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Recent developments have underscored the critical role of \textit{differential privacy} (DP) in safeguarding individual data for training machine learning models. However, integrating DP oftentimes incurs significant model performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Zihao Wang , Rui Zhu , Dongruo Zhou , Zhikun Zhang , John Mitchell , Haixu Tang , XiaoFeng Wang

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used notion for reasoning about privacy when publishing aggregate data. In this paper, we observe that certain DP mechanisms are amenable to a posteriori privacy analysis that exploits the fact that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Valentin Hartmann , Vincent Bindschaedler , Alexander Bentkamp , Robert West

The recent developments of Diffusion Models (DMs) enable generation of astonishingly high-quality synthetic samples. Recent work showed that the synthetic samples generated by the diffusion model, which is pre-trained on public data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jing Liu , Andrew Lowy , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Ye Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly transformed natural language understanding and generation, but they raise privacy concerns due to potential exposure of sensitive information. Studies have highlighted the risk of information…

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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

Machine learning models are known to memorize private data to reduce their training loss, which can be inadvertently exploited by privacy attacks such as model inversion and membership inference. To protect against these attacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Jie Fu , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Zhili Chen , Lulu Wang , Kuncan Wang , Xun Ran

Differential privacy (DP) is a gold-standard concept of measuring and guaranteeing privacy in data analysis. It is well-known that the cost of adding DP to deep learning model is its accuracy. However, it remains unclear how it affects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Nurislam Tursynbek , Aleksandr Petiushko , Ivan Oseledets

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Differential privacy (DP) is a prominent method for protecting information about individuals during data analysis. Training neural networks with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) influences the model's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lea Demelius , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal privacy framework that enables training machine learning (ML) models while protecting individuals' data. As pointed out by prior work, ML models are part of larger systems, which can lead to so-called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Marlon Tobaben , Talal Alrawajfeh , Marcus Klasson , Mikko Heikkilä , Arno Solin , Antti Honkela

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data has become the de facto standard for releasing sensitive data. However, many DP generative models suffer from the low utility of synthetic data, especially for high-resolution images. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Chia-Yi Hsu , Jia-You Chen , Yu-Lin Tsai , Chih-Hsun Lin , Pin-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Chun-Ying Huang

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

Training large neural networks with meaningful/usable differential privacy security guarantees is a demanding challenge. In this paper, we tackle this problem by revisiting the two key operations in Differentially Private Stochastic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Hanshen Xiao , Jun Wan , Srinivas Devadas

Federated learning (FL) as one of the novel branches of distributed machine learning (ML), develops global models through a private procedure without direct access to local datasets. However, access to model updates (e.g. gradient updates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Mahtab Talaei , Iman Izadi

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DPSGD) is widely used to train deep neural networks with formal privacy guarantees. However, the addition of differential privacy (DP) often degrades model accuracy by introducing both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Xincheng Xu , Thilina Ranbaduge , Qing Wang , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , David Smith

Many high-stakes applications require machine learning models that protect user privacy and provide well-calibrated, accurate predictions. While Differential Privacy (DP) is the gold standard for protecting user privacy, standard DP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ossi Räisä , Stratis Markou , Matthew Ashman , Wessel P. Bruinsma , Marlon Tobaben , Antti Honkela , Richard E. Turner

Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as the gold standard for protecting user data in recommender systems, but existing privacy-preserving mechanisms face a fundamental challenge: the privacy-utility tradeoff inevitably degrades…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Sarwan Ali

Federated learning has emerged as an attractive approach to protect data privacy by eliminating the need for sharing clients' data while reducing communication costs compared with centralized machine learning algorithms. However, recent…

In this paper we measure the effectiveness of $\epsilon$-Differential Privacy (DP) when applied to medical imaging. We compare two robust differential privacy mechanisms: Local-DP and DP-SGD and benchmark their performance when analyzing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Sahib Singh , Harshvardhan Sikka , Sasikanth Kotti , Andrew Trask

Differentially private SGD (DPSGD) enables privacy-preserving training of language models, but often reduces utility, diversity, and linguistic quality. We introduce DPRefine, a three-phase method that initializes a model using data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ivoline C. Ngong , Joseph P. Near , Niloofar Mireshghallah