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The Noisy-SGD algorithm is widely used for privately training machine learning models. Traditional privacy analyses of this algorithm assume that the internal state is publicly revealed, resulting in privacy loss bounds that increase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shahab Asoodeh , Mario Diaz

When applied to large-scale learning problems, the conventional wisdom on privacy-preserving deep learning, known as Differential Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), has met with limited success due to significant performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jian Du , Haitao Mi

While machine learning has achieved remarkable results in a wide variety of domains, the training of models often requires large datasets that may need to be collected from different individuals. As sensitive information may be contained in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Richeng Jin , Xiaofan He , Huaiyu Dai

As the use of large embedding models in recommendation systems and language applications increases, concerns over user data privacy have also risen. DP-SGD, a training algorithm that combines differential privacy with stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Badih Ghazi , Yangsibo Huang , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

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…

Differential privacy is widely employed in decentralized learning to safeguard sensitive data by introducing noise into model updates. However, existing approaches that use fixed-variance noise often degrade model performance and reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiaoming Wu , Teng Liu , Xin Wang , Ming Yang , Jiguo Yu

We present backpropagation clipping, a novel variant of differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) for privacy-preserving deep learning. Our approach clips each trainable layer's inputs (during the forward pass) and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Timothy Stevens , Ivoline C. Ngong , David Darais , Calvin Hirsch , David Slater , Joseph P. Near

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) is a variation of stochastic gradient descent based on the Differential Privacy (DP) paradigm, which can mitigate privacy threats that arise from the presence of sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Ali Davody , David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Thomas Kleinbauer , Dietrich Klakow

Protecting privacy in learning while maintaining the model performance has become increasingly critical in many applications that involve sensitive data. Private Gradient Descent (PGD) is a commonly used private learning framework, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Junyuan Hong , Zhangyang Wang , Jiayu Zhou

In this paper, we propose a differentially private decentralized learning method (termed PrivSGP-VR) which employs stochastic gradient push with variance reduction and guarantees $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy (DP) for each node.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zehan Zhu , Yan Huang , Xin Wang , Jinming Xu

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a widely adopted technique for privacy-preserving deep learning. A critical challenge in DP-SGD is selecting the optimal clipping threshold C, which involves balancing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Chengkun Wei , Weixian Li , Chen Gong , Wenzhi Chen

In privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) performs worse than SGD due to per-sample gradient clipping and noise addition. A recent focus in private learning research is improving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Xinyu Tang , Ashwinee Panda , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with small batches using Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) yields superior test performance compared to larger batches. The specific noise structure inherent to SGD is known to be responsible for this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-14 Tom Sander , Maxime Sylvestre , Alain Durmus

We show that differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) can yield poorly calibrated, overconfident deep learning models. This represents a serious issue for safety-critical applications, e.g. in medical diagnosis. We…

Differential privacy (DP) has been applied in deep learning for preserving privacy of the underlying training sets. Existing DP practice falls into three categories - objective perturbation, gradient perturbation and output perturbation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Zhigang Lu , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Darren Webb , Peter Dickinson

As large language models (LLMs) increasingly underpin technological advancements, the privacy of their training data emerges as a critical concern. Differential Privacy (DP) serves as a rigorous mechanism to protect this data, yet its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Liangyu Wang , Junxiao Wang , Jie Ren , Zihang Xiang , David E. Keyes , Di Wang

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

Differential privacy (DP) has become a prevalent privacy model in a wide range of machine learning tasks, especially after the debut of DP-SGD. However, DP-SGD, which directly perturbs gradients in the training iterations, fails to mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jiawei Duan , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Xinyue Sun

Differentially private learning is essential for training models on sensitive data, but empirical studies consistently show that it can degrade performance, introduce fairness issues like disparate impact, and reduce adversarial robustness.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ruichen Xu , Kexin Chen

This article introduces differentially private log-location-scale (DP-LLS) regression models, which incorporate differential privacy into LLS regression through the functional mechanism. The proposed models are established by injecting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-16 Jiewen Sheng , Xiaolei Fang