-private model. Existing methods rely on noise proportional to the global sensitivity of the model, often resulting in sub-optimal…

A central issue in machine learning is how to train models on sensitive user data. Industry has widely adopted a simple algorithm: Stochastic Gradient Descent with noise (a.k.a. Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics). However, foundational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jason M. Altschuler , Kunal Talwar

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

Training deep learning models with differential privacy (DP) results in a degradation of performance. The training dynamics of models with DP show a significant difference from standard training, whereas understanding the geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Jinseong Park , Hoki Kim , Yujin Choi , Jaewook Lee

While significant progress has been made separately on analytics systems for scalable stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and private SGD, none of the major scalable analytics frameworks have incorporated differentially private SGD. There are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Xi Wu , Fengan Li , Arun Kumar , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Somesh Jha , Jeffrey F. Naughton

Many forms of sensitive data, such as web traffic, mobility data, or hospital occupancy, are inherently sequential. The standard method for training machine learning models while ensuring privacy for units of sensitive information, such as…

The widespread deployment of machine learning (ML) is raising serious concerns on protecting the privacy of users who contributed to the collection of training data. Differential privacy (DP) is rapidly gaining momentum in the industry as a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Beomsik Park , Ranggi Hwang , Dongho Yoon , Yoonhyuk Choi , Minsoo Rhu

Training machine learning models based on neural networks requires large datasets, which may contain sensitive information. The models, however, should not expose private information from these datasets. Differentially private SGD [DP-SGD]…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

Machine learning models can leak information about the data used to train them. To mitigate this issue, Differentially Private (DP) variants of optimization algorithms like Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) have been designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Paul Mangold , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Marc Tommasi

The rise of IoT devices has prompted the demand for deploying machine learning at-the-edge with real-time, efficient, and secure data processing. In this context, implementing machine learning (ML) models with real-valued weight parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Ce Feng , Parv Venkitasubramaniam