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There is a dearth of convergence results for differentially private federated learning (FL) with non-Lipschitz objective functions (i.e., when gradient norms are not bounded). The primary reason for this is that the clipping operation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Rudrajit Das , Abolfazl Hashemi , Sujay Sanghavi , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Federated Learning (FL) is a paradigm for large-scale distributed learning which faces two key challenges: (i) efficient training from highly heterogeneous user data, and (ii) protecting the privacy of participating users. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Maxence Noble , Aurélien Bellet , Aymeric Dieuleveut

Federated machine learning leverages edge computing to develop models from network user data, but privacy in federated learning remains a major challenge. Techniques using differential privacy have been proposed to address this, but bring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Timothy Stevens , Christian Skalka , Christelle Vincent , John Ring , Samuel Clark , Joseph Near

Distributed optimization is the standard way of speeding up machine learning training, and most of the research in the area focuses on distributed first-order, gradient-based methods. Yet, there are settings where some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Matin Ansaripour , Shayan Talaei , Giorgi Nadiradze , Dan Alistarh

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative training of models across distributed clients without sharing local data, addressing privacy concerns in decentralized systems. However, the gradient-sharing process exposes private data to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingcong Xu , Xiaojin Zhang , Wei Chen , Hai Jin

Strict privacy is of paramount importance in distributed machine learning. Federated learning, with the main idea of communicating only what is needed for learning, has been recently introduced as a general approach for distributed learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Koskela , Kana Shimizu , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

Federated learning (FL), a novel branch of distributed machine learning (ML), develops global models through a private procedure without direct access to local datasets. However, it is still possible to access the model updates (gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Mahtab Talaei , Iman Izadi

This paper tackles the challenge of achieving Differential Privacy (DP) in Federated Learning (FL) under partial-participation, where only a subset of the machines participate in each time-step. While previous work achieved optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Roie Reshef , Kfir Yehuda Levy

Federated learning has recently gained significant attention and popularity due to its effectiveness in training machine learning models on distributed data privately. However, as in the single-node supervised learning setup, models trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Motasem Alfarra , Juan C. Pérez , Egor Shulgin , Peter Richtárik , Bernard Ghanem

Strong Differential Privacy (DP) and Optimization guarantees are two desirable properties for a method in Federated Learning (FL). However, existing algorithms do not achieve both properties at once: they either have optimal DP guarantees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Rustem Islamov , Samuel Horvath , Aurelien Lucchi , Peter Richtarik , Eduard Gorbunov

As a prevalent distributed learning paradigm, Federated Learning (FL) trains a global model on a massive amount of devices with infrequent communication. This paper investigates a class of composite optimization and statistical recovery…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yajie Bao , Michael Crawshaw , Shan Luo , Mingrui Liu

Many commonly used learning algorithms work by iteratively updating an intermediate solution using one or a few data points in each iteration. Analysis of differential privacy for such algorithms often involves ensuring privacy of each step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

Data normalization is a crucial preprocessing step for enhancing model performance and training stability. In federated learning (FL), where data remains distributed across multiple parties during collaborative model training, normalization…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Melih Coşğun , Mert Gençtürk , Sinem Sav

News recommendation is critical for personalized news access. Most existing news recommendation methods rely on centralized storage of users' historical news click behavior data, which may lead to privacy concerns and hazards. Federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Jingwei Yi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Ruixuan Liu , Guangzhong Sun , Xing Xie

This paper addresses a distributed optimization problem in a communication network where nodes are active sporadically. Each active node applies some learning method to control its action to maximize the global utility function, which is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Wenjie Li , Mohamad Assaad , Shiqi Zheng

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

Federated learning with differential privacy, or private federated learning, provides a strategy to train machine learning models while respecting users' privacy. However, differential privacy can disproportionately degrade the performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Borja Rodríguez-Gálvez , Filip Granqvist , Rogier van Dalen , Matt Seigel

Recommender systems play a pivotal role across practical scenarios, showcasing remarkable capabilities in user preference modeling. However, the centralized learning paradigm predominantly used raises serious privacy concerns. The federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Langming Liu , Wanyu Wang , Xiangyu Zhao , Zijian Zhang , Chunxu Zhang , Shanru Lin , Yiqi Wang , Lixin Zou , Zitao Liu , Xuetao Wei , Hongzhi Yin , Qing Li

Distributed optimization and learning algorithms are designed to operate over large scale networks enabling processing of vast amounts of data effectively and efficiently. One of the main challenges for ensuring a smooth learning process in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Apostolos I. Rikos , Nicola Bastianello , Themistoklis Charalambous , Karl H. Johansson

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