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Poster: Adaptive Gradient Clipping with Personalized Differential Privacy for Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Hao Zhou, Hua Dai, Siqi Cai, Geng Yang, Yang Xiang

Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2025

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Abstract

We present GC-DP, a novel federated learning framework that enables personalized differential privacy by adaptively adjusting gradient clipping thresholds. Unlike traditional DP methods that apply a fixed clipping bound, GC-DP uses a proxy dataset to learn client-specific mappings from privacy budgets (ε) to optimal clipping thresholds (C^*), while also allowing each client to adjust its local clipping bound in real time based on the l2 norm of its local gradient. This dual adaptivity significantly improves the balance between privacy protection and model utility in heterogeneous FL settings.

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