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We introduce PrivPy, a practical privacy-preserving collaborative computation framework, especially optimized for machine learning tasks. PrivPy provides an easy-to-use and highly compatible Python programming front-end which supports…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Yi Li , Yitao Duan , Yu Yu , Shuoyao Zhao , Wei Xu

Training reliable deep learning models which avoid making overconfident but incorrect predictions is a longstanding challenge. This challenge is further exacerbated when learning has to be differentially private: protection provided to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Stephan Rabanser , Anvith Thudi , Abhradeep Thakurta , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Nicolas Papernot

Quantum private query (QPQ) is the quantum version for symmetrically private retrieval. However, the user privacy in QPQ is generally guarded in the non-realtime and cheat sensitive way. That is, the dishonest database holder's cheating to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Chun-Yan Wei , Xiao-Qiu Cai , Tian-Yin Wang

The convergence of artificial AI and XR technologies (AI XR) promises innovative applications across many domains. However, the sensitive nature of data (e.g., eye-tracking) used in these systems raises significant privacy concerns, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Ripan Kumar Kundu , Istiak Ahmed , Khaza Anuarul Hoque

The process of data mining with differential privacy produces results that are affected by two types of noise: sampling noise due to data collection and privacy noise that is designed to prevent the reconstruction of sensitive information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Yue Wang , Daniel Kifer , Jaewoo Lee

We study the application of differential privacy in hyper-parameter tuning, a crucial process in machine learning involving selecting the best hyper-parameter from several candidates. Unlike many private learning algorithms, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Chenglong Wang , Di Wang

In this paper, we develop a novel privacy mechanism for Riemannian manifold-valued data. Our key contribution lies in uncovering unexpected connections among geometric analysis, heat diffusion models, and differential privacy (DP). We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-23 Xiaotian Chang , Yangdi Jiang , Cyrus Mostajeran , Qirui Hu

During the past decade, differential privacy has become the gold standard for protecting the privacy of individuals. However, verifying that a particular program provides differential privacy often remains a manual task to be completed by…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Joseph P. Near , David Darais , Chike Abuah , Tim Stevens , Pranav Gaddamadugu , Lun Wang , Neel Somani , Mu Zhang , Nikhil Sharma , Alex Shan , Dawn Song

The leakage of data might have been an extreme effect on the personal level if it contains sensitive information. Common prevention methods like encryption-decryption, endpoint protection, intrusion detection system are prone to leakage.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Poushali Sengupta , Sudipta Paul , Subhankar Mishra

Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about the privacy of sensitive data. In response to these concerns, differential privacy has emerged as a rigorous framework for privacy protection, gaining widespread recognition in both…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Ilmun Kim , Antonin Schrab

The Gini index is a widely reported measure of income inequality. In some settings, the underlying data used to compute the Gini index are confidential. The organization charged with reporting the Gini index may be concerned that its…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-26 Wenjie Lan , Jerome P. Reiter

The shuffle model of differential privacy was proposed as a viable model for performing distributed differentially private computations. Informally, the model consists of an untrusted analyzer that receives messages sent by participating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Amos Beimel , Iftach Haitner , Kobbi Nissim , Uri Stemmer

Disclosure of data analytics results has important scientific and commercial justifications. However, no data shall be disclosed without a diligent investigation of risks for privacy of subjects. Privug is a tool-supported method to explore…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Raúl Pardo , Willard Rafnsson , Christian Probst , Andrzej Wąsowski

Differential privacy is a de facto standard in data privacy with applications in the private and public sectors. Most of the techniques that achieve differential privacy are based on a judicious use of randomness. However, reasoning about…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Gian Pietro Farina , Stephen Chong , Marco Gaboardi

Motivated by the increasing deployment of reinforcement learning in the real world, involving a large consumption of personal data, we introduce a differentially private (DP) policy gradient algorithm. We show that, in this setting, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Alexandre Rio , Merwan Barlier , Igor Colin

Differential privacy provides a formal approach to privacy of individuals. Applications of differential privacy in various scenarios, such as protecting users' original utterances, must satisfy certain mathematical properties. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Ivan Habernal

We present a framework to statistically audit the privacy guarantee conferred by a differentially private machine learner in practice. While previous works have taken steps toward evaluating privacy loss through poisoning attacks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fred Lu , Joseph Munoz , Maya Fuchs , Tyler LeBlond , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro , Brian Testa

We present CleanQ, a high-performance operating-system interface for descriptor-based data transfer with rigorous formal semantics, based on a simple, formally-verified notion of ownership transfer, with a fast reference implementation.…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Roni Haecki , Lukas Humbel , Reto Achermann , David Cock , Daniel Schwyn , Timothy Roscoe

Homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation, and differential privacy are part of an emerging class of Privacy Enhancing Technologies which share a common promise: to preserve privacy whilst also obtaining the benefits of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Nitin Agrawal , Reuben Binns , Max Van Kleek , Kim Laine , Nigel Shadbolt

The Ising model, originally developed as a spin-glass model for ferromagnetic elements, has gained popularity as a network-based model for capturing dependencies in agents' outputs. Its increasing adoption in healthcare and the social…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-31 Abhinav Chakraborty , Anirban Chatterjee , Abhinandan Dalal