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There has been an explosion of research on differential privacy (DP) and its various applications in recent years, ranging from novel variants and accounting techniques in differential privacy to the thriving field of differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Saswat Das , Subhankar Mishra

Research on the effects of essential hyperparameters of DP-SGD lacks consensus, verification, and replication. Contradictory and anecdotal statements on their influence make matters worse. While DP-SGD is the standard optimization algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Felix Morsbach , Jan Reubold , Thorsten Strufe

Differential privacy is a popular privacy model within the research community because of the strong privacy guarantee it offers, namely that the presence or absence of any individual in a data set does not significantly influence the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Jordi Soria-Comas , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , David Megías

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

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

In recent years, privacy and security concerns in machine learning have promoted trusted federated learning to the forefront of research. Differential privacy has emerged as the de facto standard for privacy protection in federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Jie Fu , Yuan Hong , Xinpeng Ling , Leixia Wang , Xun Ran , Zhiyu Sun , Wendy Hui Wang , Zhili Chen , Yang Cao

Differential Privacy (DP) is the current gold-standard for ensuring privacy for statistical queries. Estimation problems under DP constraints appearing in the literature have largely focused on providing equal privacy to all users. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

A common goal of privacy research is to release synthetic data that satisfies a formal privacy guarantee and can be used by an analyst in place of the original data. To achieve reasonable accuracy, a synthetic data set must be tuned to…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

We consider the problem of secret protection, in which a business or organization wishes to train a model on their own data, while attempting to not leak secrets potentially contained in that data via the model. The standard method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Arun Ganesh , Brendan McMahan , Milad Nasr , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

Federated learning has emerged as an attractive approach to protect data privacy by eliminating the need for sharing clients' data while reducing communication costs compared with centralized machine learning algorithms. However, recent…

Deep learning techniques based on neural networks have shown significant success in a wide range of AI tasks. Large-scale training datasets are one of the critical factors for their success. However, when the training datasets are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Lei Yu , Ling Liu , Calton Pu , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex

With the fast development of Information Technology, a tremendous amount of data have been generated and collected for research and analysis purposes. As an increasing number of users are growing concerned about their personal information,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Mengmeng Yang , Lingjuan Lyu , Jun Zhao , Tianqing Zhu , Kwok-Yan Lam

In this paper, an adjustment to the original differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) algorithm for deep learning models is proposed. As a matter of motivation, to date, almost no state-of-the-art machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Mehdi Amian

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a pivotal approach for safeguarding individual privacy in data analysis, yet its practical adoption is often hindered by challenges in the implementation and communication of DP. This paper presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Onyinye Dibia , Prianka Bhattacharjee , Brad Stenger , Steven Baldasty , Mako Bates , Ivoline C. Ngong , Yuanyuan Feng , Joseph P. Near

The privacy of data is a major challenge in machine learning as a trained model may expose sensitive information of the enclosed dataset. Besides, the limited computation capability and capacity of edge devices have made cloud-hosted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Behnam Khaleghi , Mohsen Imani , Tajana Rosing

Differentially private (DP) training preserves the data privacy usually at the cost of slower convergence (and thus lower accuracy), as well as more severe mis-calibration than its non-private counterpart. To analyze the convergence of DP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Zhiqi Bu , Hua Wang , Zongyu Dai , Qi Long

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 has emerged as the most studied framework for privacy-preserving machine learning. However, recent studies show that enforcing differential privacy guarantees can not only significantly degrade the utility of the model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Kai Yao , Marc Juarez

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

Commercial companies that collect user data on a large scale have been the main beneficiaries of this trend since the success of deep learning techniques is directly proportional to the amount of data available for training. Massive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Saichethan Miriyala Reddy , Saisree Miriyala