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This paper presents a holistic approach to gradient leakage resilient distributed Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD). First, we analyze two types of strategies for privacy-enhanced federated learning: (i) gradient pruning with random…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu , Jingya Zhou , Ka-Ho Chow , Yanzhao Wu

The increased application of machine learning (ML) in sensitive domains requires protecting the training data through privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). DP requires to specify a uniform privacy level $\varepsilon$ that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Krishna Acharya , Franziska Boenisch , Rakshit Naidu , Juba Ziani

Industrial chemical plants often operate under strict data confidentiality constraints, making centralized data-driven process modeling difficult. Federated learning (FL) provides a promising solution by enabling collaborative model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Teetat Pipattaratonchai , Aueaphum Aueawatthanaphisut

Private machine learning introduces a trade-off between the privacy budget and training performance. Training convergence is substantially slower and extensive hyper parameter tuning is required. Consequently, efficient methods to conduct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ninad Jayesh Gandhi , Moparthy Venkata Subrahmanya Sri Harsha

Data privacy has become an increasingly important issue in Machine Learning (ML), where many approaches have been developed to tackle this challenge, e.g. cryptography (Homomorphic Encryption (HE), Differential Privacy (DP), etc.) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hanchi Ren , Jingjing Deng , Xianghua Xie

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

Federated Learning (FL) is an interesting strategy that enables the collaborative training of an AI model among different data owners without revealing their private datasets. Even so, FL has some privacy vulnerabilities that have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Xavier Martínez Luaña , Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo , Manuel Fernández Veiga

Diffusion models (DMs) are one of the most widely used generative models for producing high quality images. However, a flurry of recent papers points out that DMs are least private forms of image generators, by extracting a significant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-06 Michael F. Liu , Saiyue Lyu , Margarita Vinaroz , Mijung Park

Item Response Theory (IRT) models are widely used to estimate respondents' latent abilities and calibrate item difficulty. Traditional IRT estimation typically requires centralizing all raw responses, raising privacy and governance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Biying Zhou , Nanyu Luo , Feng Ji

In the era of big data, the need to expand the amount of data through data sharing to improve model performance has become increasingly compelling. As a result, effective collaborative learning models need to be developed with respect to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Huiwen Wu , Cen Chen , Li Wang

We present new mechanisms for \emph{label differential privacy}, a relaxation of differentially private machine learning that only protects the privacy of the labels in the training set. Our mechanisms cluster the examples in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Umar Syed , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Traditionally, the random noise is equally injected when training with different data instances in the field of differential privacy (DP). In this paper, we first give sharper excess risk bounds of DP stochastic gradient descent (SGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Yilin Kang , Jian Li , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

Differentially private (DP) decentralized Federated Learning (FL) allows local users to collaborate without sharing their data with a central server. However, accurately quantifying the privacy budget of private FL algorithms is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Buxin Su , Chendi Wang , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

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

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to statistically guarantee data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. While ensuring strong data privacy, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

Differentially private (DP) machine learning has recently become popular. The privacy loss of DP algorithms is commonly reported using $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-DP. In this paper, we propose a numerical accountant for evaluating the privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-28 Antti Koskela , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Honkela

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train models collectively while preserving data privacy. However, FL faces challenges in terms of communication cost and data heterogeneity. One-shot federated learning has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Matias Mendieta , Guangyu Sun , Chen Chen

We propose a simple heuristic privacy analysis of noisy clipped stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) in the setting where only the last iterate is released and the intermediate iterates remain hidden. Namely, our heuristic assumes a linear…

Differentially private federated learning (DP-FL) often suffers from slow convergence under tight privacy budgets because the noise required for privacy preservation degrades gradient quality. Although second-order optimization can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Sidhant Nair , Tanmay Sen , Mrinmay Sen , Sayantan Banerjee

Vertical federated learning (VFL) has recently emerged as an appealing distributed paradigm empowering multi-party collaboration for training high-quality models over vertically partitioned datasets. Gradient boosting has been popularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yifeng Zheng , Shuangqing Xu , Songlei Wang , Yansong Gao , Zhongyun Hua