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The increased application of machine learning (ML) in sensitive domains requires protecting the training data through privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). DP requires to specify a uniform privacy level $\varepsilon$ that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Krishna Acharya , Franziska Boenisch , Rakshit Naidu , Juba Ziani

When training a machine learning model with differential privacy, one sets a privacy budget. This budget represents a maximal privacy violation that any user is willing to face by contributing their data to the training set. We argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Franziska Boenisch , Christopher Mühl , Adam Dziedzic , Roy Rinberg , Nicolas Papernot

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely used to protect sensitive data during the training of machine learning models, but its privacy guarantee often comes at a large cost of model performance due to the lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Hao Liang , Wanrong Zhang , Xinlei He , Kaishun Wu , Hong Xing

While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

The Noisy-SGD algorithm is widely used for privately training machine learning models. Traditional privacy analyses of this algorithm assume that the internal state is publicly revealed, resulting in privacy loss bounds that increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shahab Asoodeh , Mario Diaz

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 (DP) has become a prevalent privacy model in a wide range of machine learning tasks, especially after the debut of DP-SGD. However, DP-SGD, which directly perturbs gradients in the training iterations, fails to mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jiawei Duan , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Xinyue Sun

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used to protect training data in machine learning. Its privacy guarantee is commonly analyzed through a security game in which an adversary infers whether a target record…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wenhao Wang , Shujie Cui , Hui Cui , Xingliang Yuan

Differentially-private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is a family of iterative machine learning training algorithms that privatize gradients to generate a sequence of differentially-private (DP) model parameters. It is also the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Weiwei Kong , Mónica Ribero

Modern deep learning techniques focus on extracting intricate information from data to achieve accurate predictions. However, the training datasets may be crowdsourced and include sensitive information, such as personal contact details,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Zhongjie Shi , Puyu Wang , Chenyang Zhang , Yuan Cao

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a key method for applying privacy in the training of deep learning models. It applies isotropic Gaussian noise to gradients during training, which can perturb these gradients in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Pedro Faustini , Natasha Fernandes , Shakila Tonni , Annabelle McIver , Mark Dras

Nowadays, owners and developers of deep learning models must consider stringent privacy-preservation rules of their training data, usually crowd-sourced and retaining sensitive information. The most widely adopted method to enforce privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo matteucci

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) is a variation of stochastic gradient descent based on the Differential Privacy (DP) paradigm, which can mitigate privacy threats that arise from the presence of sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ali Davody , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Thomas Kleinbauer , Dietrich Klakow

Training machine learning models with differential privacy (DP) has received increasing interest in recent years. One of the most popular algorithms for training differentially private models is differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Ziteng Sun , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Aditya Krishna Menon

Machine learning (ML) models trained by differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) have much lower utility than the non-private ones. To mitigate this degradation, we propose a DP Laplacian smoothing SGD (DP-LSSGD) to train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Bao Wang , Quanquan Gu , March Boedihardjo , Farzin Barekat , Stanley J. Osher

In this paper we tackle the challenge of making the stochastic coordinate descent algorithm differentially private. Compared to the classical gradient descent algorithm where updates operate on a single model vector and controlled noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Georgios Damaskinos , Celestine Mendler-Dünner , Rachid Guerraoui , Nikolaos Papandreou , Thomas Parnell

Stochastic optimization is a pivotal enabler in modern machine learning, producing effective models for various tasks. However, several existing works have shown that model parameters and gradient information are susceptible to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Zhanhong Jiang , Md Zahid Hasan , Nastaran Saadati , Aditya Balu , Chao Liu , Soumik Sarkar

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

As the use of large embedding models in recommendation systems and language applications increases, concerns over user data privacy have also risen. DP-SGD, a training algorithm that combines differential privacy with stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Badih Ghazi , Yangsibo Huang , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

A major challenge in applying differential privacy to training deep neural network models is scalability.The widely-used training algorithm, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD), struggles with training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Kamil Adamczewski , Mijung Park