Scalable Differential Privacy Mechanisms for Real-Time Machine Learning Applications (2410.02462v1)

Abstract: LLMs are increasingly integrated into real-time machine learning applications, where safeguarding user privacy is paramount. Traditional differential privacy mechanisms often struggle to balance privacy and accuracy, particularly in fast-changing environments with continuously flowing data. To address these issues, we introduce Scalable Differential Privacy (SDP), a framework tailored for real-time machine learning that emphasizes both robust privacy guarantees and enhanced model performance. SDP employs a hierarchical architecture to facilitate efficient noise aggregation across various learning agents. By integrating adaptive noise scheduling and gradient compression methods, our approach minimizes performance degradation while ensuring significant privacy protection. Extensive experiments on diverse datasets reveal that SDP maintains high accuracy levels while applying differential privacy effectively, showcasing its suitability for deployment in sensitive domains. This advancement points towards the potential for widespread adoption of privacy-preserving techniques in machine learning workflows.