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Jun 18, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Can DP‑SGD’s Toughest Clip Threshold Auto‑Adjust? Inside the SlaClip Method

The article presents SlaClip, an adaptive gradient‑clipping technique for differential‑privacy SGD that leverages the slack between gradient norms and the clipping threshold as a privacy‑preserving indicator, eliminating extra privacy queries and dynamically adjusting the clipping bound, with experiments showing competitive accuracy across datasets and budgets.