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With changes in privacy laws, there is often a hard requirement for client data to remain on the device rather than being sent to the server. Therefore, most processing happens on the device, and only an altered element is sent to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ajinkya K Mulay

The Shapley value has been proposed as a solution to many applications in machine learning, including for equitable valuation of data. Shapley values are computationally expensive and involve the entire dataset. The query for a point's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Lauren Watson , Rayna Andreeva , Hao-Tsung Yang , Rik Sarkar

This paper considers distributed optimization problems, where each agent cooperatively minimizes the sum of local objective functions through the communication with its neighbors. The widely adopted distributed gradient method in solving…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Yeming Xu , Ziyuan Guo , Kaihong Lu , Huanshui Zhang

Parameter-transfer is a well-known and versatile approach for meta-learning, with applications including few-shot learning, federated learning, and reinforcement learning. However, parameter-transfer algorithms often require sharing models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Jeffrey Li , Mikhail Khodak , Sebastian Caldas , Ameet Talwalkar

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

In this paper, we focus on simple bilevel optimization problems, where we minimize a convex smooth objective function over the optimal solution set of another convex smooth constrained optimization problem. We present a novel bilevel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-03 Jincheng Cao , Ruichen Jiang , Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani , Aryan Mokhtari

Per-example gradient clipping is a key algorithmic step that enables practical differential private (DP) training for deep learning models. The choice of clipping threshold R, however, is vital for achieving high accuracy under DP. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Zhiqi Bu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Sheng Zha , George Karypis

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee preventing adversaries with access to a machine learning model from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Soham De , Leonard Berrada , Jamie Hayes , Samuel L. Smith , Borja Balle

We study the task of $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially private online convex optimization (OCO). In the online setting, the release of each distinct decision or iterate carries with it the potential for privacy loss. This problem has a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Naman Agarwal , Satyen Kale , Karan Singh , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

We study differentially private stochastic optimization in convex and non-convex settings. For the convex case, we focus on the family of non-smooth generalized linear losses (GLLs). Our algorithm for the $\ell_2$ setting achieves optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Raef Bassily , Cristóbal Guzmán , Michael Menart

Bilevel optimization recently has received tremendous attention due to its great success in solving important machine learning problems like meta learning, reinforcement learning, and hyperparameter optimization. Extending single-agent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Xuxing Chen , Minhui Huang , Shiqian Ma , Krishnakumar Balasubramanian

We present novel, computationally efficient, and differentially private algorithms for two fundamental high-dimensional learning problems: learning a multivariate Gaussian and learning a product distribution over the Boolean hypercube in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Gautam Kamath , Jerry Li , Vikrant Singhal , Jonathan Ullman

This paper considers distributed optimization (DO) where multiple agents cooperate to minimize a global objective function, expressed as a sum of local objectives, subject to some constraints. In DO, each agent iteratively solves a local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

Finding the optimal hyperparameters of a model can be cast as a bilevel optimization problem, typically solved using zero-order techniques. In this work we study first-order methods when the inner optimization problem is convex but…

This article establishes a method to answer a finite set of linear queries on a given dataset while ensuring differential privacy. To achieve this, we formulate the corresponding task as a saddle-point problem, i.e. an optimization problem…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-05 Giorgio Micali , Clement Lezane , Annika Betken

Real-world deployments routinely face distribution shifts, group imbalances, and adversarial perturbations, under which the traditional Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) framework can degrade severely. Distributionally Robust Optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Difei Xu , Meng Ding , Zebin Ma , Huanyi Xie , Youming Tao , Aicha Slaitane , Di Wang

This paper focuses on the problem of Differentially Private Stochastic Optimization for (multi-layer) fully connected neural networks with a single output node. In the first part, we examine cases with no hidden nodes, specifically focusing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Hanpu Shen , Cheng-Long Wang , Zihang Xiang , Yiming Ying , Di Wang

Differentially private distributed stochastic optimization has become a hot topic due to the urgent need of privacy protection in distributed stochastic optimization. In this paper, two-time scale stochastic approximation-type algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

Differential privacy is a widely accepted measure of privacy in the context of deep learning algorithms, and achieving it relies on a noisy training approach known as differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD). DP-SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Ce Feng , Nuo Xu , Wujie Wen , Parv Venkitasubramaniam , Caiwen Ding

We investigate the differential privacy (DP) guarantees under the hidden state assumption (HSA) for multi-convex problems. Recent analyses of privacy loss under the hidden state assumption have relied on strong assumptions such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ding Chen , Chen Liu