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Differential privacy introduces random noise to individual data points to ensure privacy while maintaining the overall symmetry of statistical distributions. However, excessive noise can reduce the utility of data, model accuracy, and computational efficiency. This study proposes a symmetry-preserving optimization framework for differentially private machine learning by integrating feature importance and t-SNE (t-distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding), UMAP (Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection), and PCA (Principal Component Analysis), respectively. Feature importance derived from a random forest selects high-value features to improve data relevance. At the same time, t-SNE preserves geometric symmetry by retaining local and global structures more effectively than PCA or UMAP. Therefore, t-SNE is the best feature extraction method for dimensionality reduction in the proposed scheme. 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