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The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard of privacy preservation due to its strong protection and sound mathematical foundation, which is widely adopted in different applications such as big data analysis, graph data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Honglu Jiang , Yifeng Gao , S M Sarwar , Luis GarzaPerez , Mahmudul Robin

We propose a scheme for auditing differentially private machine learning systems with a single training run. This exploits the parallelism of being able to add or remove multiple training examples independently. We analyze this using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Thomas Steinke , Milad Nasr , Matthew Jagielski

Label differential privacy (label-DP) is a popular framework for training private ML models on datasets with public features and sensitive private labels. Despite its rigorous privacy guarantee, it has been observed that in practice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ruihan Wu , Jin Peng Zhou , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Chuan Guo

We present new mechanisms for \emph{label differential privacy}, a relaxation of differentially private machine learning that only protects the privacy of the labels in the training set. Our mechanisms cluster the examples in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Umar Syed , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) has become an essential strategy for adapting them to specialized tasks; however, this process introduces significant privacy challenges, as sensitive training data may be inadvertently memorized and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Hao Du , Shang Liu , Yang Cao

In applications involving sensitive data, such as finance and healthcare, the necessity for preserving data privacy can be a significant barrier to machine learning model development. Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as one canonical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zachary Izzo , Jinsung Yoon , Sercan O. Arik , James Zou

Differential privacy (DP) offers a theoretical upper bound on the potential privacy leakage of analgorithm, while empirical auditing establishes a practical lower bound. Auditing techniques exist forDP training algorithms. However machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Karan Chadha , Matthew Jagielski , Nicolas Papernot , Christopher Choquette-Choo , Milad Nasr

Auditing Data Provenance (ADP), i.e., auditing if a certain piece of data has been used to train a machine learning model, is an important problem in data provenance. The feasibility of the task has been demonstrated by existing auditing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Xin Mu , Ming Pang , Feida Zhu

We present a rigorous methodology for auditing differentially private machine learning algorithms by adding multiple carefully designed examples called canaries. We take a first principles approach based on three key components. First, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Krishna Pillutla , Galen Andrew , Peter Kairouz , H. Brendan McMahan , Alina Oprea , Sewoong Oh

Training machine learning models with differential privacy (DP) limits an adversary's ability to infer sensitive information about the training data. It can be interpreted as a bound on adversary's capability to distinguish two adjacent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gauri Pradhan , Joonas Jälkö , Santiago Zanella-Béguelin , Antti Honkela

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

Approximate machine unlearning aims to remove the effect of specific data from trained models to ensure individuals' privacy. Existing methods focus on the removed records and assume the retained ones are unaffected. However, recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yuechun Gu , Jiajie He , Keke Chen

Label differential privacy (DP) is a framework that protects the privacy of labels in training datasets, while the feature vectors are public. Existing approaches protect the privacy of labels by flipping them randomly, and then train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Puning Zhao , Rongfei Fan , Huiwen Wu , Qingming Li , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

Differential privacy (DP) is a privacy-preserving paradigm that protects the training data when training deep learning models. Critically, the performance of models is determined by the training hyperparameters, especially those of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiqi Bu , Ruixuan Liu

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used approach for mitigating privacy risks when training machine learning models on sensitive data. DP mechanisms add noise during training to limit the risk of information leakage. The scale of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Bogdan Kulynych , Juan Felipe Gomez , Georgios Kaissis , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Carmela Troncoso

To protect privacy for data-collection-based services, local differential privacy (LDP) is widely adopted due to its rigorous theoretical bound on privacy loss. However, mistakes in complex theoretical analysis or subtle implementation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jingnan Xu , Leixia Wang , Xiaofeng Meng

While the existing literature on Differential Privacy (DP) auditing predominantly focuses on the centralized model (e.g., in auditing the DP-SGD algorithm), we advocate for extending this approach to audit Local DP (LDP). To achieve this,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees for machine learning applications. Much recent work has been focused on developing differentially private models, however there has been a gap in other stages of the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ashly Lau , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

Privacy-preserving machine learning aims to train models on private data without leaking sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is considered the gold standard framework for privacy-preserving training, as it provides formal…