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Federated learning (FL) allows clients to collaboratively train a global model without sharing their local data with a server. However, clients' contributions to the server can still leak sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Jie Xu , Karthikeyan Saravanan , Rogier van Dalen , Haaris Mehmood , David Tuckey , Mete Ozay

In this paper, to effectively prevent information leakage, we propose a novel framework based on the concept of differential privacy (DP), in which artificial noises are added to the parameters at the clients side before aggregating,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Howard H. Yang , Farokhi Farhad , Shi Jin , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we focus on developing a novel mechanism to preserve differential privacy in deep neural networks, such that: (1) The privacy budget consumption is totally independent of the number of training steps; (2) It has the ability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-24 NhatHai Phan , Xintao Wu , Han Hu , Dejing Dou

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participating clients to train machine learning models collaboratively by keeping their datasets local and only exchanging model updates. Existing FL protocol designs have been shown to be vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong

We study gradient descent under linearly correlated noise. Our work is motivated by recent practical methods for optimization with differential privacy (DP), such as DP-FTRL, which achieve strong performance in settings where privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anastasia Koloskova , Ryan McKenna , Zachary Charles , Keith Rush , Brendan McMahan

Large language models (LLMs) are commonly adapted to downstream tasks through fine-tuning, but fine-tuning data often contains sensitive information that may be leaked by the resulting model. Differential privacy (DP) offers formal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haichao Sha , Zihao Wang , Yuncheng Wu , Hong Chen , Wei Dong

Fine-tuning large pre-trained foundation models (FMs) on distributed edge devices presents considerable computational and privacy challenges. Federated fine-tuning (FedFT) mitigates some privacy issues by facilitating collaborative model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Tianqu Kang , Zixin Wang , Hengtao He , Jun Zhang , Shenghui Song , Khaled B. Letaief

Federated learning aims to protect data privacy by collaboratively learning a model without sharing private data among users. However, an adversary may still be able to infer the private training data by attacking the released model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Zhicong Liang , Bao Wang , Quanquan Gu , Stanley Osher , Yuan Yao

Federated learning (FL) is a framework for training machine learning models in a distributed and collaborative manner. During training, a set of participating clients process their data stored locally, sharing only the model updates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Filippo Galli , Kangsoo Jung , Sayan Biswas , Catuscia Palamidessi , Tommaso Cucinotta

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training through model parameter exchanges instead of raw data. To avoid potential inference attacks from exchanged parameters, differential privacy (DP) offers rigorous guarantee against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shu Hong , Xiaojun Lin , Lingjie Duan

Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized, privacy-preserving model training but struggles to balance global generalization and local personalization due to non-identical data distributions across clients. Personalized Fine-Tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Minghui Chen , Hrad Ghoukasian , Ruinan Jin , Zehua Wang , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Xiaoxiao Li

Differentially private wireless federated learning (DPWFL) is a promising framework for protecting sensitive user data. However, foundational questions on how to precisely characterize privacy loss remain open, and existing work is further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chen Yaoling , Liang Hao , Tu Xiaotong

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed agents to collaboratively learn a centralized model without sharing their raw data with each other. However, data locality does not provide sufficient privacy protection, and it is desirable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Rui Hu , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo

Federated learning (FL) aims to collaboratively train the global model in a distributed manner by sharing the model parameters from local clients to a central server, thereby potentially protecting users' private information. Nevertheless,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhe Li , Honglong Chen , Zhichen Ni , Huajie Shao

Pre-training is prevalent in nowadays deep learning to improve the learned model's performance. However, in the literature on federated learning (FL), neural networks are mostly initialized with random weights. These attract our interest in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Hong-You Chen , Cheng-Hao Tu , Ziwei Li , Han-Wei Shen , Wei-Lun Chao

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients without sharing raw data, making it a promising approach for privacy-preserving machine learning. However, ensuring differential privacy (DP) in FL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Kanishka Ranaweera , David Smith , Pubudu N. Pathirana , Ming Ding , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , Aruna Seneviratne

Deep learning models leak significant amounts of information about their training datasets. Previous work has investigated training models with differential privacy (DP) guarantees through adding DP noise to the gradients. However, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Milad Nasr , Reza Shokri , Amir houmansadr

A successful machine learning (ML) algorithm often relies on a large amount of high-quality data to train well-performed models. Supervised learning approaches, such as deep learning techniques, generate high-quality ML functions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Thilina Ranbaduge , Ming Ding

Deep learning models have been extensively adopted in various regions due to their ability to represent hierarchical features, which highly rely on the training set and procedures. Thus, protecting the training process and deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Haodi Wang , Tangyu Jiang , Yu Guo , Chengjun Cai , Cong Wang , Xiaohua Jia

Federated learning (FL) is recently surging as a promising decentralized deep learning (DL) framework that enables DL-based approaches trained collaboratively across clients without sharing private data. However, in the context of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Van-Tuan Tran , Huy-Hieu Pham , Kok-Seng Wong