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We address differential privacy for fully distributed optimization subject to a shared inequality constraint. By co-designing the distributed optimization mechanism and the differential-privacy noise injection mechanism, we propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

We consider the problem of communication efficient distributed optimization where multiple nodes exchange important algorithm information in every iteration to solve large problems. In particular, we focus on the stochastic variance-reduced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Hossein S. Ghadikolaei , Sindri Magnusson

We study locally differentially private algorithms for reinforcement learning to obtain a robust policy that performs well across distributed private environments. Our algorithm protects the information of local agents' models from being…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Hajime Ono , Tsubasa Takahashi

With rise of machine learning (ML) and the proliferation of smart mobile devices, recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in performing ML in wireless edge networks. In this paper, we consider the problem of jointly improving data…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Xin Zhang , Minghong Fang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu

We consider the problem of PAC-learning from distributed data and analyze fundamental communication complexity questions involved. We provide general upper and lower bounds on the amount of communication needed to learn well, showing that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-28 Maria-Florina Balcan , Avrim Blum , Shai Fine , Yishay Mansour

We demonstrate that it is possible to train large recurrent language models with user-level differential privacy guarantees with only a negligible cost in predictive accuracy. Our work builds on recent advances in the training of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-27 H. Brendan McMahan , Daniel Ramage , Kunal Talwar , Li Zhang

A central issue in machine learning is how to train models on sensitive user data. Industry has widely adopted a simple algorithm: Stochastic Gradient Descent with noise (a.k.a. Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics). However, foundational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jason M. Altschuler , Kunal Talwar

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

In this paper, we consider the problem of preserving privacy in the online learning setting. We study the problem in the online convex programming (OCP) framework---a popular online learning setting with several interesting theoretical and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Prateek Jain , Pravesh Kothari , Abhradeep Thakurta

This study addresses the issues of privacy protection and efficiency in instruction fine-tuning of large-scale language models by proposing a parameter-efficient method that integrates differential privacy noise allocation with gradient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yulin Huang , Yaxuan Luan , Jinxu Guo , Xiangchen Song , Yuchen Liu

Ensuring differential privacy of models learned from sensitive user data is an important goal that has been studied extensively in recent years. It is now known that for some basic learning problems, especially those involving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Cynthia Dwork , Vitaly Feldman

In distributed optimization and iterative consensus literature, a standard problem is for $N$ agents to minimize a function $f$ over a subset of Euclidean space, where the cost function is expressed as a sum $\sum f_i$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Nitin Vaidya

The performance of federated learning systems is bottlenecked by communication costs and training variance. The communication overhead problem is usually addressed by three communication-reduction techniques, namely, model compression,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Nima Mohammadi , Jianan Bai , Qiang Fan , Yifei Song , Yang Yi , Lingjia Liu

Machine learning models are increasingly used in high-stakes decision-making systems. In such applications, a major concern is that these models sometimes discriminate against certain demographic groups such as individuals with certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Andrew Lowy , Devansh Gupta , Meisam Razaviyayn

In federated learning, communication cost is often a critical bottleneck to scale up distributed optimization algorithms to collaboratively learn a model from millions of devices with potentially unreliable or limited communication and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Farzin Haddadpour , Mohammad Mahdi Kamani , Aryan Mokhtari , Mehrdad Mahdavi

We investigate the distributed online nonconvex optimization problem with differential privacy over time-varying networks. Each node minimizes the sum of several nonconvex functions while preserving the node's differential privacy. We…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Yingjie Zhou , Tao Li

While machine learning has proven to be a powerful data-driven solution to many real-life problems, its use in sensitive domains has been limited due to privacy concerns. A popular approach known as **differential privacy** offers provable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-28 Yu-Xiang Wang , Jing Lei , Stephen E. Fienberg

This paper addresses the problem of differentially private distributed optimization under limited communication, where each agent aims to keep their cost function private while minimizing the sum of all agents' cost functions. In response,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Antai Xie , Xinlei Yi , Xiaofan Wang , Ming Cao , Xiaoqiang Ren

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