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New DP-Muon method enhances differentially private optimization

Researchers have developed DP-Muon, a novel method for differentially private optimization that utilizes matrix-orthogonalized momentum. This approach addresses the mean distortion introduced when new Gaussian noise is applied to nonlinear matrix transformations. DP-Muon aims to reduce this bias, with experiments on GPT-2 showing favorable results in test Negative Log-Likelihood compared to Adam baselines across various privacy settings. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jihwan Kim, Chenglin Fan ·

    DP-Muon: Differentially Private Optimization via Matrix-Orthogonalized Momentum

    arXiv:2605.12994v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study differentially private optimization with matrix-orthogonalized momentum. DP-Muon uses conventional global per-example clipping and one Gaussian gradient release per step; matrix updates and auxiliary updates are post-pr…