The Microsoft Research Privacy in AI group explores questions related to Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning and Federated Learning. Some of the topics of interest covering research areas in PPML and FL are:

  • Privacy attacks, including membership inference, poisoning attacks, and reconstruction attacks
  • Privacy metrics and properties of machine learning pipelines
  • Privacy mitigations in machine learning, such as differentially private model training
  • Causal Federated Learning
  • Federated optimization
  • Multi-party data collaboration
  • Privacy in Federated Learning
  • Adversarial robustness in Federated Learning
  • Hierarchical training
  • Genetic algorithms for Federated Learning