Differentially private fine-tuning of language models

D Yu, S Naik, A Backurs, S Gopi, HA Inan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We give simpler, sparser, and faster algorithms for differentially private fine-tuning of large-
scale pre-trained language models, which achieve the state-of-the-art privacy versus utility …

Gaussian differential privacy

J Dong, A Roth, WJ Su - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In the past decade, differential privacy has seen remarkable success as a rigorous and
practical formalization of data privacy. This privacy definition and its divergence based …

Concentrated differential privacy: Simplifications, extensions, and lower bounds

M Bun, T Steinke - Theory of cryptography conference, 2016 - Springer
Abstract “Concentrated differential privacy” was recently introduced by Dwork and Rothblum
as a relaxation of differential privacy, which permits sharper analyses of many privacy …

Private empirical risk minimization: Efficient algorithms and tight error bounds

R Bassily, A Smith, A Thakurta - 2014 IEEE 55th annual …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Convex empirical risk minimization is a basic tool in machine learning and statistics. We
provide new algorithms and matching lower bounds for differentially private convex …

Hyperparameter tuning with renyi differential privacy

N Papernot, T Steinke - arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.03620, 2021 - arxiv.org
For many differentially private algorithms, such as the prominent noisy stochastic gradient
descent (DP-SGD), the analysis needed to bound the privacy leakage of a single training …

The complexity of differential privacy

S Vadhan - Tutorials on the Foundations of Cryptography …, 2017 - Springer
Differential privacy is a theoretical framework for ensuring the privacy of individual-level data
when performing statistical analysis of privacy-sensitive datasets. This tutorial provides an …

Algorithmic stability for adaptive data analysis

R Bassily, K Nissim, A Smith, T Steinke… - Proceedings of the forty …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Adaptivity is an important feature of data analysis-the choice of questions to ask about a
dataset often depends on previous interactions with the same dataset. However, statistical …

Unleashing the power of randomization in auditing differentially private ml

K Pillutla, G Andrew, P Kairouz… - Advances in …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We present a rigorous methodology for auditing differentially private machine learning by
adding multiple carefully designed examples called canaries. We take a first principles …

The cost of privacy: Optimal rates of convergence for parameter estimation with differential privacy

TT Cai, Y Wang, L Zhang - The Annals of Statistics, 2021 - projecteuclid.org
The cost of privacy: Optimal rates of convergence for parameter estimation with differential
privacy Page 1 The Annals of Statistics 2021, Vol. 49, No. 5, 2825–2850 https://doi.org/10.1214/21-AOS2058 …

When is memorization of irrelevant training data necessary for high-accuracy learning?

G Brown, M Bun, V Feldman, A Smith… - Proceedings of the 53rd …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Modern machine learning models are complex and frequently encode surprising amounts of
information about individual inputs. In extreme cases, complex models appear to memorize …