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We propose a new framework of synthesizing data using deep generative models in a differentially private manner. Within our framework, sensitive data are sanitized with rigorous privacy guarantees in a one-shot fashion, such that training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Michihiko Ueno

Federated Learning allows distributed entities to train a common model collaboratively without sharing their own data. Although it prevents data collection and aggregation by exchanging only parameter updates, it remains vulnerable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Raouf Kerkouche , Gergely Ács , Claude Castelluccia , Pierre Genevès

Federated learning, as a distributed architecture, shows great promise for applications in Cyber-Physical-Social Systems (CPSS). In order to mitigate the privacy risks inherent in CPSS, the integration of differential privacy with federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jiayi Wan , Xiang Zhu , Fanzhen Liu , Wei Fan , Xiaolong Xu

We revisit the problem of generating synthetic data under differential privacy. To address the core limitations of marginal-based methods, we propose the Private Adaptive Generative Adversarial Network with Bayes Network Structure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-12 Ke Jia , Yuheng Ma , Yang Li , Feifei Wang

Machine learning models used for distributed architectures consisting of servers and clients require large amounts of data to achieve high accuracy. Data obtained from clients are collected on a central server for model training. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Ozer Ozturk , Busra Buyuktanir , Gozde Karatas Baydogmus , Kazim Yildiz

We introduce DP-FinDiff, a differentially private diffusion framework for synthesizing mixed-type tabular data. DP-FinDiff employs embedding-based representations for categorical features, reducing encoding overhead and scaling to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Privacy-preserving computing is crucial for multi-center machine learning in many applications such as healthcare and finance. In this paper a Multi-center Privacy Computing framework with Predictions Aggregation (MPCPA) based on denoising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Guibo Luo , Hanwen Zhang , Xiuling Wang , Mingzhi Chen , Yuesheng Zhu

How to synthesize a dataset while achieving differential privacy for AI model training is a meaningful but challenging problem. To address this problem, state-of-the-art methods first select original private dataset's multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mingxuan Jia , Wen Huang , Weixin Zhao , Xingyi Wang , Jian Peng , Zhishuo Zhang

Personalized privacy becomes critical in deep learning for Trustworthy AI. While Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used in deep learning methods supporting privacy, it provides the same level of privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Geon Heo , Junseok Seo , Steven Euijong Whang

Differential privacy has become a de facto standard for releasing data in a privacy-preserving way. Creating a differentially private algorithm is a process that often starts with a noise-free (non-private) algorithm. The designer then…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yuxin Wang , Zeyu Ding , Yingtai Xiao , Daniel Kifer , Danfeng Zhang

Federated learning is a distributed learning technique that allows training a global model with the participation of different data owners without the need to share raw data. This architecture is orchestrated by a central server that…

In differential privacy, random noise is introduced to privatize summary statistics of a sensitive dataset before releasing them. The noise level determines the privacy loss, which quantifies how easily an adversary can detect a target…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Youngjoo Yun , Rishabh Dudeja

Despite several works that succeed in generating synthetic data with differential privacy (DP) guarantees, they are inadequate for generating high-quality synthetic data when the input data has missing values. In this work, we formalize the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shubhankar Mohapatra , Jianqiao Zong , Florian Kerschbaum , Xi He

Organizations are increasingly relying on data to support decisions. When data contains private and sensitive information, the data owner often desires to publish a synthetic database instance that is similarly useful as the true data,…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chang Ge , Shubhankar Mohapatra , Xi He , Ihab F. Ilyas

While preserving the privacy of federated learning (FL), differential privacy (DP) inevitably degrades the utility (i.e., accuracy) of FL due to model perturbations caused by DP noise added to model updates. Existing studies have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Xin Yuan , Wei Ni , Ming Ding , Kang Wei , Jun Li , H. Vincent Poor

The widespread use of big data across sectors has raised major privacy concerns, especially when sensitive information is shared or analyzed. Regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA impose strict controls on data handling, making it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in domains such as healthcare or social science often involves sensitive data where protecting privacy is important. We introduce a general meta-algorithm for estimating conditional average…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-23 Fengshi Niu , Harsha Nori , Brian Quistorff , Rich Caruana , Donald Ngwe , Aadharsh Kannan

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely-accepted and widely-applied notion of privacy based on worst-case analysis. Often, DP classifies most mechanisms without additive noise as non-private (Dwork et al., 2014). Thus, additive noises are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ao Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Lirong Xia

Dataset Distillation (DD) is a powerful technique for reducing large datasets into compact, representative synthetic datasets, accelerating Machine Learning training. However, traditional DD methods operate in a centralized manner, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Marco Arazzi , Mert Cihangiroglu , Serena Nicolazzo , Antonino Nocera

Parameter estimation in statistics and system identification relies on data that may contain sensitive information. To protect this sensitive information, the notion of \emph{differential privacy} (DP) has been proposed, which enforces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Braghadeesh Lakshminarayanan , Cristian R. Rojas