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Conor Snedeker
dblp:329/4844
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Efficient and distributed learning · 87% Representation and self-supervised learning · 13% | |
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Privacy and data protection · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning
federated learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Private Model Personalization Revisited · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Efficient and distributed learning › federated learning
model personalization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Private Model Personalization Revisited · ICML 2025 |
Privacy and data protection
differential privacy |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Private Model Personalization Revisited · ICML 2025 |
Privacy and data protection › privacy analysis › privacy models
user-level differential privacy |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Private Model Personalization Revisited · ICML 2025 |
Machine learning › Representation and self-supervised learning › representation learning › joint representation learning › multi-task representation learning
shared representation learning |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Private Model Personalization Revisited · ICML 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
johnson-lindenstrauss transform · 1.7fedrep · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Private Model Personalization RevisitedabstractWe study model personalization under user-level differential privacy (DP) in the shared representation framework. In this problem, there are $n$ users whose data is statistically heterogeneous, and their optimal parameters share an unknown embedding $U^* \in\mathbb{R}^{d\times k}$ that maps the user parameters in $\mathbb{R}^d$ to low-dimensional representations in $\mathbb{R}^k$, where $k\ll d$. Our goal is to privately recover the shared embedding and the local low-dimensional representations with small excess risk in the federated setting. We propose a private, efficient federated learning algorithm to learn the shared embedding based on the FedRep algorithm in (Collins et al.,
2021). Unlike (Collins et al., 2021), our algorithm satisfies differential privacy, and our results hold for the case of noisy labels. In contrast to prior work on private model personalization (Jain et al., 2021), our utility guarantees hold under a larger class of users' distributions (sub-Gaussian instead of Gaussian distributions). Additionally, in natural parameter regimes, we improve the privacy error term in (Jain
et al., 2021) by a factor of $\widetilde{O}(dk)$. Next, we consider the binary classification setting. We present an information-theoretic construction to privately learn the shared embedding and derive a margin-based accuracy guarantee that is independent of $d$. Our method utilizes the Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform to reduce the effective dimensions of the shared embedding and the users' data. This result shows that dimension-independent risk bounds are possible in this setting under a margin loss. Conor Snedeker, Raef Bassily |
ICML | 1 |