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Machine learning models can leak information about the data used to train them. To mitigate this issue, Differentially Private (DP) variants of optimization algorithms like Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) have been designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Paul Mangold , Aurélien Bellet , Joseph Salmon , Marc Tommasi

Differentially private (DP) machine learning allows us to train models on private data while limiting data leakage. DP formalizes this data leakage through a cryptographic game, where an adversary must predict if a model was trained on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Milad Nasr , Shuang Song , Abhradeep Thakurta , Nicolas Papernot , Nicholas Carlini

Privacy estimation techniques for differentially private (DP) algorithms are useful for comparing against analytical bounds, or to empirically measure privacy loss in settings where known analytical bounds are not tight. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Galen Andrew , Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Alina Oprea , H. Brendan McMahan , Vinith M. Suriyakumar

Prior work on differential privacy analysis of randomized SGD algorithms relies on composition theorems, where the implicit (unrealistic) assumption is that the internal state of the iterative algorithm is revealed to the adversary. As a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Jiayuan Ye , Reza Shokri

Personalized privacy becomes critical in deep learning for Trustworthy AI. While Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used in deep learning methods supporting privacy, it provides the same level of privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Geon Heo , Junseok Seo , Steven Euijong Whang

Imagine training a machine learning model with Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), only to discover post-training that the noise level was either too high, crippling your model's utility, or too low, compromising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 David Zagardo

We consider three different variants of differential privacy (DP), namely approximate DP, R\'enyi DP (RDP), and hypothesis test DP. In the first part, we develop a machinery for optimally relating approximate DP to RDP based on the joint…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shahab Asoodeh , Jiachun Liao , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent with Gradient Clipping (DPSGD-GC) is a powerful tool for training deep learning models using sensitive data, providing both a solid theoretical privacy guarantee and high efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xinwei Zhang , Zhiqi Bu , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Mingyi Hong

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used to protect training data in machine learning. Its privacy guarantee is commonly analyzed through a security game in which an adversary infers whether a target record…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wenhao Wang , Shujie Cui , Hui Cui , Xingliang Yuan

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

A well-known algorithm in privacy-preserving ML is differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD). While this algorithm has been evaluated on text and image data, it has not been previously applied to ads data, which are…

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely used to protect sensitive data during the training of machine learning models, but its privacy guarantee often comes at a large cost of model performance due to the lack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Hao Liang , Wanrong Zhang , Xinlei He , Kaishun Wu , Hong Xing

We study the problem of differentially private linear regression where each data point is sampled from a fixed sub-Gaussian style distribution. We propose and analyze a one-pass mini-batch stochastic gradient descent method (DP-AMBSSGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Prateek Varshney , Abhradeep Thakurta , Prateek Jain

Differentially private SGD (DP-SGD) is one of the most popular methods for solving differentially private empirical risk minimization (ERM). Due to its noisy perturbation on each gradient update, the error rate of DP-SGD scales with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yingxue Zhou , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Arindam Banerjee

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal framework for training machine learning models with individual example level privacy. In the field of deep learning, Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Harsh Mehta , Abhradeep Thakurta , Alexey Kurakin , Ashok Cutkosky

Recent advances in deep learning have drastically improved performance on many Natural Language Understanding (NLU) tasks. However, the data used to train NLU models may contain private information such as addresses or phone numbers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Christophe Dupuy , Radhika Arava , Rahul Gupta , Anna Rumshisky

In this paper, we consider efficient differentially private empirical risk minimization from the viewpoint of optimization algorithms. For strongly convex and smooth objectives, we prove that gradient descent with output perturbation not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Jiaqi Zhang , Kai Zheng , Wenlong Mou , Liwei Wang

Recently, due to the popularity of deep neural networks and other methods whose training typically relies on the optimization of an objective function, and due to concerns for data privacy, there is a lot of interest in differentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Antoine Barczewski , Jan Ramon

Differential privacy (DP) auditing aims to provide empirical lower bounds on the privacy guarantees of DP mechanisms like DP-SGD. While some existing techniques require many training runs that are prohibitively costly, recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Terrance Liu , Matteo Boglioni , Yiwei Fu , Shengyuan Hu , Pratiksha Thaker , Zhiwei Steven Wu

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