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In this article, we propose a novel privacy-preserving mechanism for distributed MTL, namely NOInfer, to allow several task nodes to train the model locally and transfer their shared knowledge privately. Specifically, we construct a single-server architecture to achieve the private MTL, which protects task nodes\u2019 local data even if\n            <jats:inline-formula content-type=\"math\/tex\">\n              <jats:tex-math notation=\"TeX\" version=\"MathJax\">n-1<\/jats:tex-math>\n            <\/jats:inline-formula>\n            out of\n            <jats:inline-formula content-type=\"math\/tex\">\n              <jats:tex-math notation=\"TeX\" version=\"MathJax\">n<\/jats:tex-math>\n            <\/jats:inline-formula>\n            nodes colluded. 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