Differential Privacy
Differential privacy (DP) is a rigorous framework for ensuring data privacy in machine learning by adding carefully calibrated noise to model training processes. Current research focuses on improving the accuracy of DP models, particularly for large-scale training, through techniques like adaptive noise allocation, Kalman filtering for noise reduction, and novel gradient processing methods. This active area of research is crucial for enabling the responsible use of sensitive data in various applications, ranging from healthcare and finance to natural language processing and smart grids, while maintaining strong privacy guarantees.
Papers
Towards Biologically Plausible and Private Gene Expression Data Generation
Dingfan Chen, Marie Oestreich, Tejumade Afonja, Raouf Kerkouche, Matthias Becker, Mario Fritz
De-amplifying Bias from Differential Privacy in Language Model Fine-tuning
Sanjari Srivastava, Piotr Mardziel, Zhikhun Zhang, Archana Ahlawat, Anupam Datta, John C Mitchell