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In a recent work, Gryaznov, Pudl\'{a}k, and Talebanfard (CCC' 22) introduced a stronger version of affine extractors known as directional affine extractors, together with a generalization of $\mathsf{ROBP}$s where each node can make linear…

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Creation of synthetic data models has represented a significant advancement across diverse scientific fields, but this technology also brings important privacy considerations for users. This work focuses on enhancing a non-parametric…

This paper studies the secrecy results for the two-way wiretap channel (TW-WC) with an external eavesdropper under a strong secrecy metric. Employing non-adaptive coding, we analyze the information leakage and the decoding error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Masahito Hayashi , Yanling Chen

The study of private inference has been sparked by growing concern regarding the analysis of data when it stems from sensitive sources. We present the first method for private Bayesian inference in exponential families that properly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-29 Garrett Bernstein , Daniel Sheldon

Power consumption data is very useful as it allows to optimize power grids, detect anomalies and prevent failures, on top of being useful for diverse research purposes. However, the use of power consumption data raises significant privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Ganesh Del Grosso , Georg Pichler , Pablo Piantanida

We propose a method to study the secrecy constraints in key generation problems where side information might be present at untrusted users. Our method is inspired by a recent work of Hayashi and Tan who used the R\'enyi divergence as the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Lin Zhou

Transformer models have gained significant attention due to their power in machine learning tasks. Their extensive deployment has raised concerns about the potential leakage of sensitive information during inference. However, when being…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zhengyi Li , Kang Yang , Jin Tan , Wen-jie Lu , Haoqi Wu , Xiao Wang , Yu Yu , Derun Zhao , Yancheng Zheng , Minyi Guo , Jingwen Leng

This paper introduces a paradigm shift in the way privacy is defined, driven by a novel interpretation of the fundamental result of Dwork and Naor about the impossibility of absolute disclosure prevention. We propose a general model of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sara Saeidian , Giulia Cervia , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

The exponential mechanism is a fundamental tool of Differential Privacy (DP) due to its strong privacy guarantees and flexibility. We study its extension to settings with summaries based on infinite dimensional outputs such as with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Jordan Awan , Ana Kenney , Matthew Reimherr , Aleksandra Slavković

We study the problem of active nonparametric sequential two-sample testing over multiple heterogeneous data sources. In each time slot, a decision-maker adaptively selects one of $K$ data sources and receives a paired sample generated from…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Chia-Yu Hsu , Shubhanshu Shekhar

A lossy source coding problem is studied in which a source encoder communicates with two decoders, one with and one without correlated side information with an additional constraint on the privacy of the side information at the uninformed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-13 Ravi Tandon , Lalitha Sankar , H. Vincent Poor

Recent work by Dhulipala et al. \cite{DLRSSY22} initiated the study of the $k$-core decomposition problem under differential privacy via a connection between low round/depth distributed/parallel graph algorithms and private algorithms with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Laxman Dhulipala , George Z. Li , Quanquan C. Liu

Differential privacy is the state-of-the-art formal definition for data release under strong privacy guarantees. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed in the literature for releasing the output of numeric queries (e.g., the Laplace…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Victor A. E. Farias , Felipe T. Brito , Cheryl Flynn , Javam C. Machado , Subhabrata Majumdar , Divesh Srivastava

Differential privacy provides a theoretical framework for processing a dataset about $n$ users, in a way that the output reveals a minimal information about any single user. Such notion of privacy is usually ensured by noise-adding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Armando Angrisani , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi

A recent sequence of works, initially motivated by the study of the nonlocal properties of entanglement, demonstrate that a source of information-theoretically certified randomness can be constructed based only on two simple assumptions:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Matthew Coudron , Thomas Vidick , Henry Yuen

Estimating the probability density of a population while preserving the privacy of individuals in that population is an important and challenging problem that has received considerable attention in recent years. While the previous…

Computation · Statistics 2024-05-24 Mario Beraha , Stefano Favaro , Vinayak Rao

In this paper, the problem of securely computing a function over the binary modulo-2 adder multiple-access wiretap channel is considered. The problem involves a legitimate receiver that wishes to reliably and efficiently compute a function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mario Goldenbaum , Holger Boche , H. Vincent Poor

We show that adding differential privacy to Explainable Boosting Machines (EBMs), a recent method for training interpretable ML models, yields state-of-the-art accuracy while protecting privacy. Our experiments on multiple classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Harsha Nori , Rich Caruana , Zhiqi Bu , Judy Hanwen Shen , Janardhan Kulkarni

We consider the source model key agreement problem involving two legitimate parties and an eavesdropper who observe n i.i.d. samples of X, Y, and Z, respectively. In this paper, we focus on one of the simplest instances where the key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Hamidreza Abin , Amin Gohari

The goal of two-party cryptography is to enable two parties, Alice and Bob, to solve common tasks without the need for mutual trust. Examples of such tasks are private access to a database, and secure identification. Quantum communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Jędrzej Kaniewski , Stephanie Wehner