DDP-SA: Scalable Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Distributed Differential Privacy and Secure Aggregation

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Main Authors: Wei, Wenjing, Nait-Abdesselam, Farid, Jammine, Alla
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Published: 2026
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author Wei, Wenjing
Nait-Abdesselam, Farid
Jammine, Alla
author_facet Wei, Wenjing
Nait-Abdesselam, Farid
Jammine, Alla
contents This article presents DDP-SA, a scalable privacy-preserving federated learning framework that jointly leverages client-side local differential privacy (LDP) and full-threshold additive secret sharing (ASS) for secure aggregation. Unlike existing methods that rely solely on differential privacy or on secure multi-party computation (MPC), DDP-SA integrates both techniques to deliver stronger end-to-end privacy guarantees while remaining computationally practical. The framework introduces a two-stage protection mechanism: clients first perturb their local gradients with calibrated Laplace noise, then decompose the noisy gradients into additive secret shares that are distributed across multiple intermediate servers. This design ensures that (i) no single compromised server or communication channel can reveal any information about individual client updates, and (ii) the parameter server reconstructs only the aggregated noisy gradient, never any client-specific contribution. Extensive experiments show that DDP-SA achieves substantially higher model accuracy than standalone LDP while providing stronger privacy protection than MPC-only approaches. The proposed framework scales linearly with the number of participants and offers a practical, privacy-preserving solution for federated learning applications with controllable computational and communication overhead.
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spellingShingle DDP-SA: Scalable Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Distributed Differential Privacy and Secure Aggregation
Wei, Wenjing
Nait-Abdesselam, Farid
Jammine, Alla
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
This article presents DDP-SA, a scalable privacy-preserving federated learning framework that jointly leverages client-side local differential privacy (LDP) and full-threshold additive secret sharing (ASS) for secure aggregation. Unlike existing methods that rely solely on differential privacy or on secure multi-party computation (MPC), DDP-SA integrates both techniques to deliver stronger end-to-end privacy guarantees while remaining computationally practical. The framework introduces a two-stage protection mechanism: clients first perturb their local gradients with calibrated Laplace noise, then decompose the noisy gradients into additive secret shares that are distributed across multiple intermediate servers. This design ensures that (i) no single compromised server or communication channel can reveal any information about individual client updates, and (ii) the parameter server reconstructs only the aggregated noisy gradient, never any client-specific contribution. Extensive experiments show that DDP-SA achieves substantially higher model accuracy than standalone LDP while providing stronger privacy protection than MPC-only approaches. The proposed framework scales linearly with the number of participants and offers a practical, privacy-preserving solution for federated learning applications with controllable computational and communication overhead.
title DDP-SA: Scalable Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning via Distributed Differential Privacy and Secure Aggregation
topic Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07125