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We provide new lower bounds on the privacy guarantee of the multi-epoch Adaptive Batch Linear Queries (ABLQ) mechanism with shuffled batch sampling, demonstrating substantial gaps when compared to Poisson subsampling; prior analysis was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Lynn Chua , Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

The Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) algorithm supports the training of machine learning (ML) models with formal Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees. Traditionally, DP-SGD processes training data in batches using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Borja Balle , Jamie Hayes , Emiliano De Cristofaro

We introduce the Balls-and-Bins sampling for differentially private (DP) optimization methods such as DP-SGD. While it has been common practice to use some form of shuffling in DP-SGD implementations, privacy accounting algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Lynn Chua , Badih Ghazi , Charlie Harrison , Ethan Leeman , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used to protect training data in machine learning. Its privacy guarantee is commonly analyzed through a security game in which an adversary infers whether a target record…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wenhao Wang , Shujie Cui , Hui Cui , Xingliang Yuan

Privacy preservation in machine learning, particularly through Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), is critical for sensitive data analysis. However, existing statistical inference methods for SGD predominantly focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-15 Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang , Zhanrui Cai

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) forms a fundamental building block in many applications for learning over sensitive data. Two standard approaches, privacy amplification by subsampling, and privacy amplification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Borja Balle , Peter Kairouz , H. Brendan McMahan , Om Thakkar , Abhradeep Thakurta

Classical differential private DP-SGD implements individual clipping with random subsampling, which forces a mini-batch SGD approach. We provide a general differential private algorithmic framework that goes beyond DP-SGD and allows any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Marten van Dijk , Phuong Ha Nguyen , Toan N. Nguyen , Lam M. Nguyen

Personalized privacy becomes critical in deep learning for Trustworthy AI. While Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used in deep learning methods supporting privacy, it provides the same level of privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Geon Heo , Junseok Seo , Steven Euijong Whang

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the standard algorithm for training machine learning models under differential privacy (DP). The most common DP-SGD privacy accountants rely on Poisson subsampling to ensure the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sebastian Rodriguez Beltran , Marlon Tobaben , Joonas Jälkö , Niki Loppi , Antti Honkela

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is the dominant paradigm for private training, but its fundamental limitations under worst-case adversarial privacy definitions remain poorly understood. We analyze DP-SGD in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Murat Bilgehan Ertan , Marten van Dijk

Poisson subsampling is the default sampling scheme in differentially private machine learning, largely because its unstructured randomness yields tractable privacy amplification analyses. Yet this same randomness introduces substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Andy Dong , Ayfer Özgür

We consider training models with differential privacy (DP) using mini-batch gradients. The existing state-of-the-art, Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), requires privacy amplification by sampling or shuffling to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Peter Kairouz , Brendan McMahan , Shuang Song , Om Thakkar , Abhradeep Thakurta , Zheng Xu

We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data is used in $k$ steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of $t$ steps. This sampling scheme has been recently applied in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Vitaly Feldman , Moshe Shenfeld

Differential Privacy (DP) mechanisms, especially in high-dimensional settings, often face the challenge of maintaining privacy without compromising the data utility. This work introduces an innovative shuffling mechanism in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jungang Yang , Zhe Ji , Liyao Xiang

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

We consider the problem of computing tight privacy guarantees for the composition of subsampled differentially private mechanisms. Recent algorithms can numerically compute the privacy parameters to arbitrary precision but must be carefully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Christian Janos Lebeda , Matthew Regehr , Gautam Kamath , Thomas Steinke

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has been instrumental in privately training deep learning models by providing a framework to control and track the privacy loss incurred during training. At the core of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Jeremiah Birrell , Reza Ebrahimi , Rouzbeh Behnia , Jason Pacheco

We study the problem of differentially private linear regression where each data point is sampled from a fixed sub-Gaussian style distribution. We propose and analyze a one-pass mini-batch stochastic gradient descent method (DP-AMBSSGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Prateek Varshney , Abhradeep Thakurta , Prateek Jain

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely used to protect sensitive data during the training of machine learning models, but its privacy guarantee often comes at a large cost of model performance due to the lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Hao Liang , Wanrong Zhang , Xinlei He , Kaishun Wu , Hong Xing

Many forms of sensitive data, such as web traffic, mobility data, or hospital occupancy, are inherently sequential. The standard method for training machine learning models while ensuring privacy for units of sensitive information, such as…

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