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To defend against privacy leakage of user data, differential privacy is widely used in federated learning, but it is not free. The addition of noise randomly disrupts the semantic integrity of the model and this disturbance accumulates with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yuecheng Li , Lele Fu , Tong Wang , Jian Lou , Bin Chen , Lei Yang , Jian Shen , Zibin Zheng , Chuan Chen

We present the first differentially private algorithms for reinforcement learning, which apply to the task of evaluating a fixed policy. We establish two approaches for achieving differential privacy, provide a theoretical analysis of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Borja Balle , Maziar Gomrokchi , Doina Precup

We propose an asymptotic framework to analyze the performance of (personalized) federated learning algorithms. In this new framework, we formulate federated learning as a multi-criterion objective, where the goal is to minimize each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Gary Cheng , Karan Chadha , John Duchi

Federated learning has emerged as a powerful framework for analysing distributed data, yet two challenges remain pivotal: heterogeneity across sites and privacy of local data. In this paper, we address both challenges within a federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mengchu Li , Ye Tian , Yang Feng , Yi Yu

Local differential privacy is a widely studied restriction on distributed algorithms that collect aggregates about sensitive user data, and is now deployed in several large systems. We initiate a systematic study of a fundamental limitation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Albert Cheu , Adam Smith , Jonathan Ullman

Submodular functions, as well as the sub-class of decomposable submodular functions, and their optimization appear in a wide range of applications in machine learning, recommendation systems, and welfare maximization. However, optimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Akbar Rafiey

Differentially private (DP) decentralized Federated Learning (FL) allows local users to collaborate without sharing their data with a central server. However, accurately quantifying the privacy budget of private FL algorithms is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Buxin Su , Chendi Wang , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Federated learning is a data decentralization privacy-preserving technique used to perform machine or deep learning in a secure way. In this paper we present theoretical aspects about federated learning, such as the presentation of an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz , Álvaro López García

Personalized recommendations form an important part of today's internet ecosystem, helping artists and creators to reach interested users, and helping users to discover new and engaging content. However, many users today are skeptical of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Allegra Laro , Yanqing Chen , Hao He , Babak Aghazadeh

Strict privacy is of paramount importance in distributed machine learning. Federated learning, with the main idea of communicating only what is needed for learning, has been recently introduced as a general approach for distributed learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Koskela , Kana Shimizu , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

In this paper we study the implementation challenge in an abstract interdependent values model and an arbitrary objective function. We design a mechanism that allows for approximate optimal implementation of insensitive objective functions…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Kobbi Nissim , Rann Smorodinsky , Moshe Tennenholtz

This paper studies federated learning for nonparametric regression in the context of distributed samples across different servers, each adhering to distinct differential privacy constraints. The setting we consider is heterogeneous,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-12 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) aims to train customized models for clients with highly heterogeneous data distributions while preserving data privacy. Existing approaches often rely on heuristics like clustering or model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Ping Guo , Tiantian Zhang , Xi Lin , Xiang Li , Zhi-Ri Tang , Qingfu Zhang

In this paper, we study the performance of federated learning over wireless networks, where devices with a limited energy budget train a machine learning model. The federated learning performance depends on the selection of the clients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ouiame Marnissi , Hajar EL Hammouti , El Houcine Bergou

Federated learning has recently gained popularity as a framework for distributed clients to collaboratively train a machine learning model using local data. While traditional federated learning relies on a central server for model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I-Cheng Lin , Osman Yagan , Carlee Joe-Wong

In federated learning, client selection is a critical problem that significantly impacts both model performance and fairness. Prior studies typically treat these two objectives separately, or balance them using simple weighting schemes.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qingming Li , Juzheng Miao , Puning Zhao , Li Zhou , H. Vicky Zhao , Shouling Ji , Bowen Zhou , Furui Liu

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed machine learning technique designed to preserve data privacy and security, and it has gained significant importance due to its broad range of applications. This paper addresses the problem of optimal…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

Federated learning is a privacy-focused approach towards machine learning where models are trained on client devices with locally available data and aggregated at a central server. However, the dependence on a single central server is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Shamik Bhattacharyya , Rachel Kalpana Kalaimani

Cooperative decentralized learning relies on direct information exchange between communicating agents, each with access to locally available datasets. The goal is to agree on model parameters that are optimal over all data. However, sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jasmine Bayrooti , Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

We study the problem of interactive function computation by multiple parties possessing a single bit each in a differential privacy setting (i.e., there remains an uncertainty in any specific party's bit even when given the transcript of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-08 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath