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The increasing popularity of social media has attracted a huge number of people to participate in numerous activities on a daily basis. This results in tremendous amounts of rich user-generated data. This data provides opportunities for…

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Differential privacy is a framework for protecting the identity of individual data points in the decision-making process. In this note, we propose a new form of differential privacy called tangent differential privacy. Compared with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Lexing Ying

Access to diverse, high-quality datasets is crucial for machine learning model performance, yet data sharing remains limited by privacy concerns and competitive interests, particularly in regulated domains like healthcare. This dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Keren Fuentes , Mimee Xu , Irene Chen

We study the anonymization technique of k-anonymity family for preserving privacy in the publication of microdata. Although existing approaches based on generalization can provide good enough protections, the generalized table always…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Boyu Li , Jianfeng Ma , Junhua Xi , Lili Zhang , Tao Xie , Tongfei Shang

Statistical agencies face a dual mandate to publish accurate statistics while protecting respondent privacy. Increasing privacy protection requires decreased accuracy. Recognizing this as a resource allocation problem, we propose an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-12 John M. Abowd , Ian M. Schmutte

Typical personal medical data contains sensitive information about individuals. Storing or sharing the personal medical data is thus often risky. For example, a short DNA sequence can provide information that can not only identify an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-01 Ho Bae , Dahuin Jung , Sungroh Yoon

Releasing Web query logs which contain valuable information for research or marketing, can breach the privacy of search engine users. Therefore rendering query logs to limit linking a query to an individual while preserving the data…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-11-13 Amin Milani Fard

In medical organizations large amount of personal data are collected and analyzed by the data miner or researcher, for further perusal. However, the data collected may contain sensitive information such as specific disease of a patient and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Pawan R Bhaladhare , Devesh Jinwala

Motivated by privacy concerns in long-term longitudinal studies in medical and social science research, we study the problem of continually releasing differentially private synthetic data from longitudinal data collections. We introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mark Bun , Marco Gaboardi , Marcel Neunhoeffer , Wanrong Zhang

In public health interventions such as distributing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, decision makers often use seeding algorithms to identify key individuals who can amplify intervention impact. However, building a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian , Fang-Yi Yu

Techniques to deliver privacy-preserving synthetic datasets take a sensitive dataset as input and produce a similar dataset as output while maintaining differential privacy. These approaches have the potential to improve data sharing and…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Luke Rodriguez , Bill Howe

Generative AI offers transformative potential for high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance, yet privacy and regulatory barriers hinder the use of real-world data. To address this, differentially private synthetic data generation…

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard of privacy preservation due to its strong protection and sound mathematical foundation, which is widely adopted in different applications such as big data analysis, graph data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Honglu Jiang , Yifeng Gao , S M Sarwar , Luis GarzaPerez , Mahmudul Robin

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

In this work we present three different randomized gossip algorithms for solving the average consensus problem while at the same time protecting the information about the initial private values stored at the nodes. We give iteration…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Filip Hanzely , Jakub Konečný , Nicolas Loizou , Peter Richtárik , Dmitry Grishchenko

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a robust framework for privacy-preserving data releases and has been successfully applied in high-profile cases, such as the 2020 US Census. However, in organizational settings, the use of DP remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nicolas Küchler , Alexander Viand , Hidde Lycklama , Anwar Hithnawi

The projected increase of genotyping in the clinic and the rise of large genomic databases has led to the possibility of using patient medical data to perform genomewide association studies (GWAS) on a larger scale and at a lower cost than…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-18 Sean Simmons , Cenk Sahinalp , Bonnie Berger

In this paper, we study the problem of summation evaluation of secrets. The secrets are distributed over a network of nodes that form a ring graph. Privacy-preserving iterative protocols for computing the sum of the secrets are proposed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Yang Liu , Qingchen Liu , Xiong Zhang , Shuqi Qin , Xiaoping Lei

The eruption of big data with the increasing collection and processing of vast volumes and variety of data have led to breakthrough discoveries and innovation in science, engineering, medicine, commerce, criminal justice, and national…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Fang Liu

Researchers often face the problem of needing to protect the privacy of subjects while also needing to integrate data that contains personal information from diverse data sources in order to conduct their research. The advent of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2011-12-06 Jason J. Jones , Robert M. Bond , Christopher J. Fariss , Jaime E. Settle , Adam Kramer , Cameron Marlow , James H. Fowler