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We propose a novel Decentralized Differentially Private Power Method (D-DP-PM) for performing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in networked multi-agent settings. Unlike conventional decentralized PCA approaches where each agent accesses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Andrew Campbell , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert

The iterative nature of the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm presents a challenge for privacy-preserving estimation, as each iteration increases the amount of noise needed. We propose a practical private EM algorithm that overcomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Mijung Park , Jimmy Foulds , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Max Welling

Fine-tuning large language models on downstream tasks is crucial for realizing their cross-domain potential but often relies on sensitive data, raising privacy concerns. Differential privacy (DP) offers rigorous privacy guarantees and has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Lele Zheng , Xiang Wang , Tao Zhang , Yang Cao , Ke Cheng , Yulong Shen

We study adaptive methods for differentially private convex optimization, proposing and analyzing differentially private variants of a Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) algorithm with adaptive stepsizes, as well as the AdaGrad algorithm. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Hilal Asi , John Duchi , Alireza Fallah , Omid Javidbakht , Kunal Talwar

This paper presents a novel distributed formulation of the min-max optimization problem. Such a formulation enables enhanced flexibility among agents when optimizing their maximization variables. To address the problem, we propose two…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Runze You , Kun Huang , Shi Pu

Privacy-preserving distributed machine learning becomes increasingly important due to the recent rapid growth of data. This paper focuses on a class of regularized empirical risk minimization (ERM) machine learning problems, and develops…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

Distributed machine learning is an approach allowing different parties to learn a model over all data sets without disclosing their own data. In this paper, we propose a weighted distributed differential privacy (WD-DP) empirical risk…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Yilin Kang , Yong Liu , Weiping Wang

In this paper, we propose a differentially private decentralized learning method (termed PrivSGP-VR) which employs stochastic gradient push with variance reduction and guarantees $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy (DP) for each node.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Zehan Zhu , Yan Huang , Xin Wang , Jinming Xu

As the use of large embedding models in recommendation systems and language applications increases, concerns over user data privacy have also risen. DP-SGD, a training algorithm that combines differential privacy with stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Badih Ghazi , Yangsibo Huang , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

Finding efficient, easily implementable differentially private (DP) algorithms that offer strong excess risk bounds is an important problem in modern machine learning. To date, most work has focused on private empirical risk minimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Andrew Lowy , Meisam Razaviyayn

Machine learning models can be trained with formal privacy guarantees via differentially private optimizers such as DP-SGD. In this work, we focus on a threat model where the adversary has access only to the final model, with no visibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Tudor Cebere , Aurélien Bellet , Nicolas Papernot

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms face the challenge of providing accurate results while protecting their inputs: the privacy-utility trade-off. A simple but powerful technique for DP adds noise to sensitivity-bounded query outputs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 David M. Sommer , Lukas Abfalterer , Sheila Zingg , Esfandiar Mohammadi

Large-scale multi-agent cooperative control problems have materially enjoyed the scalability, adaptivity, and flexibility of decentralized optimization. However, due to the mandatory iterative communications between the agents and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Xiang Huo , Mingxi Liu

We study differentially private (DP) machine learning algorithms as instances of noisy fixed-point iterations, in order to derive privacy and utility results from this well-studied framework. We show that this new perspective recovers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Edwige Cyffers , Aurélien Bellet , Debabrota Basu

In decentralized optimization, multiple nodes in a network collaborate to minimize the sum of their local loss functions. The information exchange between nodes required for this task, is often limited by network connectivity. We consider a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-07 Rajarshi Saha , Stefano Rini , Milind Rao , Andrea Goldsmith

In this paper we tackle the challenge of making the stochastic coordinate descent algorithm differentially private. Compared to the classical gradient descent algorithm where updates operate on a single model vector and controlled noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Georgios Damaskinos , Celestine Mendler-Dünner , Rachid Guerraoui , Nikolaos Papandreou , Thomas Parnell

Differential Privacy (DP) is a widely adopted technique, valued for its effectiveness in protecting the privacy of task-specific datasets, making it a critical tool for large language models. However, its effectiveness in Multimodal Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qianshan Wei , Jiaqi Li , Zihan You , Yi Zhan , Kecen Li , Jialin Wu , Xinfeng Li Hengjun Liu , Yi Yu , Bin Cao , Yiwen Xu , Yang Liu , Guilin Qi

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used to protect training data in machine learning. Its privacy guarantee is commonly analyzed through a security game in which an adversary infers whether a target record…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Wenhao Wang , Shujie Cui , Hui Cui , Xingliang Yuan

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a widely adopted technique for privacy-preserving deep learning. A critical challenge in DP-SGD is selecting the optimal clipping threshold C, which involves balancing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Chengkun Wei , Weixian Li , Chen Gong , Wenzhi Chen

In this paper, we consider efficient differentially private empirical risk minimization from the viewpoint of optimization algorithms. For strongly convex and smooth objectives, we prove that gradient descent with output perturbation not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Jiaqi Zhang , Kai Zheng , Wenlong Mou , Liwei Wang