This paper improves privacy accounting in decentralized FL using f-Differential Privacy.
problem Challenges in accurately quantifying privacy budget in decentralized FL.
method Develops two new f-DP-based accounting methods for decentralized FL.
result Yields tighter (ε,δ) bounds and improved utility compared to existing methods.
Framework purifies approximate differential privacy to pure differential privacy.
problem Achieving pure differential privacy from approximate differential privacy.
method Randomized post-processing with calibrated noise to eliminate δ parameter.
result First statistically and computationally efficient reduction from approximate DP to pure DP.
This paper improves privacy bounds for DP algorithms using f-DP.
problem Difficulty in analyzing randomness in DP algorithms due to mixture distributions.
method Derives a closed-form expression for trade-off functions and analyzes f-DP. result Enhances privacy of DP-GD with random initialization and shuffling models.
This paper benchmarks privacy-preserving machine learning on medical images.
problem Ensuring privacy in medical image analysis while maintaining model accuracy.
method Comparing Local-DP and DP-SGD for differential privacy in medical imagery.
result Theoretical privacy guarantees do not fully align with real-world performance.
Paper simplifies DP composition for adaptive privacy budgets, enabling better privacy and accuracy in deep learning.
problem Tension between efficiency and flexibility in DP composition theorems.
method Rényi Differential Privacy (RDP) for adaptive privacy budgets, proving simpler composition theorem with smaller constants.
result Practical DP composition for adaptive privacy budgets, enabling better privacy and accuracy in deep learning.
Gaussian DP improves reporting of ML algorithms' differential privacy guarantees.
problem Incomplete and misleading DP guarantees for ML algorithms.
method Using non-asymptotic Gaussian Differential Privacy (GDP) to provide accurate bounds on privacy profiles of ML algorithms.
result GDP captures the entire privacy profile of DP-SGD and related algorithms with virtually no error.
New divergences help audit DP in high dimensions.
problem Challenges in auditing DP in high-dimensional data.
method Propose kernel Rényi divergence and its regularized version for auditing.
result Regularized kernel Rényi divergence can be estimated from samples in high dimensions.
DP-REC combines privacy and communication efficiency in federated learning.
problem Combining privacy and communication efficiency in federated learning.
method DP-REC uses Relative Entropy Coding (REC) for compression and a minor modification for differential privacy.
result DP-REC reduces communication costs while maintaining privacy comparable to state-of-the-art methods.
DP-BNNs improve accuracy, privacy, and reliability in neural networks.
problem Balancing privacy and accuracy in neural networks.
method Proposed three DP-BNNs: DP-SGLD, DP-BBP, and DP-MC Dropout.
result DP-SGLD achieves high accuracy under strong privacy guarantees.
Conformal-DP improves differential privacy on manifold data by calibrating perturbations based on local densities.
problem Lack of density-awareness in existing differential privacy mechanisms for manifold data leads to biased and suboptimal privacy-utility trade-offs.
method Proposes Conformal-DP, a density-aware differential privacy mechanism using conformal transformations to calibrate perturbations based on local densities.
result Demonstrates improved privacy-utility trade-off in heterogeneous data distribution settings compared to state-of-the-art mechanisms.
Three DP variants linked, improving SGD privacy bounds.
problem Relating different DP variants for tighter privacy bounds.
method Developed machinery to relate approximate DP to RDP and hypothesis test DP.
result Improved privacy guarantees for noisy SGD.
DP-SGD provides privacy guarantees for all data points, but we propose output-specific DP to better account for individual examples.
problem Accounting for individual privacy guarantees in DP-SGD.
method Output-specific (ε,δ)-DP and an efficient algorithm to investigate individual privacy across datasets. result Most examples enjoy stronger privacy guarantees than the worst-case bound, and there is a correlation between training loss and privacy parameter.
Differential privacy has seen remarkable success as a rigorous and practical formalization of data privacy in the past decade. This privacy definition and its divergence based relaxations, however, have several acknowledged weaknesses, either in handling composition of private algorithms or in analyzing important primi…
Framework evaluates privacy cost of non-private pre-processing in DP pipelines.
problem Privacy cost of non-private data-dependent pre-processing in DP machine learning pipelines.
method Establishes upper bounds on overall privacy guarantees using Smooth DP and bounded sensitivity.
result Explicit overall privacy guarantees for various pre-processing algorithms.
The paper introduces DP algorithms using random projections and sign random projections for improved privacy in machine learning.
problem Improving differential privacy in machine learning applications.
method Developed algorithms based on random projections and sign random projections, focusing on individual differential privacy (iDP) and standard differential privacy (DP).
result DP-SignOPORP and iDP-SignRP achieve superior performance in differential privacy, especially for small epsilon values.
DP-CGAN generates private synthetic data and labels.
problem Preserving privacy in synthetic data generation.
method Differentially private conditional GAN (DP-CGAN) with clipping and perturbation.
result DP-CGAN generates visually and empirically promising results on MNIST with low privacy cost.
This guide simplifies applying differential privacy to machine learning models.
problem Limited practical guidance for achieving good privacy-utility-computations in ML models.
method Comprehensive self-contained guide covering theory and practical implementation.
result Achieves best possible DP ML model with rigorous privacy guarantees.
New method compares DP mechanisms beyond (ε,δ) pairs.
problem Current DP mechanism comparisons overlook substantial differences.
method Introduces Δ-divergence for robust comparison. result Demonstrates gaps in current DP-SGD practices.
DP-FedTabDiff generates private synthetic tabular data using diffusion models and differential privacy.
problem Privacy-preserving synthetic data generation for tabular data in regulated domains.
method Combines Differential Privacy, Federated Learning, and Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models.
result Achieves significant privacy improvements without compromising data quality.
DP-SPRT improves privacy in sequential tests with near-optimal error rates.
problem Privacy constraints in sequential probability ratio tests.
method A wrapper for SPRT that uses a private mechanism to determine when to stop based on predefined intervals.
result DP-SPRT achieves near-optimal error rates and privacy guarantees.
Paper relaxes differential privacy for correlated features, improving privacy-utility trade-off.
problem Standard differential privacy ignores feature correlation, leading to suboptimal privacy-utility balance.
method Introduces CorrDP framework that accounts for feature correlation, using total variation distance for quantification.
result CorrDP algorithms outperform standard DP in synthetic and real-world datasets with insensitive features.
Paper studies user-level differential privacy in federated linear contextual bandits.
problem Federated learning with user-level differential privacy constraints.
method Unified federated bandits framework, CDP and LDP definitions, ROBIN algorithm.
result Near-optimal learning under user-level CDP with privacy budget and number of clients.
Private statistics estimation faces a bias, accuracy, and privacy trilemma.
problem Balancing privacy, accuracy, and bias in statistical estimation.
method Use differential privacy (DP) for private statistics, but clip samples to control sensitivity and add noise for privacy, introducing bias.
result No algorithm can simultaneously have low bias, low error, and low privacy loss for arbitrary distributions.
DOPPLER optimizes DP training with low-pass filtering, improving model accuracy.
problem Privacy concerns in deep learning models and performance degradation of DP optimizers.
method Developed DOPPLER, a low-pass filter for DP optimizers, to reduce privacy noise and enhance model quality.
result DOPPLER optimizers outperform non-DOPPLER counterparts by 3%-10% in test accuracy.
A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of Gaussian processes (GPs). We propose a method using GPs to provide differentially priva…
Paper improves differential privacy analysis for machine learning.
problem Quantifying privacy leakage in noisy gradient descent.
method Shifted interpolation in f-differential privacy. result First exact privacy analysis for strongly convex optimization.
Constructs models to meet any DP requirement without retraining.
problem Evolving privacy requirements at inference time.
method Two post-processing techniques: random selection and linear combination.
result Final private models satisfying any target privacy parameter.
New DP-CD method outperforms DP-SGD in solving composite DP-ERM problems.
problem Privacy-preserving machine learning with differential privacy.
method Differentially Private proximal Coordinate Descent (DP-CD) for composite Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM).
result DP-CD outperforms DP-SGD due to larger step sizes and better gradient exploitation.
New auditors assess f-DP privacy with adaptive sampling, avoiding large sample sizes.
problem Empirical auditing of f-DP privacy with adaptive sampling. method Shift focus to f-DP, develop adaptive auditors for whitebox and blackbox settings. result Adaptive auditors detect f-DP violations across the privacy spectrum with statistical guarantees. Paper bridges statistical inference for DP-SGD, a privacy-preserving machine learning method.
problem Asymptotic statistical inference for Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD).
method Established asymptotic properties of SGD under randomized subsampling, extended to DP-SGD, proposed methods for constructing valid confidence intervals.
result Valid confidence intervals for DP-SGD output achieve nominal coverage rates while maintaining privacy.
Expands differential privacy mechanisms to include the Generalized Gaussian mechanism for improved private machine learning.
problem Improving privacy in machine learning algorithms while maintaining utility.
method Introduces and analyzes the Generalized Gaussian (GG) mechanism for differential privacy.
result The GG mechanism provides better performance than the Laplace and Gaussian mechanisms across various values of β.
A new federated learning framework with sparsification and adaptive optimization for privacy and efficiency.
problem Lack of sufficient privacy protection in federated learning.
method Integrates random sparsification with gradient perturbation and acceleration techniques to enhance privacy and efficiency.
result Outperforms previous differentially-private federated learning approaches in privacy and efficiency.
Differentially-private FNAS protects privacy while collaboratively searching for neural architectures.
problem Collaborative neural architecture search with privacy concerns.
method Federated Neural Architecture Search (FNAS) with differential privacy (DP-FNAS).
result DP-FNAS can search for highly-performant neural architectures while protecting individual parties' privacy.
DPDMs use DP-SGD to generate private synthetic data.
problem Generating private synthetic data from sensitive datasets.
method Introduced DP-SGD for DMs, investigated DM parameterization and sampling, proposed noise multiplicity.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in image generation benchmarks.
Recent developments in differentially private (DP) machine learning and DP Bayesian learning have enabled learning under strong privacy guarantees for the training data subjects. In this paper, we further extend the applicability of DP Bayesian learning by presenting the first general DP Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)…
The paper addresses privacy-preserving BAI in clinical trials and user studies.
problem Privacy-preserving Best Arm Identification in adaptive clinical trials and user studies.
method The paper derives lower bounds on sample complexity for BAI algorithms with differential privacy constraints and proposes private variants of Top Two algorithms.
result Private variants of Top Two algorithms achieve asymptotic optimality in terms of sample complexity for BAI problems under differential privacy constraints.
New algorithms improve privacy in bandit problems with partial information.
problem Privacy constraints in multi-armed bandit problems with partial reward information.
method Proposed a generic framework for designing ε-global DP extensions of UCB and KL-UCB algorithms. result AdaP-KLUCB algorithm achieves optimal regret bound under ε-global DP constraints. DP-RandP improves privacy-utility tradeoff in DP-SGD by learning priors from random processes.
problem Improving the performance of differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) on private data.
method A three-phase approach that learns priors from images generated by random processes and transfers these priors to private data.
result New state-of-the-art accuracy on CIFAR10, CIFAR100, MedMNIST, and ImageNet for various privacy budgets.
Paper uses statistical depth to create DP estimators for regression.
problem Creating differentially private estimators in high dimensions.
method Uses halfspace and regression depth to analyze maximum influence and construct DP estimators.
result New DP estimators for location and regression show favorable performance.
This paper improves deep learning models' accuracy with differential privacy using gradient encoding and denoising.
problem Deep learning models leak sensitive information about their training datasets.
method Gradient encoding to map gradients to a smaller vector space, and denoising for post-processing.
result Our technique achieves better model accuracy with differential privacy guarantees compared to state-of-the-art methods.
This work improves privacy-generalization bounds for DP-SGD.
problem Understanding the trade-off between privacy and generalization in machine learning.
method Proved a linear max-information bound for DP-SGD, derived PAC-Bayes and generalization bounds.
result Explicit and controlled complexity terms for DP-SGD-trained models.
Proposes a method to generate private synthetic data in a decentralized setting using correlated noise.
problem Challenges of generating private synthetic data in a decentralized setting with limited client data.
method Integrates CAPE protocol into federated DP-CDA framework to generate anti-correlated noise.
result Improves privacy-utility trade-off in federated setting compared to centralized approach.
The paper introduces a privacy-preserving method for estimating treatment effects that maintains accuracy.
problem Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects in sensitive data while protecting privacy.
method A general meta-algorithm for CATE estimation with differential privacy guarantees, using sample splitting and parallel composition.
result The meta-algorithm maintains accuracy even with differential privacy, showing that most accuracy loss is due to variance increase.
Proposes MIP, a privacy notion that requires less randomness than DP, leading to better utility.
problem Preserving privacy in machine learning models with sensitive data.
method Introduces membership inference privacy (MIP) as a new privacy notion and shows its relationship with differential privacy (DP).
result MIP can be achieved with less randomness than DP, resulting in better utility.
Study differential privacy in multi-agent RL, achieving efficient and private learning.
problem Protecting sensitive data in multi-agent reinforcement learning.
method Extending DP definitions to two-player games, designing an efficient algorithm with privatized bonuses.
result Achieved trajectory-wise differential privacy in multi-agent RL, improving regret bounds.
This paper presents a method to generate synthetic data with differential privacy to protect user privacy while maintaining data trends.
problem Protecting user privacy while using real data for AI applications.
method Develops a practical guide to generating synthetic data using differential privacy.
result Synthetic data can be generated to preserve trends of real data while ensuring strong privacy protections.
Study on privacy-preserving health care models that sacrifice accuracy for data protection.
problem Privacy-preserving models in health care neglect data from the tails, reducing accuracy for small groups.
method Used state-of-the-art differentially private learning methods for clinical prediction tasks.
result Privacy-preserving models in health care exhibit steep tradeoffs between privacy and utility, and disproportionately influence large demographic groups.
DP-LSTM predicts stock prices using financial news with improved accuracy and privacy.
problem Predicting stock prices with financial news articles.
method Integrates financial news articles into a sentiment-ARMA model, then uses an LSTM network with differential privacy.
result Achieves up to 65.79% improvement in MSE for S&P 500 prediction.