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A Differential Privacy Framework for Federated Learning

Jincheng Zhang

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2026

Abstract

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for training machine learning models on decentralized data, addressing privacy concerns by keeping data localized. However, traditional FL approaches often lack robust privacy protection, exposing sensitive user information during model aggregation. This paper proposes a novel framework integrating Differential Privacy (DP) into the FL process. Our framework introduces a DP mechanism within the model aggregation step, guaranteeing that the aggregated model does not reveal information about any individual user's data. We formally define the framework and analyze its privacy-utility trade-off, demonstrating improved privacy guarantees compared to standard FL. This work provides a significant step towards realizing truly private and secure FL systems.

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