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Differential privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee that prevents adversaries with access to machine learning models from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially private stochastic gradient descent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jie Fu , Zhili Chen , XinPeng Ling

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

Differential privacy is among the most prominent techniques for preserving privacy of sensitive data, oweing to its robust mathematical guarantees and general applicability to a vast array of computations on data, including statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Naoise Holohan , Stefano Braghin

We study differentially private stochastic convex optimization (DP-SCO) under user-level privacy, where each user may hold multiple data items. Existing work for user-level DP-SCO either requires super-polynomial runtime [Ghazi et al.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hilal Asi , Daogao Liu

Federated learning is distributed model training across several clients without disclosing raw data. Despite advancements in data privacy, risks still remain. Differential Privacy (DP) is a technique to protect sensitive data by adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tejash Varsani

While preserving the privacy of federated learning (FL), differential privacy (DP) inevitably degrades the utility (i.e., accuracy) of FL due to model perturbations caused by DP noise added to model updates. Existing studies have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Xin Yuan , Wei Ni , Ming Ding , Kang Wei , Jun Li , H. Vincent Poor

Distributed online learning has been proven extremely effective in solving large-scale machine learning problems over streaming data. However, information sharing between learners in distributed learning also raises concerns about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

The need to analyze sensitive data, such as medical records or financial data, has created a critical research challenge in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the framework of differential privacy, and explore mechanisms for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nikolija Bojkovic , Po-Ling Loh

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…

Differentially private (DP) transfer learning, i.e., fine-tuning a pretrained model on private data, is the current state-of-the-art approach for training large models under privacy constraints. We focus on two key hyperparameters in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Aki Rehn , Linzh Zhao , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Honkela

Real-time data-driven optimization and control problems over networks may require sensitive information of participating users to calculate solutions and decision variables, such as in traffic or energy systems. Adversaries with access to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Roel Dobbe , Ye Pu , Jingge Zhu , Kannan Ramchandran , Claire Tomlin

In this work, we give efficient algorithms for privately estimating a Gaussian distribution in both pure and approximate differential privacy (DP) models with optimal dependence on the dimension in the sample complexity. In the pure DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Daniel Alabi , Pravesh K. Kothari , Pranay Tankala , Prayaag Venkat , Fred Zhang

Differential privacy has been proven effective for stochastic gradient descent; however, existing methods often suffer from performance degradation in high-dimensional settings, as the scale of injected noise increases with dimensionality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Huiqi Zhang , Fang Xie

We propose new continuous-time formulations for first-order stochastic optimization algorithms such as mini-batch gradient descent and variance-reduced methods. We exploit these continuous-time models, together with simple Lyapunov analysis…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-12 Antonio Orvieto , Aurelien Lucchi

Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a widely used tool for machine learning in distributed settings, where a machine learning model is trained over distributed data sources through an interactive process of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zonghao Huang , Rui Hu , Yuanxiong Guo , Eric Chan-Tin , Yanmin Gong

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

In distributed optimization, multiple parties collaborate to find an optimal solution to a problem. Privacy-preserving distributed optimization uses techniques, such as secure multi-party computation (MPC), to protect the private inputs of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sebastian Gruber , Tobias Harzfeld , Christoph G. Schuetz , Florian Wohner , Thomas Lorünser

The interplay between optimization and privacy has become a central theme in privacy-preserving machine learning. Noisy stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has emerged as a cornerstone algorithm, particularly in large-scale settings. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shurong Lin , Eric D. Kolaczyk , Adam Smith , Elliot Paquette

Learning a privacy-preserving model from sensitive data which are distributed across multiple devices is an increasingly important problem. The problem is often formulated in the federated learning context, with the aim of learning a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Matthew Ashman , Siddharth Swaroop , Richard E. Turner , Antti Honkela

Motivated by the increasing deployment of reinforcement learning in the real world, involving a large consumption of personal data, we introduce a differentially private (DP) policy gradient algorithm. We show that, in this setting, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Alexandre Rio , Merwan Barlier , Igor Colin