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The Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) is a popular machine learning model for various tasks in recent years. In this paper, we study how to improve model accuracy of GBDT while preserving the strong guarantee of differential privacy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Qinbin Li , Zhaomin Wu , Zeyi Wen , Bingsheng He

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

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

Differential Privacy (DP) is the leading approach to privacy preserving deep learning. As such, there are multiple efforts to provide drop-in integration of DP into popular frameworks. These efforts, which add noise to each gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Mathias Lécuyer

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

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into real-time machine learning applications, where safeguarding user privacy is paramount. Traditional differential privacy mechanisms often struggle to balance privacy and accuracy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jessica Smith , David Williams , Emily Brown

Differential Privacy (DP) is an important privacy-enhancing technology for private machine learning systems. It allows to measure and bound the risk associated with an individual participation in a computation. However, it was recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Cuong Tran , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

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

We study a pitfall in the typical workflow for differentially private machine learning. The use of differentially private learning algorithms in a "drop-in" fashion -- without accounting for the impact of differential privacy (DP) noise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Wenxuan Bao , Luke A. Bauer , Vincent Bindschaedler

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

Machine learning (ML) algorithms rely primarily on the availability of training data, and, depending on the domain, these data may include sensitive information about the data providers, thus leading to significant privacy issues.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Karima Makhlouf , Tamara Stefanovic , Heber H. Arcolezi , Catuscia Palamidessi

Nowadays, differential privacy (DP) has become a well-accepted standard for privacy protection, and deep neural networks (DNN) have been immensely successful in machine learning. The combination of these two techniques, i.e., deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jianxin Wei , Ergute Bao , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang

Applying machine learning (ML) to sensitive domains requires privacy protection of the underlying training data through formal privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). Yet, usually, the privacy of the training data comes at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Franziska Boenisch , Christopher Mühl , Roy Rinberg , Jannis Ihrig , Adam Dziedzic

Machine learning models have shone in a variety of domains and attracted increasing attention from both the security and the privacy communities. One important yet worrying question is: Will training models under the differential privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yuan Zhang , Zhiqi Bu

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

In this paper, we aim to develop a scalable algorithm to preserve differential privacy (DP) in adversarial learning for deep neural networks (DNNs), with certified robustness to adversarial examples. By leveraging the sequential composition…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 NhatHai Phan , My T. Thai , Han Hu , Ruoming Jin , Tong Sun , Dejing Dou

Tuning the hyperparameters of differentially private (DP) machine learning (ML) algorithms often requires use of sensitive data and this may leak private information via hyperparameter values. Recently, Papernot and Steinke (2022) proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

Deep neural networks often use large, high-quality datasets to achieve high performance on many machine learning tasks. When training involves potentially sensitive data, this process can raise privacy concerns, as large models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Felix Zhou , Samson Zhou , Vahab Mirrokni , Alessandro Epasto , Vincent Cohen-Addad

Machine learning (ML) models can memorize training datasets. As a result, training ML models over private datasets can lead to the violation of individuals' privacy. Differential privacy (DP) is a rigorous privacy notion to preserve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Mohammad Hoseinpour , Milad Hoseinpour , Ali Aghagolzadeh

State-of-the-art approaches for training Differentially Private (DP) Deep Neural Networks (DNN) face difficulties to estimate tight bounds on the sensitivity of the network's layers, and instead rely on a process of per-sample gradient…