Chapter 7 Private Deep Learning

By Nicolas Papernot, University of Toronto and Vector

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Published: 23 Jul 2025

© 2025 Nicolas Papernot

Abstract

In this chapter, we introduce two approaches for deep learning with differential privacy: differentially private stochastic gradient descent (see Section 7.4) and the private aggregation of teacher ensembles (see Section 7.5). Before we do so, we first cover attacks against the privacy of training data used to train deep neural networks (Section 7.2). For clarity of exposition, we focus on deep learning approaches for classification in a supervised setting. In other words, the outputs of our models are always chosen among a discrete set of classes (e.g., a set of objects for object classification in computer vision).