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Differential privacy (DP) is a prominent method for protecting information about individuals during data analysis. Training neural networks with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) influences the model's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lea Demelius , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

We consider the problem of communication-constrained collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Yauhen Yakimenka , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

Nowadays, the ubiquitous usage of mobile devices and networks have raised concerns about the loss of control over personal data and research advance towards the trade-off between privacy and utility in scenarios that combine exchange…

Federated learning enables machine learning models to learn from private decentralized data without compromising privacy. The standard formulation of federated learning produces one shared model for all clients. Statistical heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Viraj Kulkarni , Milind Kulkarni , Aniruddha Pant

We introduce a deep learning framework able to deal with strong privacy constraints. Based on collaborative learning, differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, the proposed approach advances state-of-the-art of private deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Arnaud Grivet Sébert , Rafael Pinot , Martin Zuber , Cédric Gouy-Pailler , Renaud Sirdey

Federated Learning (FL) is a distributed learning paradigm that enables mutually untrusting clients to collaboratively train a common machine learning model. Client data privacy is paramount in FL. At the same time, the model must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hamid Mozaffari , Virendra J. Marathe , Dave Dice

In large-scale statistical learning, data collection and model fitting are moving increasingly toward peripheral devices---phones, watches, fitness trackers---away from centralized data collection. Concomitant with this rise in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-04 Abhishek Bhowmick , John Duchi , Julien Freudiger , Gaurav Kapoor , Ryan Rogers

We study distributed estimation and learning problems in a networked environment where agents exchange information to estimate unknown statistical properties of random variables from their privately observed samples. The agents can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-promoting framework that enables potentially large number of clients to collaboratively train machine learning models. In a FL system, a server coordinates the collaboration by collecting and aggregating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Huancheng Chen , Haris Vikalo

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…

Leveraging real-world health data for machine learning tasks requires addressing many practical challenges, such as distributed data silos, privacy concerns with creating a centralized database from person-specific sensitive data, resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Olivia Choudhury , Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis , Theodoros Salonidis , Issa Sylla , Yoonyoung Park , Grace Hsu , Amar Das

Federated learning (FL), where data remains at the federated clients, and where only gradient updates are shared with a central aggregator, was assumed to be private. Recent work demonstrates that adversaries with gradient-level access can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Varun Chandrasekaran , Suman Banerjee , Diego Perino , Nicolas Kourtellis

We study the privatization of distributed learning and optimization strategies. We focus on differential privacy schemes and study their effect on performance. We show that the popular additive random perturbation scheme degrades…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Deep neural networks have shown the ability to extract universal feature representations from data such as images and text that have been useful for a variety of learning tasks. However, the fruits of representation learning have yet to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Liam Collins , Hamed Hassani , Aryan Mokhtari , Sanjay Shakkottai

Federated learning is a decentralized machine learning approach where clients train models locally and share model updates to develop a global model. This enables low-resource devices to collaboratively build a high-quality model without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Li Bai , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Haoyang Li , Leixia Wang , Jianliang Xu

Everyday, large amounts of sensitive data is distributed across mobile phones, wearable devices, and other sensors. Traditionally, these enormous datasets have been processed on a single system, with complex models being trained to make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Zongshun Zhang , Andrea Pinto , Valeria Turina , Flavio Esposito , Ibrahim Matta

We introduce the linear-transformation model, a distributed model of differentially private data analysis. Clients have access to a trusted platform capable of applying a public matrix to their inputs. Such computations can be securely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jakob Burkhardt , Hannah Keller , Claudio Orlandi , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We study statistical estimation under local differential privacy (LDP) when users may hold heterogeneous privacy levels and accuracy must be guaranteed with high probability. Departing from the common in-expectation analyses, and for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Alireza Fallah , Swaha Roy , Ria Stevens

Ratio statistics--such as relative risk and odds ratios--play a central role in hypothesis testing, model evaluation, and decision-making across many areas of machine learning, including causal inference and fairness analysis. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-28 Tomer Shoham , Katrina Ligettt

Federated Learning (FL) is emerging as a promising paradigm of privacy-preserving machine learning, which trains an algorithm across multiple clients without exchanging their data samples. Recent works highlighted several privacy and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yaowei Han , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa