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Masked Diffusion Strategy for Privacy-Preserving Distributed Learning

Han, Hongyu
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Zhang, Sheng
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Chen, Hongyang
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2025
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

To protect both local gradients and estimated parameters in distributed learning, this paper introduces a masked diffusion (MD) strategy, leading to two algorithms: the MD stochastic gradient (MD-SG) and the MD primal-dual stochastic gradient (MPD-SG). The two algorithms distinguish themselves from existing privacy diffusion methods by incorporating two mechanisms: non-zero mean protection noise and a random matrix step-size. The first mechanism ensures the confidentiality of the transmitted values, while the second protects the gradient information. We analyze the mean-square stability and privacy of the proposed methods under standard assumptions. The results indicate that the MPD-SG algorithm, with a sufficiently small parameter γ, can achieve better steady-state performance than the MD-SG algorithm in heterogeneous data scenarios. Finally, simulations illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms and support the theoretical analysis.

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research article
DOI
10.1109/TIFS.2025.3593357
Scopus ID

2-s2.0-105012124052

Author(s)
Han, Hongyu

Sichuan Normal University

Zhang, Sheng

Southwest Jiaotong University

Chen, Hongyang

Zhejiang Lab

Sayed, Ali H.  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
Subjects

Distributed learning

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masked diffusion

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mean-square stability

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privacy-preserving

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August 20, 2025
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