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Tensor-valued data, increasingly common in distributed big data applications like autonomous driving and smart healthcare, poses unique challenges for privacy protection due to its multidimensional structure and the risk of losing critical…

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in natural language understanding by capturing hidden semantics in vector space. This process enriches the value of text embeddings for various downstream tasks, thereby fostering the…

In this paper, we apply the long short-term memory (LSTM), an advanced recurrent neural network based machine learning (ML) technique, to the problem of transmitter selection (TS) for secrecy in an underlay small-cell cognitive radio…

Various studies that address the compressed sensing problem with Multiple Measurement Vectors (MMVs) have been recently carried. These studies assume the vectors of the different channels to be jointly sparse. In this paper, we relax this…

Serious privacy concerns arise with the use of patient data in rule-based clinical decision support systems (CDSS). The goal of a privacy-preserving CDSS is to learn a population ruleset from individual clients' local rulesets, while…

In compressed sensing (CS), sparse signals can be reconstructed from significantly fewer samples than required by the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. While non-sparse signals can be sparsely represented in appropriate transformation…

Differentially Private-SGD (DP-SGD) of Abadi et al. (2016) and its variations are the only known algorithms for private training of large scale neural networks. This algorithm requires computation of per-sample gradients norms which is…

In federated learning (FL) with top $r$ sparsification, millions of users collectively train a machine learning (ML) model locally, using their personal data by only communicating the most significant $r$ fraction of updates to reduce the…

Before establishing a communication link in a cellular network, the user terminal must activate a synchronization procedure called initial cell search in order to acquire specific information about the serving base station. To accomplish…

Based on binary inquiries, we developed an algorithm to estimate population quantiles under Local Differential Privacy (LDP). By self-normalizing, our algorithm provides asymptotically normal estimation with valid inference, resulting in…

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) and its variants have been proposed to ensure rigorous privacy for fine-tuning large-scale pre-trained language models. However, they rely heavily on the Gaussian mechanism, which…

Modal decomposition techniques, such as Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD), and Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA), have advanced time-frequency signal analysis since the early 21st century. These methods…

Ensuring the privacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) is becoming increasingly important. The most widely adopted technique to accomplish this is DP-SGD, which trains a model to guarantee Differential Privacy (DP). However, DP-SGD…

By integrating two powerful methods of density reduction and intrinsic dimensionality estimation, a new data-driven method, referred to as OLPP-MLE (orthogonal locality preserving projection-maximum likelihood estimation), is introduced for…

Large language models (LLMs) are commonly adapted to downstream tasks through fine-tuning, but fine-tuning data often contains sensitive information that may be leaked by the resulting model. Differential privacy (DP) offers formal…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance and received significant research interest. The enormous computational demands, however, hinder the local deployment on devices with limited resources. The current prevalent…

Passive surveillance systems (PSS) detect and track objects that emit electromagnetic signals from hundreds of kilometers away. These systems have a limited number of receivers and can only observe a fraction of the frequencies of interest…

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) adds noise to gradients in back-propagation, safeguarding training data from privacy leakage, particularly membership inference. It fails to cover (inference-time) threats like…

A common problem in private data analysis is the partition selection problem, where each user holds a set of partitions (e.g. keys in a GROUP BY operation) from a possibly unbounded set. The challenge here is in maximizing the set of…

In this article, we argue that models based on machine learning (ML) can be very effective in estimating the non-linear matter power spectrum ($P(k)$). We employ the prediction ability of the supervised ML algorithms to build an estimator…