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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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

Analyzing data owned by several parties while achieving a good trade-off between utility and privacy is a key challenge in federated learning and analytics. In this work, we introduce a novel relaxation of local differential privacy (LDP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Edwige Cyffers , Aurélien Bellet

Decentralized algorithms for stochastic optimization and learning rely on the diffusion of information as a result of repeated local exchanges of intermediate estimates. Such structures are particularly appealing in situations where agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

Decentralized learning over distributed datasets can have significantly different data distributions across the agents. The current state-of-the-art decentralized algorithms mostly assume the data distributions to be Independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Sai Aparna Aketi , Sangamesh Kodge , Kaushik Roy

Training generative models with differential privacy (DP) typically involves injecting noise into gradient updates or adapting the discriminator's training procedure. As a result, such approaches often struggle with hyper-parameter tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kristjan Greenewald , Yuancheng Yu , Hao Wang , Kai Xu

Deep Learning has recently become hugely popular in machine learning, providing significant improvements in classification accuracy in the presence of highly-structured and large databases. Researchers have also considered privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Briland Hitaj , Giuseppe Ateniese , Fernando Perez-Cruz

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

Federated learning (FL) is a common and practical framework for learning a machine model in a decentralized fashion. A primary motivation behind this decentralized approach is data privacy, ensuring that the learner never sees the data of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Yeojoon Youn , Zihao Hu , Juba Ziani , Jacob Abernethy

In Federated Learning (FL), multiple clients jointly train a machine learning model by sharing gradient information, instead of raw data, with a server over multiple rounds. To address the possibility of information leakage in spite of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yashwant Krishna Pagoti , Arunesh Sinha , Shamik Sural

We consider a decentralized learning setting in which data is distributed over nodes in a graph. The goal is to learn a global model on the distributed data without involving any central entity that needs to be trusted. While gossip-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Ghadir Ayache , Salim El Rouayheb

In this paper, we propose a data privacy-preserving and communication efficient distributed GAN learning framework named Distributed Asynchronized Discriminator GAN (AsynDGAN). Our proposed framework aims to train a central generator learns…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Qi Chang , Hui Qu , Yikai Zhang , Mert Sabuncu , Chao Chen , Tong Zhang , Dimitris Metaxas

Federated Learning (FL), an emerging paradigm for fast intelligent acquisition at the network edge, enables joint training of a machine learning model over distributed data sets and computing resources with limited disclosure of local data.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Hong Xing , Osvaldo Simeone , Suzhi Bi

Decentralized Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) is an emerging neural network training approach that enables multiple agents to train a model collaboratively and simultaneously. Rather than using a central parameter server to collect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Lisang Ding , Kexin Jin , Bicheng Ying , Kun Yuan , Wotao Yin

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

The increasing demand for on-device deep learning services calls for a highly efficient manner to deploy deep neural networks (DNNs) on mobile devices with limited capacity. The cloud-based solution is a promising approach to enabling deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Ji Wang , Jianguo Zhang , Weidong Bao , Xiaomin Zhu , Bokai Cao , Philip S. Yu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising framework for distributed machine learning. It enables collaborative learning among multiple clients, utilizing distributed data and computing resources. However, FL faces challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Hojat Allah Salehi , Md Jueal Mia , S. Sandeep Pradhan , M. Hadi Amini , Farhad Shirani

Introducing noise in the training of machine learning systems is a powerful way to protect individual privacy via differential privacy guarantees, but comes at a cost to utility. This work looks at whether the inherent randomness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Stephanie L. Hyland , Shruti Tople

Decentralized learning enables the training of deep learning models over large distributed datasets generated at different locations, without the need for a central server. However, in practical scenarios, the data distribution across these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Sai Aparna Aketi , Abolfazl Hashemi , Kaushik Roy