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Federated learning (FL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning framework that enables multiple nodes to train models on their local data and periodically average weight updates to benefit from other nodes' training. Each node's goal is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Ethan Wilson , Kai Yue , Chau-Wai Wong , Huaiyu Dai

The integration of fairness and privacy in centralized data-driven applications is critical, especially as these systems increasingly influence sectors with significant societal impact. Current methods rarely address privacy, fairness, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Imesh Ekanayake , Elham Naghizade , Jeffrey Chan

This paper presents a client/server privacy-preserving network in the context of multicentric medical image analysis. Our approach is based on adversarial learning which encodes images to obfuscate the patient identity while preserving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Bach Ngoc Kim , Jose Dolz , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Christian Desrosiers

This work proposes a novel privacy-preserving neural network feature representation to suppress the sensitive information of a learned space while maintaining the utility of the data. The new international regulation for personal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Aythami Morales , Julian Fierrez , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Ruben Tolosana

In the big data era, more and more cloud-based data-driven applications are developed that leverage individual data to provide certain valuable services (the utilities). On the other hand, since the same set of individual data could be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang

Deep learning has been widely applied in many computer vision applications, with remarkable success. However, running deep learning models on mobile devices is generally challenging due to the limitation of computing resources. A popular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ang Li , Jiayi Guo , Huanrui Yang , Flora D. Salim , Yiran Chen

Differential privacy provides a strong form of privacy and allows preserving most of the original characteristics of the dataset. Utilizing these benefits requires one to design specific differentially private data analysis algorithms. In…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Matej Mihelčić , Pauli Miettinen

We consider the problem of obfuscating sensitive information while preserving utility, and we propose a machine learning approach inspired by the generative adversarial networks paradigm. The idea is to set up two nets: the generator, that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Marco Romanelli , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi

Privacy issues were raised in the process of training deep learning in medical, mobility, and other fields. To solve this problem, we present privacy-preserving distributed deep learning method that allow clients to learn a variety of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Jongwon Kim , Sungho Shin , Yeonguk Yu , Junseok Lee , Kyoobin Lee

Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By constructing random local aggregators, we propose a framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hanshen Xiao , Yu Ye , Srinivas Devadas

We present a data-driven framework called generative adversarial privacy (GAP). Inspired by recent advancements in generative adversarial networks (GANs), GAP allows the data holder to learn the privatization mechanism directly from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Chong Huang , Peter Kairouz , Xiao Chen , Lalitha Sankar , Ram Rajagopal

We study the problem of differentially private optimization with linear constraints when the right-hand-side of the constraints depends on private data. This type of problem appears in many applications, especially resource allocation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Andrés Muñoz Medina , Umar Syed , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Ellen Vitercik

The foundational capabilities of large language models are acquired during pretraining on internet-scale, highly heterogeneous data mixtures. In this work, we investigate an interesting geometric question regarding the converged state of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Huanran Chen , Huaqing Zhang , Xiao Li , Yinpeng Dong , Ke Shen , Jun Zhu

We investigate the application of large language models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4, to scenarios involving the tradeoff between privacy and utility in tabular data. Our approach entails prompting GPT-4 by transforming tabular data points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Bishwas Mandal , George Amariucai , Shuangqing Wei

This paper considers minimax optimization $\min_x \max_y f(x, y)$ in the challenging setting where $f$ can be both nonconvex in $x$ and nonconcave in $y$. Though such optimization problems arise in many machine learning paradigms including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Tanner Fiez , Chi Jin , Praneeth Netrapalli , Lillian J. Ratliff

Machine learning models have been shown to leak information violating the privacy of their training set. We focus on membership inference attacks on machine learning models which aim to determine whether a data point was used to train the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Shadi Rahimian , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Data poisoning attacks aim to manipulate the model produced by a learning algorithm by adversarially modifying the training set. We consider differential privacy as a defensive measure against this type of attack. We show that such learners…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Yuzhe Ma , Xiaojin Zhu , Justin Hsu

This paper considers the problem of privacy-preservation in decentralized optimization, in which $N$ agents cooperatively minimize a global objective function that is the sum of $N$ local objective functions. We assume that each local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Chunlei Zhang , Huan Gao , Yongqiang Wang

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

A lossy source coding problem with privacy constraint is studied in which two correlated discrete sources $X$ and $Y$ are compressed into a reconstruction $\hat{X}$ with some prescribed distortion $D$. In addition, a privacy constraint is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Farshid Mokhtarinezhad , Joerg Kliewer , Osvaldo Simeone