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A General Approach to Adding Differential Privacy to Iterative Training Procedures

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abstract

In this work we address the practical challenges of training machine learning models on privacy-sensitive datasets by introducing a modular approach that minimizes changes to training algorithms, provides a variety of configuration strategies for the privacy mechanism, and then isolates and simplifies the critical logic that computes the final privacy guarantees. A key challenge is that training algorithms often require estimating many different quantities (vectors) from the same set of examples --- for example, gradients of different layers in a deep learning architecture, as well as metrics and batch normalization parameters. Each of these may have different properties like dimensionality, magnitude, and tolerance to noise. By extending previous work on the Moments Accountant for the subsampled Gaussian mechanism, we can provide privacy for such heterogeneous sets of vectors, while also structuring the approach to minimize software engineering challenges.

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cs.LG 3

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2026 2 2025 1

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When Determinants Are Not Enough: Private Rare Switching

cs.LG · 2026-05-22 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

Replaces determinant growth with generalized Rayleigh quotient for rare switching in private linear bandits to control worst-direction volume despite non-monotonic design matrices from noise.

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  • Collaborative Synthetic Data Generation for Knowledge Transfer in Federated Learning cs.LG · 2026-07-08 · conditional · none · ref 40 · internal anchor

    Clients encode private images through a frozen public autoencoder, compute additive class-conditional latent statistics protected by differential privacy, and the server decodes a synthetic dataset that trains competitive global models in one communication round.

  • When Determinants Are Not Enough: Private Rare Switching cs.LG · 2026-05-22 · unverdicted · none · ref 32 · internal anchor

    Replaces determinant growth with generalized Rayleigh quotient for rare switching in private linear bandits to control worst-direction volume despite non-monotonic design matrices from noise.

  • On Optimal Hyperparameters for Differentially Private Deep Transfer Learning cs.LG · 2025-10-23 · unverdicted · none · ref 8 · internal anchor

    Empirical study of DP transfer learning reveals that larger clipping bounds outperform under tight privacy and cumulative DP noise explains batch-size effects better than existing heuristics.