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We study stochastic convex optimization (SCO) with heavy-tailed gradients under pure $\varepsilon$-differential privacy (DP). Instead of assuming a bound on the worst-case Lipschitz parameter of the loss, we assume only a bounded $k$-th…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Andrew Lowy

We study the problem of Differentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization (DP-SCO) with heavy-tailed data. Specifically, we focus on the $\ell_1$-norm linear regression in the $\epsilon$-DP model. While most of the previous work focuses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

We study stochastic convex optimization with heavy-tailed data under the constraint of differential privacy (DP). Most prior work on this problem is restricted to the case where the loss function is Lipschitz. Instead, as introduced by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Gautam Kamath , Xingtu Liu , Huanyu Zhang

We study differentially private (DP) stochastic optimization (SO) with loss functions whose worst-case Lipschitz parameter over all data may be extremely large or infinite. To date, the vast majority of work on DP SO assumes that the loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Andrew Lowy , Meisam Razaviyayn

We study convex optimization problems under differential privacy (DP). With heavy-tailed gradients, existing works achieve suboptimal rates. The main obstacle is that existing gradient estimators have suboptimal tail properties, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Puning Zhao , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu , Chong Wang , Rongfei Fan , Qingming Li

In this paper, we consider the problem of designing Differentially Private (DP) algorithms for Stochastic Convex Optimization (SCO) on heavy-tailed data. The irregularity of such data violates some key assumptions used in almost all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Di Wang , Hanshen Xiao , Srini Devadas , Jinhui Xu

We study Stochastic Convex Optimization in the Differential Privacy model (DP-SCO). Unlike previous studies, here we assume the population risk function satisfies the Tsybakov Noise Condition (TNC) with some parameter $\theta>1$, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Difei Xu , Meng Ding , Zihang Xiang , Jinhui Xu , Di Wang

Differentially private (DP) stochastic convex optimization (SCO) is a fundamental problem, where the goal is to approximately minimize the population risk with respect to a convex loss function, given a dataset of $n$ i.i.d. samples from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Raef Bassily , Cristóbal Guzmán , Anupama Nandi

We consider stochastic convex optimization for heavy-tailed data with the guarantee of being differentially private (DP). Most prior works on differentially private stochastic convex optimization for heavy-tailed data are either restricted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Chenhan Jin , Kaiwen Zhou , Bo Han , James Cheng , Tieyong Zeng

We study differentially private (DP) algorithms for stochastic convex optimization (SCO). In this problem the goal is to approximately minimize the population loss given i.i.d. samples from a distribution over convex and Lipschitz loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Raef Bassily , Vitaly Feldman , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

As one of the most fundamental problems in machine learning, statistics and differential privacy, Differentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization (DP-SCO) has been extensively studied in recent years. However, most of the previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Lijie Hu , Shuo Ni , Hanshen Xiao , Di Wang

User-level differentially private stochastic convex optimization (DP-SCO) has garnered significant attention due to the paramount importance of safeguarding user privacy in modern large-scale machine learning applications. Current methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Daogao Liu , Pasin Manurangsi

We study differentially private stochastic convex optimization (DP-SCO) under user-level privacy, where each user may hold multiple data items. Existing work for user-level DP-SCO either requires super-polynomial runtime [Ghazi et al.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Hilal Asi , Daogao Liu

We study differentially private (DP) algorithms for stochastic convex optimization: the problem of minimizing the population loss given i.i.d. samples from a distribution over convex loss functions. A recent work of Bassily et al. (2019)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Vitaly Feldman , Tomer Koren , Kunal Talwar

In this paper, we are concerned with differentially private {stochastic gradient descent (SGD)} algorithms in the setting of stochastic convex optimization (SCO). Most of the existing work requires the loss to be Lipschitz continuous and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-23 Puyu Wang , Yunwen Lei , Yiming Ying , Hai Zhang

We study private stochastic convex optimization (SCO) under user-level differential privacy (DP) constraints. In this setting, there are $n$ users (e.g., cell phones), each possessing $m$ data items (e.g., text messages), and we need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Andrew Lowy , Daogao Liu , Hilal Asi

In this paper, we revisit the problem of Differentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization (DP-SCO) and provide excess population risks for some special classes of functions that are faster than the previous results of general convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jinyan Su , Lijie Hu , Di Wang

In this paper, we revisit the problem of Differentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization (DP-SCO) in Euclidean and general $\ell_p^d$ spaces. Specifically, we focus on three settings that are still far from well understood: (1) DP-SCO…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Jinyan Su , Changhong Zhao , Di Wang

Most prior results on differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) are derived under the simplistic assumption of uniform Lipschitzness, i.e., the per-sample gradients are uniformly bounded. We generalize uniform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Rudrajit Das , Satyen Kale , Zheng Xu , Tong Zhang , Sujay Sanghavi

We show that convex-concave Lipschitz stochastic saddle point problems (also known as stochastic minimax optimization) can be solved under the constraint of $(\epsilon,\delta)$-differential privacy with \emph{strong (primal-dual) gap} rate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Raef Bassily , Cristóbal Guzmán , Michael Menart
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