Communication and privacy are two critical concerns in distributed learning. Many existing works treat these concerns separately. In this work, we argue that a natural connection exists between methods for communication reduction and privacy preservation in the context of distributed machine learning. In particular, we…
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.
New method improves FL efficiency by shuffling data, balancing privacy and accuracy.
problem Balancing privacy, communication, and accuracy in federated learning.
method Developed communication-efficient schemes for private mean estimation, combining privacy amplification and shuffled data.
result Achieved same privacy, optimization performance with lower communication cost.
Paper addresses privacy and communication in distributed learning, achieving optimal performance.
problem Balancing privacy, communication, and accuracy in distributed learning and estimation.
method Developed novel encoding and decoding mechanisms for mean and frequency estimation under local differential privacy and communication constraints.
result Achieved optimal privacy and communication efficiency in mean and frequency estimation.
Novel compression method preserves privacy while reducing communication costs.
problem Reducing communication costs in differential privacy mechanisms.
method Poisson private representation (PPR) for compressing and simulating local randomizers.
result Achieves compression within a logarithmic gap from theoretical lower bound.
Distributed stochastic gradient descent is an important subroutine in distributed learning. A setting of particular interest is when the clients are mobile devices, where two important concerns are communication efficiency and the privacy of the clients. Several recent works have focused on reducing the communication c…
D2P-Fed improves privacy and communication in federated learning.
problem Achieving both differential privacy and communication efficiency in federated learning.
method Applying discrete Gaussian noise to private data transmission.
result D2P-Fed outperforms state-of-the-art by 4.7% to 13.0% in model accuracy with one-third less communication cost.
Study optimizes privacy in distributed optimization, balancing accuracy and communication.
problem Privacy-preserving distributed stochastic convex optimization.
method Distributed algorithm using Vaidya's plane cutting method, with privacy guarantees via differential privacy.
result Complete characterization of accuracy-communication-privacy trade-off.
New method preserves privacy while detecting communities in distributed networks.
problem Privacy-preserving community detection in locally distributed multi-layer networks.
method Privacy-preserving Distributed Spectral Clustering (ppDSC) using randomized response mechanism.
result Developed a novel algorithm that maintains community structure while protecting privacy.
FedLog reduces communication in federated learning by sharing data summaries.
problem Significant communication overhead in federated learning with large model parameters.
method Shares minimal sufficient statistics via Bayesian inference and differential privacy.
result High learning accuracy with low communication overhead.
This review explores federated learning for IoT data privacy.
problem Privacy risks and data transfer costs in IoT data analytics.
method Federated learning approach to protect privacy and reduce data transfer.
result Survey of methods for improving communication efficiency and privacy in IoT federated learning.
DFedAvgM is a decentralized FedAvg with momentum for privacy and communication efficiency.
problem Efficiently train models with privacy and communication efficiency in federated learning.
method Decentralized Federated Averaging with Momentum (DFedAvgM) on clients connected by an undirected graph, using stochastic gradient descent with momentum and quantization.
result DFedAvgM converges under trivial assumptions and can be improved with the PŁ property, numerically verified.
A novel method for learning Bayesian network structures from decentralized data, balancing privacy and efficiency.
problem Privacy and communication costs in learning Bayesian network structures from decentralized data.
method Fed-Sparse-BNSL, combining differential privacy with greedy updates targeting only a few relevant edges per participant.
result Achieves utility close to non-private baselines while offering stronger privacy and communication efficiency.
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.
New algorithms for community detection in graphs with privacy constraints.
problem Community recovery in stochastic block models with node-wise privacy.
method Spectral clustering with privacy mechanisms, including privatized PCA, convex optimization, and matrix estimation.
result Developed algorithms that are computable in polynomial-time and achieve consistent community estimation under node differential privacy.
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.
Optimal privacy and accuracy in distributed mean estimation with compression.
problem Achieving optimal accuracy under privacy and communication constraints.
method Compression to reduce communication while maintaining privacy and accuracy.
result Achieves optimal error with significantly reduced communication.
The problem of secure friend discovery on a social network has long been proposed and studied. The requirement is that a pair of nodes can make befriending decisions with minimum information exposed to the other party. In this paper, we propose to use community detection to tackle the problem of secure friend discovery…
Polynomial-time algorithm for near-optimal community detection in graphs.
problem Node-private community estimation in stochastic block models.
method Explicit Lipschitz surrogate and accept-reject algorithm for sampling community labels.
result Achieves minimax rates for exact recovery with polynomial-time runtime and logarithmic privacy parameter.
This paper bounds min-entropy leakage for Blowfish privacy using graph symmetries.
problem Bounding min-entropy leakage for Blowfish privacy mechanisms.
method Organizing analysis over symmetrical partitions corresponding to orbits of graph automorphism groups.
result Demonstrates a construction meeting the bound with asymptotic equality, showing tightness.
Study binary hypothesis testing with privacy and communication constraints.
problem Binary hypothesis testing under local differential privacy and communication constraints.
method Qualifies results as minimax or instance optimal, develops instance-optimal algorithms.
result Achieves minimum possible sample complexity under both privacy and communication constraints.
TransNet improves community detection on target networks using privacy-preserved source networks.
problem Community detection on sensitive network data with privacy constraints.
method Spectral clustering framework leveraging locally distributed privacy-preserved auxiliary networks via randomized response and adaptive weighting.
result TransNet delivers strong gains in community detection across various privacy levels and heterogeneity patterns.
FedSKETCH and FedSKETCHGATE improve privacy and efficiency in federated learning.
problem Communication and privacy challenges in federated learning.
method Compression of local gradients using count sketch to protect privacy and reduce communication.
result Sharp convergence guarantees and experimental validation of the methods.
This paper explores advancements in neural network communication for distributed settings.
problem Challenges in training and evaluating neural networks in distributed, privacy-constrained environments.
method Development and evaluation of novel training and evaluation schemes for neural networks.
result Advantages of novel approaches over traditional cloud solutions, including privacy-preservation, increased security, and high training speed.
FedNew improves federated learning efficiency and privacy.
problem Low communication efficiency and privacy issues in Newton-type methods for federated learning.
method Introduces a two-level framework using ADMM for inverse Hessian-gradient approximation and Newton's method for global model updates, reducing communication overhead.
result FedNew achieves superior communication efficiency and privacy compared to existing methods.
FedPower improves eigenspace estimation privacy in federated learning.
problem Privacy breaches and communication challenges in federated eigenspace estimation.
method FedPower uses a power method with local power iterations and global aggregation, weighted by OPT, and adds Gaussian noise for privacy.
result FedPower provides convergence bounds and demonstrates effectiveness in experiments.
Decor protects decentralized learning models from curious users.
problem Privacy violation in decentralized learning.
method Decor uses correlated Gaussian noises to protect local models in decentralized SGD with differential privacy guarantees.
result Decor matches central DP optimal privacy-utility trade-off for arbitrary connected graphs.
New algorithm reduces federated learning rounds and improves privacy.
problem Inefficient synchronous federated learning causing scalability issues.
method Asynchronous federated learning with reduced communication and differential privacy via Gaussian noise.
result The algorithm reduces waiting times and network communication, making federated learning more scalable and private.
New methods reduce private federated learning communication automatically.
problem Reducing communication in private federated learning.
method Automatic compression rate adjustment based on training error, using secure aggregation and differential privacy.
result Provable instance-optimal for mean estimation, achieving favorable compression rates.
FLORAS uses orthogonal sequences for SISO FL, offering both DP and convergence guarantees.
problem Privacy-preserving wireless federated learning in SISO systems.
method Leverages orthogonal sequences to eliminate CSIT requirement and provide DP guarantees.
result FLORAS achieves a smooth tradeoff between convergence rate and DP levels.
We develop a secure aggregation protocol for federated learning that reduces communication and computation costs.
problem Expensive communication and privacy concerns in federated learning.
method Adapting compression-based federated techniques to additive secret sharing.
result Our protocol achieves high accuracy with low communication costs and is more efficient than prior work.
A(DP)2SGD improves federated learning privacy and efficiency.
problem Privacy and efficiency in federated learning with asynchronous decentralized parallel SGD.
method Differentially private asynchronous decentralized parallel SGD (A(DP)2SGD) using R{é}nyi differential privacy. result Achieves optimal convergence rate and comparable model accuracy to SSGD but faster.
This paper tackles energy-efficient machine learning on low-power devices.
problem Energy consumption in machine learning due to data communication.
method Dynamic averaging for integer exponential families on low-power processors.
result Achieves comparable model quality with significantly less communication and energy.
Distributed learning systems have enabled training large-scale models over large amount of data in significantly shorter time. In this paper, we focus on decentralized distributed deep learning systems and aim to achieve differential privacy with good convergence rate and low communication cost. To achieve this goal, w…
Paper introduces RPWithPrior for efficient label differential privacy in regression.
problem Protecting user privacy in regression tasks with minimal accuracy loss.
method Modeling responses as continuous random variables, avoiding discretization; estimating optimal intervals for randomized responses.
result RPWithPrior algorithm guarantees ε-label differential privacy and outperforms existing methods.
Framework evaluates quality of synthetic data generated with differential privacy.
problem Ensuring synthetic data retains statistical quality after applying differential privacy.
method Developed a framework to evaluate synthetic data quality from a practical researcher's viewpoint.
result Synthetic data can be evaluated against training data or underlying populations, and for specific tasks like inference or prediction.
This short note highlights some links between two lines of research within the emerging topic of trustworthy machine learning: differential privacy and robustness to adversarial examples. By abstracting the definitions of both notions, we show that they build upon the same theoretical ground and hence results obtained …
We consider the problem of reinforcing federated learning with formal privacy guarantees. We propose to employ Bayesian differential privacy, a relaxation of differential privacy for similarly distributed data, to provide sharper privacy loss bounds. We adapt the Bayesian privacy accounting method to the federated sett…
Exact optimality achieved in distributed mean estimation with shared randomness.
problem Achieving optimal communication, privacy, and utility tradeoffs in distributed mean estimation.
method Utilization of a rotationally symmetric shared random codebook and a k-closest encoding mechanism. result Proposed mechanism achieves exact optimality for randomly rotated simplex codebook.
This work improves privacy in federated combinatorial bandits by balancing regret and privacy.
problem Privacy-preserving learning in competitive online learning settings with quality constraints.
method Proposes P-FCB algorithm for federated combinatorial bandits, balancing regret and privacy.
result Improves regret while maintaining quality constraints and privacy guarantees.
FedGAN trains GANs across distributed data sources with reduced communication.
problem Training GANs across non-independent data sources with privacy and communication constraints.
method FedGAN uses local generators and discriminators synced via an intermediary, proving convergence under standard assumptions.
result FedGAN converges and performs similarly to general distributed GANs with reduced communication complexity.
New method amplifies privacy in decentralized learning without centralized communication.
problem Privacy amplification in decentralized federated learning.
method Random check-in protocol for DP-SGD in FL.
result Privacy/accuracy trade-offs similar to subsampling/shuffling, but without server-initiated communication.
Two new coding schemes improve the efficient communication of noisy data.
problem Efficient communication of noisy data in machine learning.
method Ordered Random Coding (ORC) and Hybrid Coding Scheme.
result Improved coding schemes over existing approaches.
Improved federated learning methods for privacy and efficiency.
problem Privacy and efficiency trade-offs in federated learning.
method FedHybrid and FedNewton: improved federated learning algorithms.
result Achieved comparable accuracy to FedSGD with fewer communication rounds.
In response to growing concerns about user privacy, federated learning has emerged as a promising tool to train statistical models over networks of devices while keeping data localized. Federated learning methods run training tasks directly on user devices and do not share the raw user data with third parties. However,…
Efficient algorithm reduces communication costs in sparse regression.
problem Sparse linear regression with massive data.
method CESDAR algorithm, communication-efficient surrogate likelihood.
result Achieves same statistical accuracy as global estimator with reduced communication.
This paper addresses privacy in federated learning with wireless clients and base stations.
problem Privacy of clients' data in federated learning with hierarchical wireless architecture.
method Derives communication cost limits and introduces private aggregation schemes tailored for hierarchical wireless systems.
result Private aggregation schemes reduce communication costs by multiplicative factors compared to information-theoretic limits.
DEOT method compares distributions across agents with privacy and efficiency.
problem Comparing distributions across agents in a distributed system.
method Decentralized entropic optimal transport with mini-batch randomized block-coordinate descent and decentralized kernel approximation.
result The method provides a privacy-preserving and communication-efficient solution to distributed distribution comparison.