arXiv AI

An Adaptive Differentially Private Federated Learning Framework

arXiv:2602. 06838v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

Differentially Private Neural Network Training Under the Hidden State Assumption

arXiv:2407. 08233v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current differentially private learning paradigms face a severe utility bottleneck: DP-SGD degrades performance through noise accumulation over training steps, while aggregation-based approaches such as PATE suffer from data inefficiency due to disjoint data partitioning.

By Ding Chen, Haochen Luo, Xiaofei Wang, Chen Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Federated Learning via Explainable Adaptive Differential Privacy

arXiv:2509. 10691v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decentralized federated learning enables collaborative model training without a central server, but shared model updates can still leak sensitive information through inversion, reconstruction, and membership inference attacks.

By Fardin Jalil Piran, Zhiling Chen, Yang Zhang, Qianyu Zhou, Jiong Tang, Farhad Imani
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Privacy-Aligned Personalized Federated Learning with Compact Adaptation and Variable-Length Gaussian Communication

The paper proposes a privacy‑aligned personalized federated learning method that releases a private client context once and limits repeated adaptation to a fixed coefficient space, thereby reducing dimensionality misalignment. A factorized generator creates an adaptive optimization geometry that reshapes noisy updates, and most of the private‑training benefit is preserved by radial evolution. Variable‑length Gaussian quantization is used for coefficient updates, allowing the quantization error to act as the privacy perturbation and cutting protected uplink communication by a factor of 2.67 on CIFAR‑10 at ε=16 while maintaining comparable future‑client accuracy.

By Yilin Xu, Chun Hei Michael Shiu, Chih Wei Ling, Linqi Song
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Theoretically Principled Federated Learning for Balancing Privacy and Utility

The paper introduces a general learning framework that protects privacy in federated learning by distorting model parameters, enabling a trade‑off between privacy and utility. The algorithm supports arbitrary privacy measurements and delivers personalized utility‑privacy balances for each parameter, client, and communication round. The authors prove that the gap between their algorithm’s utility loss and the optimal loss is sub‑linear in iterations, provide a convergence rate, and demonstrate empirically that their method outperforms baselines under the same privacy budget.

By Xiaojin Zhang, Wenjie Li, Yiming Li, Wei Chen, Shutao Xia, Qiang Yang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 1

IntraShuffler: A Privacy Preserving Framework for Heterogeneous DP Federated Learning

Heterogeneous Differential Privacy (HDP) in Federated Learning (FL) allows clients to select individual privacy budgets ($\varepsilon_i$) according to institutional policies and data sensitivity. In practice, many HDP-FL systems employ $\varepsilon$-aware server aggregation to improve model utility by re-weighting client updates according to their declared privacy budgets.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

Privacy-enhanced federated learning via asynchronous aggregation and local differential perturbation

arXiv:2609.15885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study proposes a privacy-enhanced federated learning framework to address secure collaborative training in distributed data environments. The fr...

By Zhen Zhong (Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., USA), Shini Yang (LinkedIn, CA, USA), Liesheng Wei (Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China)