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This paper studies how to learn variational autoencoders with a variety of divergences under differential privacy constraints. We often build a VAE with an appropriate prior distribution to describe the desired properties of the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Tsubasa Takahashi , Shun Takagi , Hajime Ono , Tatsuya Komatsu

User-level differentially private stochastic convex optimization (DP-SCO) has garnered significant attention due to the paramount importance of safeguarding user privacy in modern large-scale machine learning applications. Current methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Daogao Liu , Pasin Manurangsi

We analyse the privacy leakage of noisy stochastic gradient descent by modeling R\'enyi divergence dynamics with Langevin diffusions. Inspired by recent work on non-stochastic algorithms, we derive similar desirable properties in the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-08 Théo Ryffel , Francis Bach , David Pointcheval

Deep learning models for speech rely on large datasets, presenting computational challenges. Yet, performance hinges on training data size. Dataset Distillation (DD) aims to learn a smaller dataset without much performance degradation when…

Differentially private synthetic data is a promising alternative for sensitive data release. Many differentially private generative models have been proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, they all suffer from the low utility of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Chih-Hsun Lin , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Yang Cao , Chun-Ying Huang

Adaptive optimizers are the de facto standard in non-private training as they often enable faster convergence and improved performance. In contrast, differentially private (DP) training is still predominantly performed with DP-SGD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mihaela Hudişteanu , Nikita P. Kalinin , Edwige Cyffers

In this paper, we propose a novel Heterogeneous Gaussian Mechanism (HGM) to preserve differential privacy in deep neural networks, with provable robustness against adversarial examples. We first relax the constraint of the privacy budget in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-05 NhatHai Phan , Minh Vu , Yang Liu , Ruoming Jin , Dejing Dou , Xintao Wu , My T. Thai

This study addresses the issues of privacy protection and efficiency in instruction fine-tuning of large-scale language models by proposing a parameter-efficient method that integrates differential privacy noise allocation with gradient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yulin Huang , Yaxuan Luan , Jinxu Guo , Xiangchen Song , Yuchen Liu

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the standard algorithm for training machine learning models under differential privacy (DP). The most common DP-SGD privacy accountants rely on Poisson subsampling to ensure the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sebastian Rodriguez Beltran , Marlon Tobaben , Joonas Jälkö , Niki Loppi , Antti Honkela

Semi-supervised medical image segmentation aims to leverage minimal expert annotations, yet remains confronted by challenges in maintaining high-quality consistency learning. Excessive perturbations can degrade alignment and hinder precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Wenbo Xiao , Zhihao Xu , Guiping Liang , Yangjun Deng , Yi Xiao

In this paper, we consider solving the distributed optimization problem over a multi-agent network under the communication restricted setting. We study a compressed decentralized stochastic gradient method, termed ``compressed exact…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-01 Kun Huang , Shi Pu

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

Adaptive optimization methods have become the default solvers for many machine learning tasks. Unfortunately, the benefits of adaptivity may degrade when training with differential privacy, as the noise added to ensure privacy reduces the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Tian Li , Manzil Zaheer , Sashank J. Reddi , Virginia Smith

A central requirement for the acceptance of machine learning methods for human-centric tasks is that they should be fair, in the sense that they should work comparably well for individuals from different societal groups. A second, equally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Max Cairney-Leeming , Amartya Sanyal , Christoph H. Lampert

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) is a recent but already widely popular method that relies on an image diffusion model to control optimization problems using text prompts. In this paper, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the SDS loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Thiemo Alldieck , Nikos Kolotouros , Cristian Sminchisescu

With the fast development of deep learning, it has become common to learn big neural networks using massive training data. Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent (ASGD) is widely adopted to fulfill this task for its efficiency, which is,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Shuxin Zheng , Qi Meng , Taifeng Wang , Wei Chen , Nenghai Yu , Zhi-Ming Ma , Tie-Yan Liu

Through theoretical and experimental validation, unlike all existing adaptive methods like Adam which penalize frequently-changing parameters and are only applicable to sparse gradients, we propose the simplest SGD enhanced method,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Gongyue Zhang , Dinghuang Zhang , Shuwen Zhao , Donghan Liu , Carrie M. Toptan , Honghai Liu

Differential privacy is a widely accepted measure of privacy in the context of deep learning algorithms, and achieving it relies on a noisy training approach known as differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD). DP-SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Ce Feng , Nuo Xu , Wujie Wen , Parv Venkitasubramaniam , Caiwen Ding

In this paper, we present a simple yet effective provable method (named ABSGD) for addressing the data imbalance or label noise problem in deep learning. Our method is a simple modification to momentum SGD where we assign an individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Qi Qi , Yi Xu , Rong Jin , Wotao Yin , Tianbao Yang

Due to massive amounts of data distributed across multiple locations, distributed machine learning has attracted a lot of research interests. Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful method of designing distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Jiahao Ding , Xiaoqi Qin , Wenjun Xu , Yanmin Gong , Chi Zhang , Miao Pan