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The need to analyze sensitive data, such as medical records or financial data, has created a critical research challenge in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the framework of differential privacy, and explore mechanisms for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nikolija Bojkovic , Po-Ling Loh

We present a distributed optimization protocol that preserves statistical privacy of agents' local cost functions against a passive adversary that corrupts some agents in the network. The protocol is a composition of a distributed ``{\em…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Nirupam Gupta , Shripad Gade , Nikhil Chopra , Nitin H. Vaidya

Secure sum computation of private data inputs is an interesting example of Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) which has attracted many researchers to devise secure protocols with lower probability of data leakage. In this paper, we provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data is used in $k$ steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of $t$ steps. This sampling scheme has been recently applied in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Vitaly Feldman , Moshe Shenfeld

In this paper, we propose a practically efficient model for securely computing rank-based statistics, e.g., median, percentiles and quartiles, over distributed datasets in the malicious setting without leaking individual data privacy. Based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Nan Wang , Sid Chi-Kin Chau

Nonlinear aggregation is central to modern distributed systems, yet its privacy behavior is far less understood than that of linear aggregation. Unlike linear aggregation where mature mechanisms can often suppress information leakage,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Wenrui Yu , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Qiongxiu Li

This paper studies how a system operator and a set of agents securely execute a distributed projected gradient-based algorithm. In particular, each participant holds a set of problem coefficients and/or states whose values are private to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Yang Lu , Minghui Zhu

In this paper, we study the problem of publishing a stream of real-valued data satisfying differential privacy (DP). One major challenge is that the maximal possible value can be quite large; thus it is necessary to estimate a threshold so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Tianhao Wang , Joann Qiongna Chen , Zhikun Zhang , Dong Su , Yueqiang Cheng , Zhou Li , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) can improve the security and privacy of data owners while allowing analysts to perform high quality analytics. Secure aggregation is a secure distributed mechanism to support federated deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Timothy Stevens , Joseph Near , Christian Skalka

In data-driven applications, preserving user privacy while enabling valuable computations remains a critical challenge. Technologies like differential privacy have been pivotal in addressing these concerns. The shuffle model of DP requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shaowei Wang , Changyu Dong , Xiangfu Song , Jin Li , Zhili Zhou , Di Wang , Han Wu

Densest subgraph detection is a fundamental graph mining problem, with a large number of applications. There has been a lot of work on efficient algorithms for finding the densest subgraph in massive networks. However, in many domains, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

We consider the problem of computing an aggregation function in a \emph{secure} and \emph{scalable} way. Whereas previous distributed solutions with similar security guarantees have a communication cost of $O(n^3)$, we present a distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Sebastien Gambs , Rachid Guerraoui , Hamza Harkous , Florian Huc , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

How to achieve differential privacy in the distributed setting, where the dataset is distributed among the distrustful parties, is an important problem. We consider in what condition can a protocol inherit the differential privacy property…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Genqiang Wu , Yeping He , Jingzheng Wu , Xianyao Xia

Sequential change-point detection seeks to rapidly identify distributional changes in streaming data while controlling false alarms. Existing multi-stream detection methods typically rely on non-private access to raw observations or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lixing Zhang , Liyan Xie , Ruizhi Zhang

Normalizing flow models have risen as a popular solution to the problem of density estimation, enabling high-quality synthetic data generation as well as exact probability density evaluation. However, in contexts where individuals are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Chris Waites , Rachel Cummings

While differentially private synthetic data generation has been explored extensively in the literature, how to update this data in the future if the underlying private data changes is much less understood. We propose an algorithmic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Girish Kumar , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

The shuffle model of differential privacy (DP) offers compelling privacy-utility trade-offs in decentralized settings (e.g., internet of things, mobile edge networks). Particularly, the multi-message shuffle model, where each user may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaowei Wang , Hongqiao Chen , Sufen Zeng , Ruilin Yang , Hui Jiang , Peigen Ye , Kaiqi Yu , Rundong Mei , Shaozheng Huang , Wei Yang , Bangzhou Xin

The population protocol model introduced by Angluin et al. in 2006 offers a theoretical framework for designing and analyzing distributed algorithms among limited-resource mobile agents. While the original population protocol model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Talley Amir , James Aspnes

Distributed stochastic optimization enables multi-agent collaboration in applications such as distributed learning and sensor networks, but also raises critical privacy concerns due to the involvement of sensitive data. While existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-24 Haoqiang Zhou , Chi Chen , Yongfeng Zhi , Huan Gao