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The injection of heavy-tailed noise into the iterates of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has garnered growing interest in recent years due to its theoretical and empirical benefits for optimization and generalization. However, its…

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ML models are ubiquitous in real world applications and are a constant focus of research. At the same time, the community has started to realize the importance of protecting the privacy of ML training data. Differential Privacy (DP) has…

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,…

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Algorithms such as Differentially Private SGD enable training machine learning models with formal privacy guarantees. However, there is a discrepancy between the protection that such algorithms guarantee in theory and the protection they…

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is the dominant paradigm for private training, but its fundamental limitations under worst-case adversarial privacy definitions remain poorly understood. We analyze DP-SGD in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Murat Bilgehan Ertan , Marten van Dijk

Differential privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee that prevents adversaries with access to machine learning models from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially private stochastic gradient descent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jie Fu , Zhili Chen , XinPeng Ling

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

In differentially private (DP) machine learning, the privacy guarantees of DP mechanisms are often reported and compared on the basis of a single $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-pair. This practice overlooks that DP guarantees can vary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Georgios Kaissis , Stefan Kolek , Borja Balle , Jamie Hayes , Daniel Rueckert

When applied to large-scale learning problems, the conventional wisdom on privacy-preserving deep learning, known as Differential Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD), has met with limited success due to significant performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jian Du , Haitao Mi

Differential Privacy (DP) provides tight upper bounds on the capabilities of optimal adversaries, but such adversaries are rarely encountered in practice. Under the hypothesis testing/membership inference interpretation of DP, we examine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Georgios Kaissis , Alexander Ziller , Stefan Kolek Martinez de Azagra , Daniel Rueckert

Differential privacy (DP) is a privacy-preserving paradigm that protects the training data when training deep learning models. Critically, the performance of models is determined by the training hyperparameters, especially those of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiqi Bu , Ruixuan Liu

Differential Privacy (DP) is being increasingly adopted for non-Euclidean data that lie on complex, high-dimensional manifolds. Existing DP mechanisms for manifold data consider geometric properties when calibrating privacy perturbations,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Peilin He , Liou Tang , M. Amin Rahimian , James Joshi

The Gaussian distribution is widely used in mechanism design for differential privacy (DP). Thanks to its sub-Gaussian tail, it significantly reduces the chance of outliers when responding to queries. However, it can only provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Parastoo Sadeghi , Mehdi Korki

Learning with relational and network-structured data is increasingly vital in sensitive domains where protecting the privacy of individual entities is paramount. Differential Privacy (DP) offers a principled approach for quantifying privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yinan Huang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Rongzhe Wei , Pan Li

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has been widely used for solving optimization problems with privacy guarantees in machine learning and statistics. Despite this, a systematic non-asymptotic convergence analysis…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-10 Enze Shi , Jinhan Xie , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong , Xuming He

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard of privacy preservation due to its strong protection and sound mathematical foundation, which is widely adopted in different applications such as big data analysis, graph data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Honglu Jiang , Yifeng Gao , S M Sarwar , Luis GarzaPerez , Mahmudul Robin

Most existing decentralized learning methods with differential privacy (DP) guarantee rely on constant gradient clipping bounds and fixed-level DP Gaussian noises for each node throughout the training process, leading to a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Zehan Zhu , Yan Huang , Xin Wang , Shouling Ji , Jinming Xu

Federated Learning (FL) allows for the training of Machine Learning models in a collaborative manner without the need to share sensitive data. However, it remains vulnerable to Gradient Leakage Attacks (GLAs), which can reveal private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Miguel Fernandez-de-Retana , Unai Zulaika , Rubén Sánchez-Corcuera , Aitor Almeida

In the social sciences, small- to medium-scale datasets are common, and linear regression is canonical. In privacy-aware settings, much work has focused on differentially private (DP) linear regression, but mostly on point estimation with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shurong Lin , Aleksandra Slavković , Deekshith Reddy Bhoomireddy

While location trajectories offer valuable insights, they also reveal sensitive personal information. Differential Privacy (DP) offers formal protection, but achieving a favourable utility-privacy trade-off remains challenging. Recent works…

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