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Charlie Hou

3 accepted papers

2025

Private Federated Learning using Preference-Optimized Synthetic Data

ICML 2025poster

In practical settings, differentially private federated learning (DP-FL) is the dominant method for training models from private, on-device client data. Recent work has suggested that DP-FL may be enhanced or outperformed by methods that use DP synthetic data (Wu et al., 2024; Hou et al., 2024). Th…

2024

PrE-Text: Training Language Models on Private Federated Data in the Age of LLMs

ICML 2024oral

On-device training is currently the most common approach for training machine learning (ML) models on private, distributed user data. Despite this, on-device training has several drawbacks: (1) most user devices are too small to train large models on-device, (2) on-device training is communication-…

2022

FedChain: Chained Algorithms for Near-optimal Communication Cost in Federated Learning

ICLR 2022poster

Federated learning (FL) aims to minimize the communication complexity of training a model over heterogeneous data distributed across many clients. A common approach is local methods, where clients take multiple optimization steps over local data before communicating with the server (e.g., FedAvg).…

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