arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

A Differentially Private Federated Proximal Optimization Framework for Customer Churn Prediction in Heterogeneous Federated Telecom Networks

The paper introduces a Differentially Private Federated Proximal (DP‑FedProx) framework for predicting customer churn in telecom networks. It compares DP‑FedProx with FedAvg, DP‑FedAvg, FedProx, and several centralized/local models on two public churn datasets, showing that DP‑FedProx consistently outperforms FedAvg variants and matches the best centralized model with only a slight accuracy loss while offering privacy guarantees. SHAP analysis reveals that DP‑FedProx prioritizes revenue‑group features, highlighting its practical balance between performance and privacy.

By Joydeb Kumar Sana, Subrata Chakraborty, M M Manjurul Islam
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 Machine Learning
Sep 3

Private Computation Space: Experience with Trusted Multi-Cluster Federated Learning for Agriculture

The paper introduces the Private Computation Space (PCS), an open‑source federated learning system designed for agriculture that protects farmer data using asynchronous federated learning, differential privacy, and trusted execution environments. PCS runs on commodity hardware and is resilient to rural infrastructure challenges. In two real‑world deployments—nitrogen monitoring in New York and evapotranspiration prediction in California—PCS achieved a Dice Similarity Coefficient of 0.71 and an $R^2$ of 0.84, improving single‑site model accuracy by 22.4% and 9.1% respectively while preserving privacy.

By Shuangyu Lei, Muhammad Salman Abid, Jacob Belding, Sam Mosher, Manushi B. Trivedi, Shivranjani Baruah, Liam Wickes-Do, Andrew Anderson, Braulio Dumba, Alyssa Whitcraft, Ritvik Sahajpal, Sijin Li, Kelly Robbins, Michael Gore, Margaret Frank, Steven Wolf, Liz Jones, Abraham Stroock, Kaitlin Gold, Hakim Weatherspoon
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