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Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal privacy framework that enables training machine learning (ML) models while protecting individuals' data. As pointed out by prior work, ML models are part of larger systems, which can lead to so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Marlon Tobaben , Talal Alrawajfeh , Marcus Klasson , Mikko Heikkilä , Arno Solin , Antti Honkela

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

Differential privacy (DP) is a rigorous notion of data privacy, used for private statistics. The canonical algorithm for differentially private mean estimation is to first clip the samples to a bounded range and then add noise to their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Gautam Kamath , Argyris Mouzakis , Matthew Regehr , Vikrant Singhal , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated definition of privacy which has gained significant attention over the past few years. Differentially private solutions enforce privacy by adding random noise to a function computed over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu

Differential privacy (DP) allows the quantification of privacy loss when the data of individuals is subjected to algorithmic processing such as machine learning, as well as the provision of objective privacy guarantees. However, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tamara T. Mueller , Alexander Ziller , Dmitrii Usynin , Moritz Knolle , Friederike Jungmann , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

This paper studies how to apply differential privacy to constrained optimization problems whose inputs are sensitive. This task raises significant challenges since random perturbations of the input data often render the constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Terrence W. K. Mak , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

The worldwide adoption of machine learning (ML) and deep learning models, particularly in critical sectors, such as healthcare and finance, presents substantial challenges in maintaining individual privacy and fairness. These two elements…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Mengmeng Yang , Ming Ding , Youyang Qu , Wei Ni , David Smith , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard for protecting sensitive data, providing strong guarantees that published statistics or models reveal limited information about any individual. However, privacy noise and restricted…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mariia Vologdin , Yuchao Tao , Amir Gilad

In public health interventions such as distributing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, decision makers often use seeding algorithms to identify key individuals who can amplify intervention impact. However, building a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian , Fang-Yi Yu

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm for large-scale distributed learning which faces two key challenges: (i) efficient training from highly heterogeneous user data, and (ii) protecting the privacy of participating users. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Maxence Noble , Aurélien Bellet , Aymeric Dieuleveut

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have established themselves as the state-of-the-art models for many machine learning applications such as the analysis of social networks, protein interactions and molecules. Several among these datasets contain…

This paper proposes a novel signed $\beta$-model for directed signed network, which is frequently encountered in application domains but largely neglected in literature. The proposed signed $\beta$-model decomposes a directed signed network…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-09 Haoran Zhang , Junhui Wang

Traditionally, the random noise is equally injected when training with different data instances in the field of differential privacy (DP). In this paper, we first give sharper excess risk bounds of DP stochastic gradient descent (SGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yilin Kang , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

This work considers the problem of Distributed Mean Estimation (DME) over networks with intermittent connectivity, where the goal is to learn a global statistic over the data samples localized across distributed nodes with the help of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Rajarshi Saha , Mohamed Seif , Michal Yemini , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

An important question in statistical network analysis is how to estimate models of discrete and dependent network data with intractable likelihood functions, without sacrificing computational scalability and statistical guarantees. We…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Jonathan R. Stewart , Michael Schweinberger

Users of a personalised recommendation system face a dilemma: recommendations can be improved by learning from data, but only if the other users are willing to share their private information. Good personalised predictions are vitally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-12 Antti Honkela , Mrinal Das , Arttu Nieminen , Onur Dikmen , Samuel Kaski

The rise of connected personal devices together with privacy concerns call for machine learning algorithms capable of leveraging the data of a large number of agents to learn personalized models under strong privacy requirements. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Mahsa Taziki , Marc Tommasi

In the recent decades, the advance of information technology and abundant personal data facilitate the application of algorithmic personalized pricing. However, this leads to the growing concern of potential violation of privacy due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-13 Xi Chen , Sentao Miao , Yining Wang

With the development of big data and machine learning, privacy concerns have become increasingly critical, especially when handling heterogeneous datasets containing sensitive personal information. Differential privacy provides a rigorous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-08 Ziliang Shen , Caixing Wang , Shaoli Wang , Yibo Yan