arXiv:2607. 27815v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Local differential privacy (LDP) protocols are vulnerable to poisoning attacks.
By Puning Zhao, Zhikun Zhang, Shaowei Wang, Sheng Yue, Bangzhou Xin, Tianhang Zheng, Pengfei Zhang, Xiaochun Cao
arXiv:2503. 10945v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current practices for reporting differential privacy (DP) guarantees for machine learning (ML) algorithms such as DP-SGD provide an incomplete and potentially misleading picture.
By Juan Felipe Gomez, Bogdan Kulynych, Georgios Kaissis, Flavio P. Calmon, Jamie Hayes, Borja Balle, Antti Honkela
arXiv:2602. 06838v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Federated learning enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving data privacy.
By Jin Wang, Hui Ma, Yajun Zhang, Xinjun Pei, Ming Yan, Fei Xing, Yikun Chen
The paper explores how missing data can inherently enhance privacy in machine learning. By integrating missingness into a differential privacy framework, the authors demonstrate that the absence of certain features can amplify privacy guarantees without altering the underlying algorithm. This reveals a previously overlooked interaction between data incompleteness and formal privacy protections.
By Simon Roburin (LPSM), Rafa{\"e}l Pinot (LPSM), Erwan Scornet (LPSM)
The paper introduces Jacobian-Guided Anisotropic Noise Reshaping, a method that improves data utility under Local Differential Privacy by selectively reducing noise in task-relevant subspaces of data representations. It uses the Jacobian of a public downstream model to identify critical directions and reshapes isotropic LDP noise into an anisotropic distribution, preserving privacy while enhancing performance. Experiments on CIFAR-10-C show significant accuracy gains, especially for PrivUnit variants at ε=7.5.
By Youngmok Ha, Viktor Schlegel, Yidan Sun, Anil Anthony Bharath
arXiv:2606. 04399v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the paradigm of decentralized learning, a group of agents collaborate to train a global model using distributed datasets without a central server.
By Yunsheng Yuan, Xue Xiao, Lina Wang, Feng Li