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In machine learning, classification models need to be trained in order to predict class labels. When the training data contains personal information about individuals, collecting training data becomes difficult due to privacy concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Emre Yilmaz , Mohammad Al-Rubaie , J. Morris Chang

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

Most deep learning frameworks require users to pool their local data or model updates to a trusted server to train or maintain a global model. The assumption of a trusted server who has access to user information is ill-suited in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lingjuan Lyu , Yitong Li , Xuanli He , Tong Xiao

In this paper, we introduce an adaptation of the facility location problem and analyze it within the framework of local differential privacy (LDP). Under this model, we ensure the privacy of client presence at specific locations. When n is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kevin Pfisterer , Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) provides provable privacy protection for data collection without the assumption of the trusted data server. In the real-world scenario, different data have different privacy requirements due to the distinct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong , Yang Cao

Data privacy is important in the AI era, and differential privacy (DP) is one of the golden solutions. However, DP is typically applicable only if data have a bounded underlying distribution. We address this limitation by leveraging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zilong Cao , Xuan Bi , Hai Zhang

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a rigorous framework for releasing statistics while protecting individual information present in a dataset. Although substantial progress has been made on differentially private linear regression, existing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Getoar Sopa , Marco Avella Medina , Cynthia Rush

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

In this paper, we study the problem of (finite sum) minimax optimization in the Differential Privacy (DP) model. Unlike most of the previous studies on the (strongly) convex-concave settings or loss functions satisfying the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ruijia Zhang , Mingxi Lei , Meng Ding , Zihang Xiang , Jinhui Xu , Di Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of publishing a stream of real-valued data satisfying differential privacy (DP). One major challenge is that the maximal possible value can be quite large; thus it is necessary to estimate a threshold so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Tianhao Wang , Joann Qiongna Chen , Zhikun Zhang , Dong Su , Yueqiang Cheng , Zhou Li , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

This paper develops a networked federated learning algorithm to solve nonsmooth objective functions. To guarantee the confidentiality of the participants with respect to each other and potential eavesdroppers, we use the zero-concentrated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 François Gauthier , Cristiano Gratton , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Stefan Werner

Due to statistical lower bounds on the learnability of many function classes under privacy constraints, there has been recent interest in leveraging public data to improve the performance of private learning algorithms. In this model,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-16 Adam Block , Mark Bun , Rathin Desai , Abhishek Shetty , Steven Wu

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong privacy protection, especially in settings in which the server collecting the data is untrusted. However, designing LDP mechanisms that achieve an optimal trade-off between privacy, utility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs

This paper proposes a new recommendation system preserving both privacy and utility. It relies on the local differential privacy (LDP) for the browsing user to transmit his noisy preference profile, as perturbed Bloom filters, to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Seryne Rahali , Maryline Laurent , Souha Masmoudi , Charles Roux , Brice Mazeau

This paper establishes the strict optimality in precision for frequency and distribution estimation under local differential privacy (LDP). We prove that a linear estimator with a symmetric and extremal configuration, and a constant support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Mingen Pan

We study the fundamental problem of estimating an unknown discrete distribution $p$ over $d$ symbols, given $n$ i.i.d. samples from the distribution. We are interested in minimizing the KL divergence between the true distribution and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-30 Jiayuan Ye , Vitaly Feldman , Kunal Talwar

Differentially private (stochastic) gradient descent is the workhorse of DP private machine learning in both the convex and non-convex settings. Without privacy constraints, second-order methods, like Newton's method, converge faster than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Arun Ganesh , Mahdi Haghifam , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

Distributed data analysis is a large and growing field driven by a massive proliferation of user devices, and by privacy concerns surrounding the centralised storage of data. We consider two \emph{adaptive} algorithms for estimating one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Anders Aamand , Fabrizio Boninsegna , Abigail Gentle , Jacob Imola , Rasmus Pagh

We study adversarial online nonparametric regression with general convex losses and propose a parameter-free learning algorithm that achieves minimax optimal rates. Our approach leverages chaining trees to compete against H{\"o}lder…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Paul Liautaud , Pierre Gaillard , Olivier Wintenberger

We consider the problem of model selection in a high-dimensional sparse linear regression model under privacy constraints. We propose a differentially private (DP) best subset selection method with strong statistical utility properties by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-30 Saptarshi Roy , Zehua Wang , Ambuj Tewari