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Real-time data-driven optimization and control problems over networks may require sensitive information of participating users to calculate solutions and decision variables, such as in traffic or energy systems. Adversaries with access to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Roel Dobbe , Ye Pu , Jingge Zhu , Kannan Ramchandran , Claire Tomlin

When applying differential privacy to sensitive data, we can often improve performance using external information such as other sensitive data, public data, or human priors. We propose to use the learning-augmented algorithms (or algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mikhail Khodak , Kareem Amin , Travis Dick , Sergei Vassilvitskii

This paper provides a unified approach to characterize the set of all feasible signals subject to privacy constraints. The Blackwell frontier of feasible signals can be decomposed into minimum informative signals achieving the Blackwell…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-11-27 Zhang Xu , Wei Zhao

Security analyses of quantum cryptographic protocols typically rely on certain conditions; one such condition is that the sender (Alice) and receiver (Bob) have isolated devices inaccessible to third parties. If an eavesdropper (Eve) has a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Jason Pereira , Stefano Pirandola

We study privacy-utility trade-offs where users share privacy-correlated useful information with a service provider to obtain some utility. The service provider is adversarial in the sense that it can infer the users' private information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Xiaoming Duan , Zhe Xu , Rui Yan , Ufuk Topcu

We examine a private ADMM variant for (strongly) convex objectives which is a primal-dual iterative method. Each iteration has a user with a private function used to update the primal variable, masked by Gaussian noise for local privacy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 T-H. Hubert Chan , Hao Xie , Mengshi Zhao

The amount of personal data collected in our everyday interactions with connected devices offers great opportunities for innovative services fueled by machine learning, as well as raises serious concerns for the privacy of individuals. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Pierre Dellenbach , Aurélien Bellet , Jan Ramon

We investigate the framework of privacy amplification by iteration, recently proposed by Feldman et al., from an information-theoretic lens. We demonstrate that differential privacy guarantees of iterative mappings can be determined by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Shahab Asoodeh , Mario Diaz , Flavio P. Calmon

A key concern for AI safety remains understudied in the machine learning (ML) literature: how can we ensure users of ML models do not leverage predictions on incorrect personal data to harm others? This is particularly pertinent given the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Muhammad H. Ashiq , Peter Triantafillou , Hung Yun Tseng , Grigoris G. Chrysos

We study the problem of computing the privacy parameters for DP machine learning when using privacy amplification via random batching and noise correlated across rounds via a correlation matrix $\textbf{C}$ (i.e., the matrix mechanism).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Arun Ganesh , Saminul Haque , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

We study the computational cost of differential privacy in terms of memory efficiency. While the trade-off between accuracy and differential privacy is well-understood, the inherent cost of privacy regarding memory use remains largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alessandro Epasto , Xin Lyu , Pasin Manurangsi

Personal AI systems increasingly retain long-term memory of user activity, including documents, emails, messages, meetings, and ambient recordings. Trusted hardware can keep this data private, but struggles to scale with a growing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Darya Kaviani , Alp Eren Ozdarendeli , Jinhao Zhu , Yu Ding , Raluca Ada Popa

We treat privacy in a network of quantum sensors where accessible information is limited to specific functions of the network parameters, and all other information remains private. We develop an analysis of privacy in terms of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Majid Hassani , Santiago Scheiner , Matteo G. A. Paris , Damian Markham

In large-scale statistical learning, data collection and model fitting are moving increasingly toward peripheral devices---phones, watches, fitness trackers---away from centralized data collection. Concomitant with this rise in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-04 Abhishek Bhowmick , John Duchi , Julien Freudiger , Gaurav Kapoor , Ryan Rogers

Privacy preservation is becoming an increasingly important issue in data mining and machine learning. In this paper, we consider the privacy preserving features of distributed subgradient optimization algorithms. We first show that a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Youcheng Lou , Lean Yu , Shouyang Wang

Differential privacy (DP) considers a scenario, where an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy thread for an individual in real life.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

The design of a statistical signal processing privacy problem is studied where the private data is assumed to be observable. In this work, an agent observes useful data $Y$, which is correlated with private data $X$, and wants to disclose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

A novel definition for data privacy in quantum computing based on quantum hypothesis testing is presented in this paper. The parameters in this privacy notion possess an operational interpretation based on the success/failure of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-27 Farhad Farokhi

This paper considers a state dependent broadcast channel with one transmitter, Alice, and two receivers, Bob and Eve. The problem is to effectively convey ("amplify") the channel state sequence to Bob while "masking" it from Eve. The extent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-27 O. Ozan Koyluoglu , Rajiv Soundararajan , Sriram Vishwanath

In this paper, we present a first step towards a formalisation of the Quantum Key Distribution algorithm in Isabelle. We focus on the formalisation of the main probabilistic argument why Bob cannot be certain about the key bit sent by Alice…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Florian Kammüller