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A common goal of privacy research is to release synthetic data that satisfies a formal privacy guarantee and can be used by an analyst in place of the original data. To achieve reasonable accuracy, a synthetic data set must be tuned to…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

To protect the privacy of individuals whose data is being shared, it is of high importance to develop methods allowing researchers and companies to release textual data while providing formal privacy guarantees to its originators. In the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Justus Mattern , Zhijing Jin , Benjamin Weggenmann , Bernhard Schoelkopf , Mrinmaya Sachan

Nowadays, machine learning models and applications have become increasingly pervasive. With this rapid increase in the development and employment of machine learning models, a concern regarding privacy has risen. Thus, there is a legitimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Samah Baraheem , Zhongmei Yao

Concern about how to aggregate sensitive user data without compromising individual privacy is a major barrier to greater availability of data. The model of differential privacy has emerged as an accepted model to release sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Graham Cormode , Tejas Kulkarni , Divesh Srivastava

Recommender systems (RSs) output ranked lists of items, such as movies or restaurants, that users may find interesting, based on the user's past ratings and ratings from other users. RSs increasingly incorporate differential privacy (DP) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shiva Parsarad , Isabel Wagner

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used approach for mitigating privacy risks when training machine learning models on sensitive data. DP mechanisms add noise during training to limit the risk of information leakage. The scale of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Bogdan Kulynych , Juan Felipe Gomez , Georgios Kaissis , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Carmela Troncoso

We study privacy in a distributed learning framework, where clients collaboratively build a learning model iteratively through interactions with a server from whom we need privacy. Motivated by stochastic optimization and the federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Antonious M. Girgis , Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi

The protection of sensitive data becomes more vital, as data increases in value and potency. Furthermore, the pressure increases from regulators and society on model developers to make their Artificial Intelligence (AI) models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Florian van der Steen , Fré Vink , Heysem Kaya

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

The Shapley value has been proposed as a solution to many applications in machine learning, including for equitable valuation of data. Shapley values are computationally expensive and involve the entire dataset. The query for a point's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Lauren Watson , Rayna Andreeva , Hao-Tsung Yang , Rik Sarkar

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) promises significant computational advantages, but preserving training data privacy remains challenging. Classical approaches like differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) add noise to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Hoang M. Ngo , Nhat Hoang-Xuan , Quan Nguyen , Nguyen Do , Incheol Shin , My T. Thai

In this paper, an adjustment to the original differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) algorithm for deep learning models is proposed. As a matter of motivation, to date, almost no state-of-the-art machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Mehdi Amian

How can agents exchange information to learn while protecting privacy? Healthcare centers collaborating on clinical trials must balance knowledge sharing with safeguarding sensitive patient data. We address this challenge by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

This paper proposes a locally differentially private federated learning algorithm for strongly convex but possibly nonsmooth problems that protects the gradients of each worker against an honest but curious server. The proposed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jiaojiao Zhang , Dominik Fay , Mikael Johansson

The simplest and most widely applied method for guaranteeing differential privacy is to add instance-independent noise to a statistic of interest that is scaled to its global sensitivity. However, global sensitivity is a worst-case notion…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Mark Bun , Thomas Steinke

Training reliable deep learning models which avoid making overconfident but incorrect predictions is a longstanding challenge. This challenge is further exacerbated when learning has to be differentially private: protection provided to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Stephan Rabanser , Anvith Thudi , Abhradeep Thakurta , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Nicolas Papernot

We study the fundamental problem of the construction of optimal randomization in Differential Privacy. Depending on the clipping strategy or additional properties of the processing function, the corresponding sensitivity set theoretically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Hanshen Xiao , Jun Wan , Srinivas Devadas

Coordinate Descent (CD) methods have gained significant attention in machine learning due to their effectiveness in solving high-dimensional problems and their ability to decompose complex optimization tasks. However, classical CD methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Artavazd Maranjyan , Abdurakhmon Sadiev , Peter Richtárik

Differential privacy (DP) offers a robust framework for safeguarding individual data privacy. To utilize DP in training modern machine learning models, differentially private optimizers have been widely used in recent years. A popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xinwei Zhang , Zhiqi Bu , Borja Balle , Mingyi Hong , Meisam Razaviyayn , Vahab Mirrokni

Selecting the top-$k$ highest scoring items under differential privacy (DP) is a fundamental task with many applications. This work presents three new results. First, the exponential mechanism, permute-and-flip and report-noisy-max, as well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Michael Shekelyan , Grigorios Loukides