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This study addresses the issues of privacy protection and efficiency in instruction fine-tuning of large-scale language models by proposing a parameter-efficient method that integrates differential privacy noise allocation with gradient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yulin Huang , Yaxuan Luan , Jinxu Guo , Xiangchen Song , Yuchen Liu

Federated learning (FL) is recently surging as a promising decentralized deep learning (DL) framework that enables DL-based approaches trained collaboratively across clients without sharing private data. However, in the context of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Van-Tuan Tran , Huy-Hieu Pham , Kok-Seng Wong

Existing approaches for training neural networks with user-level differential privacy (e.g., DP Federated Averaging) in federated learning (FL) settings involve bounding the contribution of each user's model update by clipping it to some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Galen Andrew , Om Thakkar , H. Brendan McMahan , Swaroop Ramaswamy

Federated learning (FL) is a common and practical framework for learning a machine model in a decentralized fashion. A primary motivation behind this decentralized approach is data privacy, ensuring that the learner never sees the data of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yeojoon Youn , Zihao Hu , Juba Ziani , Jacob Abernethy

Federated learning is a recent advance in privacy protection. In this context, a trusted curator aggregates parameters optimized in decentralized fashion by multiple clients. The resulting model is then distributed back to all clients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Robin C. Geyer , Tassilo Klein , Moin Nabi

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely-accepted and widely-applied notion of privacy based on worst-case analysis. Often, DP classifies most mechanisms without additive noise as non-private (Dwork et al., 2014). Thus, additive noises are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ao Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Lirong Xia

Federated learning has attracted significant recent attention due to its applicability across a wide range of settings where data is collected and analyzed across disparate locations. In this paper, we study federated nonparametric…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-06-12 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

Differentially private federated learning (DP-FL) enables clients to collaboratively train machine learning models while preserving the privacy of their local data. However, most existing DP-FL approaches assume that all clients share a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruichen Xu , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang , Jianwei Huang

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative learning framework that enables edge devices to collaboratively learn a global model while keeping raw data locally. Although FL avoids leaking direct information from local datasets, sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Zhenxiao Zhang , Yuanxiong Guo , Yuguang Fang , Yanmin Gong

Data holders are increasingly seeking to protect their user's privacy, whilst still maximizing their ability to produce machine models with high quality predictions. In this work, we empirically evaluate various implementations of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Nicolas Kourtellis

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

This article presents DDP-SA, a scalable privacy-preserving federated learning framework that jointly leverages client-side local differential privacy (LDP) and full-threshold additive secret sharing (ASS) for secure aggregation. Unlike…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Wenjing Wei , Farid Nait-Abdesselam , Alla Jammine

An important problem in deep learning is the privacy and security of neural networks (NNs). Both aspects have long been considered separately. To date, it is still poorly understood how privacy enhancing training affects the robustness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Franziska Boenisch , Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

In the modern financial system, combating money laundering is a critical challenge complicated by data privacy concerns and increasingly complex fraud transaction patterns. Although federated learning (FL) is a promising problem-solving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Renuga Kanagavelu , Manjil Nepal , Ning Peiyan , Cai Kangning , Xu Jiming , Fei Gao , Yong Liu , Goh Siow Mong Rick , Qingsong Wei

For gradient-based machine learning (ML) methods commonly adopted in practice such as stochastic gradient descent, the de facto differential privacy (DP) technique is perturbing the gradients with random Gaussian noise. Data valuation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Zijian Zhou , Xinyi Xu , Daniela Rus , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Federated learning (FL) is a heavily promoted approach for training ML models on sensitive data, e.g., text typed by users on their smartphones. FL is expressly designed for training on data that are unbalanced and non-iid across the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Tao Yu , Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

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

Collecting and training over sensitive personal data raise severe privacy concerns in personalized recommendation systems, and federated learning can potentially alleviate the problem by training models over decentralized user data.However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Ruixuan Liu , Yanlin Wang , Yang Cao , Lingjuan Lyu , Weike Pan , Yun Chen , Hong Chen

Privacy-preserving machine learning aims to train models on private data without leaking sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is considered the gold standard framework for privacy-preserving training, as it provides formal…

Federated learning (FL) enhanced by differential privacy has emerged as a popular approach to better safeguard the privacy of client-side data by protecting clients' contributions during the training process. Existing solutions typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Junxu Liu , Jian Lou , Li Xiong , Jinfei Liu , Xiaofeng Meng