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Differentially private (DP) machine learning has recently become popular. The privacy loss of DP algorithms is commonly reported using $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-DP. In this paper, we propose a numerical accountant for evaluating the privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-28 Antti Koskela , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Honkela

How can agents exchange information to learn while protecting privacy? Healthcare centers collaborating on clinical trials must balance knowledge sharing with safeguarding sensitive patient data. We address this challenge by using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

In this work, we give efficient algorithms for privately estimating a Gaussian distribution in both pure and approximate differential privacy (DP) models with optimal dependence on the dimension in the sample complexity. In the pure DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Daniel Alabi , Pravesh K. Kothari , Pranay Tankala , Prayaag Venkat , Fred Zhang

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

We propose the notion of empirical privacy variance and study it in the context of differentially private fine-tuning of language models. Specifically, we show that models calibrated to the same $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-DP guarantee using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yuzheng Hu , Fan Wu , Ruicheng Xian , Yuhang Liu , Lydia Zakynthinou , Pritish Kamath , Chiyuan Zhang , David Forsyth

In recent years, federated learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent paradigm in distributed machine learning. Despite the partial safeguarding of agents' information within FL systems, a malicious adversary can potentially infer sensitive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Zhenwei Huang , Wen Huang , Pratik Jawanpuria , Bamdev Mishra

Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about the privacy of sensitive data. In response to these concerns, differential privacy has emerged as a rigorous framework for privacy protection, gaining widespread recognition in both…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Ilmun Kim , Antonin Schrab

The randomized power method has gained significant interest due to its simplicity and efficient handling of large-scale spectral analysis and recommendation tasks. However, its application to large datasets containing personal information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Julien Nicolas , César Sabater , Mohamed Maouche , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Mark Coates

As the use of differential privacy (DP) becomes widespread, the development of effective tools for reasoning about the privacy guarantee becomes increasingly critical. In pursuit of this goal, we demonstrate novel relationships between DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zeki Kazan , Sagar Sharma , Wanrong Zhang , Bo Jiang , Qiang Yan

We design a debiased parametric bootstrap framework for statistical inference from differentially private data. Existing usage of the parametric bootstrap on privatized data ignored or avoided handling possible biases introduced by the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-10 Zhanyu Wang , Arin Chang , Jordan Awan

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard for protecting sensitive data, providing strong guarantees that published statistics or models reveal limited information about any individual. However, privacy noise and restricted…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mariia Vologdin , Yuchao Tao , Amir Gilad

Generalized linear models (GLMs) such as logistic regression are among the most widely used arms in data analyst's repertoire and often used on sensitive datasets. A large body of prior works that investigate GLMs under differential privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Tejas Kulkarni , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Koskela , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

Bayesian neural network (BNN) allows for uncertainty quantification in prediction, offering an advantage over regular neural networks that has not been explored in the differential privacy (DP) framework. We fill this important gap by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Qiyiwen Zhang , Zhiqi Bu , Kan Chen , Qi Long

There has been an explosion of research on differential privacy (DP) and its various applications in recent years, ranging from novel variants and accounting techniques in differential privacy to the thriving field of differentially private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Saswat Das , Subhankar Mishra

We propose a method for the release of differentially private synthetic datasets. In many contexts, data contain sensitive values which cannot be released in their original form in order to protect individuals' privacy. Synthetic data is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Joshua Snoke , Aleksandra Slavković

In this paper, we present a framework based on differential privacy (DP) for querying electric power measurements to detect system anomalies or bad data. Our DP approach conceals consumption and system matrix data, while simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Nikhil Ravi , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert , Parth Pradhan

Developing machine learning methods that are privacy preserving is today a central topic of research, with huge practical impacts. Among the numerous ways to address privacy-preserving learning, we here take the perspective of computing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Alain Rakotomamonjy , Liva Ralaivola

Machine learning with formal privacy-preserving techniques like Differential Privacy (DP) allows one to derive valuable insights from sensitive medical imaging data while promising to protect patient privacy, but it usually comes at a sharp…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Florian A. Hölzl , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Patient data is widely used to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects and thus understand the effectiveness and safety of drugs. Yet, patient data includes highly sensitive information that must be kept private. In this work, we aim to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Maresa Schröder , Valentyn Melnychuk , Stefan Feuerriegel

We propose a novel Decentralized Differentially Private Power Method (D-DP-PM) for performing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in networked multi-agent settings. Unlike conventional decentralized PCA approaches where each agent accesses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Andrew Campbell , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert