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Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used notion for reasoning about privacy when publishing aggregate data. In this paper, we observe that certain DP mechanisms are amenable to a posteriori privacy analysis that exploits the fact that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Valentin Hartmann , Vincent Bindschaedler , Alexander Bentkamp , Robert West

The literature on differential privacy almost invariably assumes that the data to be analyzed are fully observed. In most practical applications this is an unrealistic assumption. A popular strategy to address this problem is imputation, in…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Soumojit Das , Jorg Drechsler , Keith Merrill , Shawn Merrill

We study the problem of performing counting queries at different levels in hierarchical structures while preserving individuals' privacy. Motivated by applications, we propose a new error measure for this problem by considering a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Kewen Wu

How to query a dataset in the way of preserving the privacy of individuals whose data is included in the dataset is an important problem. The information privacy model, a variant of Shannon's information theoretic model to the encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Genqiang Wu

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

Composition is one of the most important properties of differential privacy (DP), as it allows algorithm designers to build complex private algorithms from DP primitives. We consider precise composition bounds of the overall privacy loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Jinshuo Dong , David Durfee , Ryan Rogers

We give new mechanisms for answering exponentially many queries from multiple analysts on a private database, while protecting differential privacy both for the individuals in the database and for the analysts. That is, our mechanism's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Justin Hsu , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman

Prior work on differential privacy analysis of randomized SGD algorithms relies on composition theorems, where the implicit (unrealistic) assumption is that the internal state of the iterative algorithm is revealed to the adversary. As a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Jiayuan Ye , Reza Shokri

Differential privacy is a de facto standard for statistical computations over databases that contain private data. The strength of differential privacy lies in a rigorous mathematical definition that guarantees individual privacy and yet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gilles Barthe , Rohit Chadha , Vishal Jagannath , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

Differential privacy is a rigorous privacy condition achieved by randomizing query answers. This paper develops efficient algorithms for answering multiple queries under differential privacy with low error. We pursue this goal by advancing…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

Differential privacy is a rigorous privacy standard that has been applied to a range of data analysis tasks. To broaden the application scenarios of differential privacy when data records have dependencies, the notion of Bayesian…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao

In the differentially private top-$k$ selection problem, we are given a dataset $X \in \{\pm 1\}^{n \times d}$, in which each row belongs to an individual and each column corresponds to some binary attribute, and our goal is to find a set…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-13 Mitali Bafna , Jonathan Ullman

Differential privacy is a formal mathematical {stand-ard} for quantifying the degree of that individual privacy in a statistical database is preserved. To guarantee differential privacy, a typical method is adding random noise to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jianping He , Lin Cai

Differential privacy (DP) provides formal guarantees that the output of a database query does not reveal too much information about any individual present in the database. While many differentially private algorithms have been proposed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Royce J Wilson , Celia Yuxin Zhang , William Lam , Damien Desfontaines , Daniel Simmons-Marengo , Bryant Gipson

Differential privacy is a strong notion for privacy that can be used to prove formal guarantees, in terms of a privacy budget, $\epsilon$, about how much information is leaked by a mechanism. However, implementations of privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Datasets containing sensitive information are often sequentially analyzed by many algorithms. This raises a fundamental question in differential privacy regarding how the overall privacy bound degrades under composition. To address this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-26 Qinqing Zheng , Jinshuo Dong , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Due to successful applications of data analysis technologies in many fields, various institutions have accumulated a large amount of data to improve their services. As the speed of data collection has increased dramatically over the last…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Wen Huang , Shijie Zhou , Tianqing Zhu , Yongjian Liao

In this paper, we develop compositional methods for formally verifying differential privacy for algorithms whose analysis goes beyond the composition theorem. Our methods are based on the observation that differential privacy has deep…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Pierre-Yves Strub

Differential privacy is a widely adopted framework designed to safeguard the sensitive information of data providers within a data set. It is based on the application of controlled noise at the interface between the server that stores and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Rūta Binkytė , Carlos Pinzón , Szilvia Lestyán , Kangsoo Jung , Héber H. Arcolezi , Catuscia Palamidessi