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While machine learning has achieved remarkable results in a wide variety of domains, the training of models often requires large datasets that may need to be collected from different individuals. As sensitive information may be contained in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Richeng Jin , Xiaofan He , Huaiyu Dai

We introduce the multi-dimensional Skellam mechanism, a discrete differential privacy mechanism based on the difference of two independent Poisson random variables. To quantify its privacy guarantees, we analyze the privacy loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Naman Agarwal , Peter Kairouz , Ziyu Liu

We propose a differentially private data generation paradigm using random feature representations of kernel mean embeddings when comparing the distribution of true data with that of synthetic data. We exploit the random feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Frederik Harder , Kamil Adamczewski , Mijung Park

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the canonical approach to private deep learning. While the current privacy analysis of DP-SGD is known to be tight in some settings, several empirical results suggest that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Anvith Thudi , Hengrui Jia , Casey Meehan , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot

We present a modular hierarchy of private delegated quantum computation protocols tailored to user-level and industry-level settings and parameterized by the quantum resources available to the client. For each protocol, we specify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Alejandro Mata Ali , Adriano Mauricio Lusso , Edgar Mencia

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

Distributed stochastic optimization enables multi-agent collaboration in applications such as distributed learning and sensor networks, but also raises critical privacy concerns due to the involvement of sensitive data. While existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Haoqiang Zhou , Chi Chen , Yongfeng Zhi , Huan Gao

Differential privacy (DP) is a popular mechanism for training machine learning models with bounded leakage about the presence of specific points in the training data. The cost of differential privacy is a reduction in the model's accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

There are now several large scale deployments of differential privacy used to collect statistical information about users. However, these deployments periodically recollect the data and recompute the statistics using algorithms designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Matthew Joseph , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman , Bo Waggoner

Label differential privacy (label-DP) is a popular framework for training private ML models on datasets with public features and sensitive private labels. Despite its rigorous privacy guarantee, it has been observed that in practice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ruihan Wu , Jin Peng Zhou , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Chuan Guo

In this paper, we aim to tackle the one-shot person re-identification problem where only one image is labelled for each person, while other images are unlabelled. This task is challenging due to the lack of sufficient labelled training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Hui Li , Jimin Xiao , Mingjie Sun , Eng Gee Lim , Yao Zhao

The privacy leakage of the model about the training data can be bounded in the differential privacy mechanism. However, for meaningful privacy parameters, a differentially private model degrades the utility drastically when the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Da Yu , Huishuai Zhang , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees for machine learning applications. Much recent work has been focused on developing differentially private models, however there has been a gap in other stages of the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ashly Lau , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

This paper considers subject level privacy in the FL setting, where a subject is an individual whose private information is embodied by several data items either confined within a single federation user or distributed across multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Virendra J. Marathe , Pallika Kanani , Daniel W. Peterson , Guy Steele

Differential privacy guarantees allow the results of a statistical analysis involving sensitive data to be released without compromising the privacy of any individual taking part. Achieving such guarantees generally requires the injection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Jack Jewson , Sahra Ghalebikesabi , Chris Holmes

The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in smart homes has significantly improved the quality of life, offering enhanced convenience, automation, and energy efficiency. However, this proliferation of connected devices raises…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Nazar Waheed , Fazlullah Khan , Spyridon Mastorakis , Mian Ahmad Jan , Abeer Z. Alalmaie , Priyadarsi Nanda

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal framework for training machine learning models with individual example level privacy. In the field of deep learning, Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Harsh Mehta , Abhradeep Thakurta , Alexey Kurakin , Ashok Cutkosky

The private collection of multiple statistics from a population is a fundamental statistical problem. One possible approach to realize this is to rely on the local model of differential privacy (LDP). Numerous LDP protocols have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs , Jean-François Couchot , Catuscia Palamidessi

Differentially Private-SGD (DP-SGD) of Abadi et al. (2016) and its variations are the only known algorithms for private training of large scale neural networks. This algorithm requires computation of per-sample gradients norms which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Zhiqi Bu , Sivakanth Gopi , Janardhan Kulkarni , Yin Tat Lee , Judy Hanwen Shen , Uthaipon Tantipongpipat

In this paper, we study the problem of estimating smooth Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) in the Non-interactive Local Differential Privacy (NLDP) model. Different from its classical setting, our model allows the server to access some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Di Wang , Lijie Hu , Huanyu Zhang , Marco Gaboardi , Jinhui Xu