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The privacy leakage of the model about the training data can be bounded in the differential privacy mechanism. However, for meaningful privacy parameters, a differentially private model degrades the utility drastically when the model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Da Yu , Huishuai Zhang , Wei Chen , Tie-Yan Liu

Ensuring the privacy of sensitive training data is crucial in privacy-preserving machine learning. However, in practical scenarios, privacy protection may be required for only a subset of features. For instance, in ICU data, demographic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Linghui Zeng , Ruixuan Liu , Atiquer Rahman Sarkar , Xiaoqian Jiang , Joyce C. Ho , Li Xiong

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradients Descent (DP-SGD) is a prominent paradigm for preserving privacy in deep learning. It ensures privacy by perturbing gradients with random noise calibrated to their entire norm at each training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Yixuan Liu , Li Xiong , Yuhan Liu , Yujie Gu , Ruixuan Liu , Hong Chen

Federated learning (FL) enables organizations to collaboratively train models without sharing their datasets. Despite this advantage, recent studies show that both client updates and the global model can leak private information, limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rouzbeh Behnia , Jeremiah Birrell , Arman Riasi , Reza Ebrahimi , Kaushik Dutta , Thang Hoang

Training large neural networks with meaningful/usable differential privacy security guarantees is a demanding challenge. In this paper, we tackle this problem by revisiting the two key operations in Differentially Private Stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hanshen Xiao , Jun Wan , Srinivas Devadas

Deep learning with differential privacy (DP) has garnered significant attention over the past years, leading to the development of numerous methods aimed at enhancing model accuracy and training efficiency. This paper delves into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Youlong Ding , Xueyang Wu , Yining Meng , Yonggang Luo , Hao Wang , Weike Pan

Secure multi-party computation-based machine learning, referred to as MPL, has become an important technology to utilize data from multiple parties with privacy preservation. While MPL provides rigorous security guarantees for the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Wenqiang Ruan , Mingxin Xu , Wenjing Fang , Li Wang , Lei Wang , Weili Han

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is broadly considered to be the gold standard for training and fine-tuning neural networks under differential privacy (DP). With the increasing availability of high-quality…

The availability of rich and vast data sources has greatly advanced machine learning applications in various domains. However, data with privacy concerns comes with stringent regulations that frequently prohibited data access and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

With the advent of the era of big data, deep learning has become a prevalent building block in a variety of machine learning or data mining tasks, such as signal processing, network modeling and traffic analysis, to name a few. The massive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Zhiying Xu , Shuyu Shi , Alex X. Liu , Jun Zhao , Lin Chen

Federated learning (FL) enhances privacy by keeping user data on local devices. However, emerging attacks have demonstrated that the updates shared by users during training can reveal significant information about their data. This has…

We give simpler, sparser, and faster algorithms for differentially private fine-tuning of large-scale pre-trained language models, which achieve the state-of-the-art privacy versus utility tradeoffs on many standard NLP tasks. We propose a…

Federated learning is distributed model training across several clients without disclosing raw data. Despite advancements in data privacy, risks still remain. Differential Privacy (DP) is a technique to protect sensitive data by adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tejash Varsani

As deep learning methods increasingly utilize sensitive data on a widespread scale, differential privacy (DP) offers formal guarantees to protect against information leakage during model training. A significant challenge remains in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jay Chooi , Kevin Cong , Russell Li , Lillian Sun

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

Artificial intelligence (AI) has seen a tremendous surge in capabilities thanks to the use of foundation models trained on internet-scale data. On the flip side, the uncurated nature of internet-scale data also poses significant privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Yaodong Yu , Maziar Sanjabi , Yi Ma , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Chuan Guo

Differential privacy (DP) is widely being employed in the industry as a practical standard for privacy protection. While private training of computer vision or natural language processing applications has been studied extensively, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Juntaek Lim , Youngeun Kwon , Ranggi Hwang , Kiwan Maeng , G. Edward Suh , Minsoo Rhu

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to protect data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. The DP techniques, however, hinder achieving a greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

Differentially private (DP) transfer learning, i.e., fine-tuning a pretrained model on private data, is the current state-of-the-art approach for training large models under privacy constraints. We focus on two key hyperparameters in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Aki Rehn , Linzh Zhao , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Honkela

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