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Federated learning, as a distributed architecture, shows great promise for applications in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS). In order to mitigate the privacy risks inherent in CPSS, the integration of differential privacy with federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jiayi Wan , Xiang Zhu , Fanzhen Liu , Wei Fan , Xiaolong Xu

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

Numerical vector aggregation plays a crucial role in privacy-sensitive applications, such as distributed gradient estimation in federated learning and statistical analysis of key-value data. In the context of local differential privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Shaowei Wang , Jin Li , Yuntong Li , Jin Li , Wei Yang , Hongyang Yan

We study the problem of maximizing privacy of data sets by adding random vectors generated via synchronized chaotic oscillators. In particular, we consider the setup where information about data sets, queries, is sent through public…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Farhad Farokhi , Dragan Nesic

Recent advances in differentially private federated learning (DPFL) algorithms have found that using correlated noise across the rounds of federated learning (DP-FTRL) yields provably and empirically better accuracy than using independent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Marshall Ball , James Bell-Clark , Adria Gascon , Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Zhiye Xie

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

A key operation in federated learning is the aggregation of gradient vectors generated by individual client nodes. We develop a method based on multiparty homomorphic encryption (MPHE) that enables the central node to compute this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Erfan Hosseini , Shuangyi Chen , Ashish Khisti

Privacy is crucial in many applications of machine learning. Legal, ethical and societal issues restrict the sharing of sensitive data making it difficult to learn from datasets that are partitioned between many parties. One important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-21 Christina Heinze-Deml , Brian McWilliams , Nicolai Meinshausen

Federated Learning allows distributed entities to train a common model collaboratively without sharing their own data. Although it prevents data collection and aggregation by exchanging only parameter updates, it remains vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

Learning from data owned by several parties, as in federated learning, raises challenges regarding the privacy guarantees provided to participants and the correctness of the computation in the presence of malicious parties. We tackle these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-31 César Sabater , Aurélien Bellet , Jan Ramon

Federated learning is a promising framework for learning over decentralized data spanning multiple regions. This approach avoids expensive central training data aggregation cost and can improve privacy because distributed sites do not have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Beomyeol Jeon , S. M. Ferdous , Muntasir Raihan Rahman , Anwar Walid

In many real-world applications, due to recent developments in the privacy landscape, training data may be aggregated to preserve the privacy of sensitive training labels. In the learning from label proportions (LLP) framework, the dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Anand Brahmbhatt , Rishi Saket , Shreyas Havaldar , Anshul Nasery , Aravindan Raghuveer

Federated learning is a collaborative method that aims to preserve data privacy while creating AI models. Current approaches to federated learning tend to rely heavily on secure aggregation protocols to preserve data privacy. However, to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 John Reuben Gilbert

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed agents to collaboratively learn a centralized model without sharing their raw data with each other. However, data locality does not provide sufficient privacy protection, and it is desirable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Rui Hu , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo

We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes visible to a service provider while maintaining high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Peter Kairouz , Stefan Mellem , Adrià Gascón , Kallista Bonawitz , Deborah Estrin , Marco Gruteser

We introduce a deep learning framework able to deal with strong privacy constraints. Based on collaborative learning, differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, the proposed approach advances state-of-the-art of private deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Arnaud Grivet Sébert , Rafael Pinot , Martin Zuber , Cédric Gouy-Pailler , Renaud Sirdey

Institutions may benefit from collaborative inference on time-series data. In settings where privacy is necessary, multi-party computation (MPC) is a straightforward approach to providing strong guarantees, yet it remains prohibitively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Lucas Fenaux , Larris Xie , Aditya Bang , Alex Zhang , Kevin Wilson , Florian Kerschbaum

A key factor in developing high performing machine learning models is the availability of sufficiently large datasets. This work is motivated by applications arising in Software as a Service (SaaS) companies where there exist numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Sophia Collet , Robert Dadashi , Zahi N. Karam , Chang Liu , Parinaz Sobhani , Yevgeniy Vahlis , Ji Chao Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to jointly train a model by sharing only gradient updates for aggregation instead of raw data. Due to the transmission of very high-dimensional gradient updates from many clients, FL is known…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shuangqing Xu , Yifeng Zheng , Zhongyun Hua

In this work, we investigate the problem of private statistical analysis in the distributed and semi-honest setting. In particular, we study properties of Private Stream Aggregation schemes, first introduced by Shi et al. \cite{2}. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Filipp Valovich , Francesco Aldà