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We study model personalization under user-level differential privacy (DP) in the shared representation framework. In this problem, there are $n$ users whose data is statistically heterogeneous, and their optimal parameters share an unknown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Conor Snedeker , Xinyu Zhou , Raef Bassily

As the modern world becomes increasingly digitized and interconnected, distributed signal processing has proven to be effective in processing its large volume of data. However, a main challenge limiting the broad use of distributed signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

The growing popularity of location-based systems, allowing unknown/untrusted servers to easily collect huge amounts of information regarding users' location, has recently started raising serious privacy concerns. In this paper we study…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-21 Miguel E. Andrés , Nicolás E. Bordenabe , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi

Motivated by the rapid rise in statistical tools in Functional Data Analysis, we consider the Gaussian mechanism for achieving differential privacy with parameter estimates taking values in a, potentially infinite-dimensional, separable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Ardalan Mirshani , Matthew Reimherr , Aleksandra Slavkovic

In recent years, differential privacy has been adopted by tech-companies and governmental agencies as the standard for measuring privacy in algorithms. In this article, we study differential privacy in Bayesian posterior sampling settings.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Shenggang Hu , Louis Aslett , Hongsheng Dai , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

Formal disclosure avoidance techniques are necessary to ensure that published data can not be used to identify information about individuals. The addition of statistical noise to unpublished data can be implemented to achieve differential…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-10 Ryan Janicki , Scott H. Holan , Kyle M. Irimata , James Livsey , Andrew Raim

Statistics about traffic flow and people's movement gathered from multiple geographical locations in a distributed manner are the driving force powering many applications, such as traffic prediction, demand prediction, and restaurant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Tatsuki Koga , Casey Meehan , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Networked system often relies on distributed algorithms to achieve a global computation goal with iterative local information exchanges between neighbor nodes. To preserve data privacy, a node may add a random noise to its original data for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Xinping Guan

Differential privacy is a framework for privately releasing summaries of a database. Previous work has focused mainly on methods for which the output is a finite dimensional vector, or an element of some discrete set. We develop methods for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-13 Rob Hall , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

We address the problem of synthesizing distorting mechanisms that maximize privacy of stochastic dynamical systems. Information about the system state is obtained through sensor measurements. This data is transmitted to a remote station…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Haleh Hayati , Carlos Murguia , Nathan van de Wouw

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent privatizes model training by injecting noise into each iteration, where the noise magnitude increases with the number of model parameters. Recent works suggest that we can reduce the noise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-25 Xin Gu , Gautam Kamath , Zhiwei Steven Wu

In distributed networks, calculating the maximum element is a fundamental task in data analysis, known as the distributed maximum consensus problem. However, the sensitive nature of the data involved makes privacy protection essential.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wenrui Yu , Richard Heusdens , Jun Pang , Qiongxiu Li

A critically important component of most signal processing procedures is that of computing the distance between signals. In multi-party processing applications where these signals belong to different parties, this introduces privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Abelino Jimenez , Bhiksha Raj

In recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a technique of choice for privacy-preserving data collection in several scenarios when the aggregator is not trustworthy. LDP provides client-side privacy by adding noise at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Tejas Kulkarni , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

We propose to extend the concept of private information retrieval by allowing for distortion in the retrieval process and relaxing the perfect privacy requirement at the same time. In particular, we study the trade-off between download…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Chung-Wei Weng , Yauhen Yakimenka , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Joerg Kliewer

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

Local differential privacy has become the gold-standard of privacy literature for gathering or releasing sensitive individual data points in a privacy-preserving manner. However, locally differential data can twist the probability density…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Farhad Farokhi

We study computing the convolution of a private input $x$ with a public input $h$, while satisfying the guarantees of $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy. Convolution is a fundamental operation, intimately related to Fourier…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Nadia Fawaz , S. Muthukrishnan , Aleksandar Nikolov

This work studies anomaly detection under differential privacy (DP) with Gaussian perturbation using both statistical and information-theoretic tools. In our setting, the adversary aims to modify the content of a statistical dataset by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ayse Unsal , Melek Onen