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Differential privacy (DP) has been integrated into graph neural networks (GNNs) to protect sensitive structural information, e.g., edges, nodes, and associated features across various applications. A prominent approach is to perturb the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yu Zheng , Chenang Li , Zhou Li , Qingsong Wang

Data privacy is an important concern in machine learning, and is fundamentally at odds with the task of training useful learning models, which typically require the acquisition of large amounts of private user data. One possible way of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

We provide an end-to-end differentially private spectral algorithm for learning LDA, based on matrix/tensor decompositions, and establish theoretical guarantees on utility/consistency of the estimated model parameters. The spectral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-20 Christopher DeCarolis , Mukul Ram , Seyed A. Esmaeili , Yu-Xiang Wang , Furong Huang

The tension between data privacy and model utility has become the defining bottleneck for the practical deployment of large language models (LLMs) trained on sensitive corpora including healthcare. Differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Afshin Khadangi , Amir Sartipi , Igor Tchappi , Ramin Bahmani , Gilbert Fridgen

Recently, pre-trained language models (PLMs) have been increasingly adopted in spoken language understanding (SLU). However, automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems frequently produce inaccurate transcriptions, leading to noisy inputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Yeonjoon Jung , Jaeseong Lee , Seungtaek Choi , Dohyeon Lee , Minsoo Kim , Seung-won Hwang

We study gradient descent under linearly correlated noise. Our work is motivated by recent practical methods for optimization with differential privacy (DP), such as DP-FTRL, which achieve strong performance in settings where privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Anastasia Koloskova , Ryan McKenna , Zachary Charles , Keith Rush , Brendan McMahan

Applying Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) to training modern, large-scale neural networks such as transformer-based models is a challenging task, as the magnitude of noise added to the gradients at each iteration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Ryuichi Ito , Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yuya Sasaki , Makoto Onizuka

Adversarial attacks in machine learning traditionally focus on global perturbations to input data, yet the potential of localized adversarial noise remains underexplored. This study systematically evaluates localized adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Pavan Reddy , Aditya Sanjay Gujral

Regularization is essential for avoiding over-fitting to training data in network optimization, leading to better generalization of the trained networks. The label noise provides a strong implicit regularization by replacing the target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Kensuke Nakamura , Bong-Soo Sohn , Kyoung-Jae Won , Byung-Woo Hong

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy. However, in practical deployments, device heterogeneity, non-independent, and identically distributed (Non-IID) data often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jin Wang , Hui Ma , Fei Xing , Ming Yan

This paper focuses on the problem of Differentially Private Stochastic Optimization for (multi-layer) fully connected neural networks with a single output node. In the first part, we examine cases with no hidden nodes, specifically focusing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Hanpu Shen , Cheng-Long Wang , Zihang Xiang , Yiming Ying , Di Wang

This work focuses on optimizing the hybrid quantum noise model to improve the capacity of Gaussian quantum channels using Machine Learning (ML) generated clusters. The work specifically leverages Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-24 Mouli Chakraborty , Anshu Mukherjee , Ioannis Krikidis , Avishek Nag , Subhash Chandra

Gradient leakage attacks are considered one of the wickedest privacy threats in deep learning as attackers covertly spy gradient updates during iterative training without compromising model training quality, and yet secretly reconstruct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu

Safety guardrails in large language models (LLMs) are a critical component in preventing harmful outputs. Yet, their resilience under perturbation remains poorly understood. In this paper, we investigate the robustness of safety fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Prithviraj Singh Shahani , Kaveh Eskandari Miandoab , Matthias Scheutz

Protecting privacy in learning while maintaining the model performance has become increasingly critical in many applications that involve sensitive data. Private Gradient Descent (PGD) is a commonly used private learning framework, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Junyuan Hong , Zhangyang Wang , Jiayu Zhou

The Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) is a popular machine learning model for various tasks in recent years. In this paper, we study how to improve model accuracy of GBDT while preserving the strong guarantee of differential privacy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Qinbin Li , Zhaomin Wu , Zeyi Wen , Bingsheng He

Deep learning has made many remarkable achievements in many fields but suffers from noisy labels in datasets. The state-of-the-art learning with noisy label method Co-teaching and Co-teaching+ confronts the noisy label by mutual-information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Jiarun Liu , Daguang Jiang , Yukun Yang , Ruirui Li

Differentially private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has become integral to privacy-preserving machine learning, ensuring robust privacy guarantees in sensitive domains. Despite notable empirical advances leveraging features from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Meng Ding , Mingxi Lei , Shaopeng Fu , Shaowei Wang , Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

Mixed-precision quantization improves the budget--accuracy trade-off for large language models (LLMs) by allocating more bits to sensitive modules. However, automating this allocation at LLM scale faces a unique combination of constraints:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhangyang Yao , Haiyan Zhao , Haoyu Wang , Tianbo Huang , Lihua Zhang , Xu Han