
Aims and Scope
Privacy-Preserving Machine and Deep Learning (PP-MDL) is an emerging field that focuses on developing AI models that safeguard user data while maintaining high utility. This is achieved through a combination of techniques such as Differential Privacy (DP), Homomorphic Encryption (HE), and Federated Learning (FL).
Balancing privacy, efficiency, and model accuracy remains a core challenge in PP-MDL. Privacy-enhancing techniques often introduce trade-offs, such as increased computational overhead or reduced model accuracy, driving ongoing research toward more scalable, secure, and privacy-aware AI solutions.
Innovations in cryptographic methods, secure multiparty computation (MPC), and privacy-preserving neural architectures aim to bridge this gap, making privacy-respecting AI more practical for real-world applications.
Topics of Interest
- Innovative ML/DL models for PP-MDL
- HE for encrypted inference/training in PP-MDL
- Advances in MPC for PP-ML
- DP & k-Anonymity in PP-MDL
- Privacy-Preserving FL methods
- Hardware accelerators for PP-MDL
- Ethical aspects of PP-MDL
- Novel applications of PP-MDL
- PP-MDL for genomic/health data
- PP-MDL for privacy-preserving Large Language Models (LLMs)
- Software frameworks for PP-MDL
- PP-MDL as-a-service solutions
Submission Guidelines
The IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine (CIM) publishes peer-reviewed, high-quality articles. All manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format.
- Use IEEE two-column, single-space format
- Length: 10 pages (including figures and references) for regular papers, different rules apply for different types of papers
- Page charges apply for papers exceeding 10 pages
- IEEE CIM Submission Guidelines
Submission Link: (to be added)
Important Dates
- Manuscript Due: December 1, 2025
- First Notification: March 1, 2026
- Revision Due: May 1, 2026
- Final Notification: July 1, 2026
Guest Editors
- Prof. Manuel Roveri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Prof. Seiichi Ozawa, Kobe University, Japan
- Dr. Goichiro Hanaoka, AIST, Japan
- Dr. Alessandro Falcetta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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