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Differential privacy (DP) provides strong protection for sensitive data, but often reduces model performance and fairness, especially for underrepresented groups. One major reason is gradient clipping in DP-SGD, which can disproportionately…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Dorsa Soleymani , Ali Dadsetan , Frank Rudzicz

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee preventing adversaries with access to a machine learning model from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Soham De , Leonard Berrada , Jamie Hayes , Samuel L. Smith , Borja Balle

In the domain of deep learning, the challenge of protecting sensitive data while maintaining model utility is significant. Traditional Differential Privacy (DP) techniques such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Tao Huang , Qingyu Huang , Xin Shi , Jiayang Meng , Guolong Zheng , Xu Yang , Xun Yi

In this paper, we design Top-DP, a novel solution to optimize the differential privacy protection of decentralized image classification systems. The key insight of our solution is to leverage the unique features of decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Guowen Xu , Han Yu , Tao Xiang , Yang Liu

Fall detection is a vital task in health monitoring, as it allows the system to trigger an alert and therefore enabling faster interventions when a person experiences a fall. Although most previous approaches rely on standard RGB video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Hejun Xiao , Kunyu Peng , Xiangsheng Huang , Alina Roitberg1 , Hao Li , Zhaohui Wang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into real-time machine learning applications, where safeguarding user privacy is paramount. Traditional differential privacy mechanisms often struggle to balance privacy and accuracy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jessica Smith , David Williams , Emily Brown

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) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to statistically guarantee data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. While ensuring strong data privacy, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

Differential privacy (DP) provides robust privacy guarantees for statistical inference, but this can lead to unreliable results and biases in downstream applications. While several noise-aware approaches have been proposed which integrate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Talal Alrawajfeh , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Honkela

Differential privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee that prevents adversaries with access to machine learning models from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially private stochastic gradient descent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jie Fu , Zhili Chen , XinPeng Ling

Differential privacy (DP) has arisen as the gold standard in protecting an individual's privacy in datasets by adding calibrated noise to each data sample. While the application to categorical data is straightforward, its usability in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Malte Tölle , Ullrich Köthe , Florian André , Benjamin Meder , Sandy Engelhardt

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…

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

In this paper, to effectively prevent information leakage, we propose a novel framework based on the concept of differential privacy (DP), in which artificial noises are added to the parameters at the clients side before aggregating,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Howard H. Yang , Farokhi Farhad , Shi Jin , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server, but it remains vulnerable to privacy leakage because shared model updates can expose sensitive information through inversion,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Fardin Jalil Piran , Zhiling Chen , Yang Zhang , Qianyu Zhou , Jiong Tang , Farhad Imani

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

Balancing differential privacy (DP) with recommendation accuracy is a key challenge in privacy-preserving recommender systems, since DP-noise degrades accuracy. We address this trade-off at both the data and model levels. At the data level,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Peter Müllner , Dominik Kowald , Markus Schedl , Elisabeth Lex

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

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

In Federated Learning (FL) with over-the-air aggregation, the quality of the signal received at the server critically depends on the receive scaling factors. While a larger scaling factor can reduce the effective noise power and improve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Faeze Moradi Kalarde , Ben Liang , Min Dong , Yahia A. Eldemerdash Ahmed , Ho Ting Cheng