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Federated learning is the other common route to personalization without centralizing raw data: many devices train locally and only their model updates, not their data, are sent to a coordinating server for aggregation. DP-FedLoRA, a 2025 framework for privacy-enhanced federated fine-tuning of on-device LLMs, is explicit that this still needs its own safeguard, because federated fine-tuning on edge devices involves “processing sensitive, user-specific data, raising significant privacy concerns within the federated learning framework” even though raw data stays local [ 7 ] . Its response is differential privacy: each client “locally clips and perturbs its LoRA matrices using Gaussian noise”…

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(ε,δ)(\varepsilon, \delta)

Equation 19 · Edge AI & Electronics

The Hardest Unsolved Problems in Small and On-Device AI

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Federated learning is the other common route to personalization without centralizing raw data: many devices train locally and only their model updates, not their data, are sent to a coordinating server for aggregation. DP-FedLoRA, a 2025 framework for privacy-enhanced federated fine-tuning of on-device LLMs, is explicit that this still needs its own safeguard, because federated fine-tuning on edge devices involves “processing sensitive, user-specific data, raising significant privacy concerns within the federated learning framework” even though raw data stays local [ 7 ] . Its response is differential privacy: each client “locally clips and perturbs its LoRA matrices using Gaussian noise”…

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(ε,δ)(\varepsilon,\delta)

Equation 20 · Edge AI & Electronics

The Hardest Unsolved Problems in Small and On-Device AI

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The second is about whether differential privacy, as currently deployed in federated on-device fine-tuning, is an adequate defense or a partial one whose adequacy depends on an attacker’s sophistication. DP-FedLoRA’s authors present their calibrated-noise mechanism as delivering “strong privacy guarantees” alongside competitive model performance [ 7 ] . The Projection Residual attack was built and tested specifically to probe that class of claim, and its authors report their method holds up “even under strong differential privacy defenses” [ 6 ] . This is not necessarily a contradiction — a formal (ε\varepsilon,δ\delta) guarantee bounds a specific kind of information leakage under specific…

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