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In an MPC-protected distributed computation, although the use of MPC assures data privacy during computation, sensitive information may still be inferred by curious MPC participants from the computation output. This can be observed, for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ivan Tjuawinata , Jiabo Wang , Mengmeng Yang , Shanxiang Lyu , Huaxiong Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam

Differential privacy (DP) has become the standard for private data analysis. Certain machine learning applications only require privacy protection for specific protected attributes. Using naive variants of differential privacy in such use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Saeed Mahloujifar , Chuan Guo , G. Edward Suh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

As one of the most important basic operations, matrix multiplication computation (MMC) has varieties of applications in the scientific and engineering community such as linear regression, k-nearest neighbor classification and biometric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Chun Liu , Xuexian Hu , Xiaofeng Chen , Jianghong Wei , Wenfen Liu

Recent research in differential privacy demonstrated that (sub)sampling can amplify the level of protection. For example, for $\epsilon$-differential privacy and simple random sampling with sampling rate $r$, the actual privacy guarantee is…

Applications · Statistics 2022-02-22 Jingchen Hu , Joerg Drechsler , Hang J. Kim

Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) extends the concept of Differential Privacy (DP) to serve as a new paradigm of data perturbation. It is designed to protect secret data represented in general metric space, such as text data encoded as word…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Chenxi Qiu

In collaborative learning (CL), multiple parties jointly train a machine learning model on their private datasets. However, data can not be shared directly due to privacy concerns. To ensure input confidentiality, cryptographic techniques,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Francesco Capano , Jonas Böhler , Benjamin Weggenmann

Privacy preservation is a fundamental requirement in many high-stakes domains such as medicine and finance, where sensitive personal data must be analyzed without compromising individual confidentiality. At the same time, these applications…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Simon Roburin , Rafaël Pinot , Erwan Scornet

Decentralized Learning (DL) enables users to collaboratively train models without sharing raw data by iteratively averaging local updates with neighbors in a network graph. This setting is increasingly popular for its scalability and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Aurélien Bellet , Edwige Cyffers , Davide Frey , Romaric Gaudel , Dimitri Lerévérend , François Taïani

We investigate the framework of privacy amplification by iteration, recently proposed by Feldman et al., from an information-theoretic lens. We demonstrate that differential privacy guarantees of iterative mappings can be determined by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Shahab Asoodeh , Mario Diaz , Flavio P. Calmon

We study privacy amplification for BandMF, i.e., DP-SGD with correlated noise across iterations via a banded correlation matrix. We propose $b$-min-sep subsampling, a new subsampling scheme that generalizes Poisson and balls-in-bins…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Andy Dong , Arun Ganesh

We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data is used in k steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of t steps. This sampling scheme has been recently applied in the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Vitaly Feldman , Moshe Shenfeld

Recent developments in differentially private (DP) machine learning and DP Bayesian learning have enabled learning under strong privacy guarantees for the training data subjects. In this paper, we further extend the applicability of DP…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-18 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Joonas Jälkö , Onur Dikmen , Antti Honkela

Fairness and privacy are two important values machine learning (ML) practitioners often seek to operationalize in models. Fairness aims to reduce model bias for social/demographic sub-groups. Privacy via differential privacy (DP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Sanjari Srivastava , Piotr Mardziel , Zhikhun Zhang , Archana Ahlawat , Anupam Datta , John C Mitchell

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

The iterative nature of the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm presents a challenge for privacy-preserving estimation, as each iteration increases the amount of noise needed. We propose a practical private EM algorithm that overcomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mijung Park , Jimmy Foulds , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Max Welling

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely used to train deep neural networks with formal privacy guarantees. However, the addition of differential privacy (DP) often degrades model accuracy by introducing both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xincheng Xu , Thilina Ranbaduge , Qing Wang , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , David Smith

We review the use of differential privacy (DP) for privacy protection in machine learning (ML). We show that, driven by the aim of preserving the accuracy of the learned models, DP-based ML implementations are so loose that they do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Alberto Blanco-Justicia , David Sanchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Krishnamurty Muralidhar

Correlated noise mechanisms such as DP Matrix Factorization (DP-MF) have proven to be effective alternatives to DP-SGD in large-epsilon few-epoch training regimes. Significant work has been done to find the best correlated noise strategies,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Ryan McKenna

The shuffle model of differential privacy provides promising privacy-utility balances in decentralized, privacy-preserving data analysis. However, the current analyses of privacy amplification via shuffling lack both tightness and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shaowei Wang , Yun Peng , Jin Li , Zikai Wen , Zhipeng Li , Shiyu Yu , Di Wang , Wei Yang

This chapter is meant to be part of the book "Differential Privacy for Artificial Intelligence Applications." We give an introduction to the most important property of differential privacy -- composition: running multiple independent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Thomas Steinke