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The superior performance of large foundation models relies on the use of massive amounts of high-quality data, which often contain sensitive, private and copyrighted material that requires formal protection. While differential privacy (DP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Zhiqi Bu , Xinwei Zhang , Mingyi Hong , Sheng Zha , George Karypis

The hidden state threat model of differential privacy (DP) assumes that the adversary has access only to the final trained machine learning (ML) model, without seeing intermediate states during training. However, the current privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Rob Romijnders , Antti Koskela

In this paper, we present a notion of differential privacy (DP) for data that comes from different classes. Here, the class-membership is private information that needs to be protected. The proposed method is an output perturbation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Raksha Ramakrishna , Anna Scaglione , Tong Wu , Nikhil Ravi , Sean Peisert

We present new auditors to assess Differential Privacy (DP) of an algorithm based on output samples. Such empirical auditors are common to check for algorithmic correctness and implementation bugs. Most existing auditors are batch-based or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tim Kutta , Martin Dunsche , Yu Wei , Vassilis Zikas

Diferentially private (DP) synthetic datasets are a powerful approach for training machine learning models while respecting the privacy of individual data providers. The effect of DP on the fairness of the resulting trained models is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-21 Mayana Pereira , Meghana Kshirsagar , Sumit Mukherjee , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres

While pursuing better utility by discovering knowledge from the data, individual's privacy may be compromised during an analysis. To that end, differential privacy has been widely recognized as the state-of-the-art privacy notion. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Meisam Mohammady

The field of privacy-preserving Natural Language Processing has risen in popularity, particularly at a time when concerns about privacy grow with the proliferation of Large Language Models. One solution consistently appearing in recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Stephen Meisenbacher , Florian Matthes

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the workhorse algorithm for recent advances in private deep learning. It provides a single privacy guarantee to all datapoints in the dataset. We propose output-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Da Yu , Gautam Kamath , Janardhan Kulkarni , Tie-Yan Liu , Jian Yin , Huishuai Zhang

Nowadays, machine learning models and applications have become increasingly pervasive. With this rapid increase in the development and employment of machine learning models, a concern regarding privacy has risen. Thus, there is a legitimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Samah Baraheem , Zhongmei Yao

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…

Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as the gold standard for protecting user data in recommender systems, but existing privacy-preserving mechanisms face a fundamental challenge: the privacy-utility tradeoff inevitably degrades…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sarwan Ali

Differentially Private algorithms often need to select the best amongst many candidate options. Classical works on this selection problem require that the candidates' goodness, measured as a real-valued score function, does not change by…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Jingcheng Liu , Kunal Talwar

The powerful cooperation of federated learning (FL) and differential privacy~(DP) provides a promising paradigm for the large-scale private clients. However, existing analyses in FL-DP mostly rely on the composition theorem and cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yan Sun , Qixin Zhang , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Large organizations that collect data about populations (like the US Census Bureau) release summary statistics that are used by multiple stakeholders for resource allocation and policy making problems. These organizations are also legally…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-08 David Pujol , Yikai Wu , Brandon Fain , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

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

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

Data-dependent privacy accounting frameworks such as per-instance differential privacy (pDP) and Fisher information loss (FIL) confer fine-grained privacy guarantees for individuals in a fixed training dataset. These guarantees can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shengyuan Hu , Saeed Mahloujifar , Virginia Smith , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Chuan Guo

Differential privacy (DP) has been applied in deep learning for preserving privacy of the underlying training sets. Existing DP practice falls into three categories - objective perturbation, gradient perturbation and output perturbation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Zhigang Lu , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Darren Webb , Peter Dickinson

Mechanisms used in privacy-preserving machine learning often aim to guarantee differential privacy (DP) during model training. Practical DP-ensuring training methods use randomization when fitting model parameters to privacy-sensitive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Bogdan Kulynych , Hsiang Hsu , Carmela Troncoso , Flavio P. Calmon

Differential privacy (DP) quantifies privacy loss by analyzing noise injected into output statistics. For non-trivial statistics, this noise is necessary to ensure finite privacy loss. However, data curators frequently release collections…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jeremy Seeman , Matthew Reimherr , Aleksandra Slavkovic