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Motivated by high-stakes decision-making domains like personalized medicine where user information is inherently sensitive, we design privacy preserving exploration policies for episodic reinforcement learning (RL). We first provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Giuseppe Vietri , Borja Balle , Akshay Krishnamurthy , Zhiwei Steven Wu

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

Ensuring the privacy of users whose data are used to train Natural Language Processing (NLP) models is necessary to build and maintain customer trust. Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as the most successful method to protect the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Ricardo Silva Carvalho , Theodore Vasiloudis , Oluwaseyi Feyisetan

The Acceptance Probability Estimation Problem (APEP) is to additively approximate the acceptance probability of a Boolean circuit. This problem admits a probabilistic approximation scheme. A central question is whether we can design a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Peter Dixon , A. Pavan , N. V. Vinodchandran

The notion of replicable algorithms was introduced in Impagliazzo et al. [STOC '22] to describe randomized algorithms that are stable under the resampling of their inputs. More precisely, a replicable algorithm gives the same output with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Mark Bun , Marco Gaboardi , Max Hopkins , Russell Impagliazzo , Rex Lei , Toniann Pitassi , Satchit Sivakumar , Jessica Sorrell

Multiple testing is widely applied across scientific fields, particularly in genomic and health data analysis, where protecting sensitive personal information is imperative. However, developing private multiple testing algorithms for super…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-05 Kehan Wang , Wenxuan Song , Wangli Xu , Linglong Kong

We study private synthetic data generation for query release, where the goal is to construct a sanitized version of a sensitive dataset, subject to differential privacy, that approximately preserves the answers to a large collection of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Terrance Liu , Giuseppe Vietri , Zhiwei Steven Wu

The power-expected-posterior (PEP) prior provides an objective, automatic, consistent and parsimonious model selection procedure. At the same time it resolves the conceptual and computational problems due to the use of imaginary data.…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-02 Dimitris Fouskakis , Ioannis Ntzoufras , Konstantinos Perrakis

The power-expected-posterior (PEP) prior is an objective prior for Gaussian linear models, which leads to consistent model selection inference, under the M-closed scenario, and tends to favor parsimonious models. Recently, two new forms of…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-22 Dimitris Fouskakis , Ioannis Ntzoufras , Konstantinos Perrakis

Especially in the Big Data era, the usage of different classification methods is increasing day by day. The success of these classification methods depends on the effectiveness of learning methods. Extreme learning machine (ELM)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Ferhat Özgür Çatak

Objective perturbation is a standard mechanism in differentially private empirical risk minimization. In particular, Linear Objective Perturbation (LOP) enforces privacy by adding a random linear term, while strong convexity and stability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Daniel Cortild , Coralia Cartis

Differential Privacy (DP) is a family of definitions that bound the worst-case privacy leakage of a mechanism. One important feature of the worst-case DP guarantee is it naturally implies protections against adversaries with less prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Marika Swanberg , Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Jamie Hayes , Borja Balle , Adam Smith

Policy optimization (PO) is a cornerstone of modern reinforcement learning (RL), with diverse applications spanning robotics, healthcare, and large language model training. The increasing deployment of PO in sensitive domains, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yi He , Xingyu Zhou

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

The lack of transparency of Deep Neural Networks continues to be a limitation that severely undermines their reliability and usage in high-stakes applications. Promising approaches to overcome such limitations are Prototype-Based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jon Vadillo , Roberto Santana , Jose A. Lozano , Marta Kwiatkowska

Label differential privacy (DP) is a framework that protects the privacy of labels in training datasets, while the feature vectors are public. Existing approaches protect the privacy of labels by flipping them randomly, and then train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Puning Zhao , Rongfei Fan , Huiwen Wu , Qingming Li , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

This paper proposes new methodologies for conducting practical differentially private (DP) estimation and inference in high-dimensional linear regression. We first introduce a DP Bayesian Information Criterion (DP-BIC) for selecting the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-13 Zhanrui Cai , Sai Li , Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang

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

Private machine learning involves addition of noise while training, resulting in lower accuracy. Intuitively, greater stability can imply greater privacy and improve this privacy-utility tradeoff. We study this role of stability in private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lauren Watson , Benedek Rozemberczki , Rik Sarkar

This short note highlights some links between two lines of research within the emerging topic of trustworthy machine learning: differential privacy and robustness to adversarial examples. By abstracting the definitions of both notions, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Rafael Pinot , Florian Yger , Cédric Gouy-Pailler , Jamal Atif