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Rigorous privacy mechanisms that can cope with dynamic data are required to encourage a wider adoption of large-scale monitoring and decision systems relying on end-user information. A promising approach to develop these mechanisms is to…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Jerome Le Ny

We introduce the multi-dimensional Skellam mechanism, a discrete differential privacy mechanism based on the difference of two independent Poisson random variables. To quantify its privacy guarantees, we analyze the privacy loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Naman Agarwal , Peter Kairouz , Ziyu Liu

In order to remain competitive, Internet companies collect and analyse user data for the purpose of improving user experiences. Frequency estimation is a widely used statistical tool which could potentially conflict with the relevant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mengmeng Yang , Ivan Tjuawinata , Kwok-Yan Lam , Tianqing Zhu , Jun Zhao

Recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has been adopted by many web service providers like Google \cite{erlingsson2014rappor}, Apple \cite{apple2017privacy} and Microsoft \cite{bolin2017telemetry} to collect and analyse users' data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhongzheng Xiong , Jialin Sun , Xiaojun Mao , Jian Wang , Shan Ying , Zengfeng Huang

We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes visible to a service provider while maintaining high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Peter Kairouz , Stefan Mellem , Adrià Gascón , Kallista Bonawitz , Deborah Estrin , Marco Gruteser

As large amounts of data are circulated both from users to a cloud server and between users, there is a critical need for privately aggregating the shared data. This paper considers the problem of private weighted sum aggregation with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Andreea B. Alexandru , George J. Pappas

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 present a quantum protocol which securely and implicitly implements a random shuffle to realize differential privacy in the shuffle model. The shuffle model of differential privacy amplifies privacy achievable via local differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Hassan Jameel Asghar , Arghya Mukherjee , Gavin K. Brennen

This paper proposes a differentially private gradient-tracking-based distributed stochastic optimization algorithm over directed graphs. In particular, privacy noises are incorporated into each agent's state and tracking variable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Jialong Chen , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

We consider a private distributed multiplication problem involving N computation nodes and T colluding nodes. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm provides perfect information-theoretic privacy, while requiring an honest majority, i.e., N \ge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

For a dataset of label-count pairs, an anonymized histogram is the multiset of counts. Anonymized histograms appear in various potentially sensitive contexts such as password-frequency lists, degree distribution in social networks, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ananda Theertha Suresh

This paper considers the privacy-preserving Nash equilibrium seeking strategy design for a class of networked aggregative games, in which the players' objective functions are considered to be sensitive information to be protected. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-26 Maojiao Ye , Guoqiang Hu , Lihua Xie , Shengyuan Xu

One goal of statistical privacy research is to construct a data release mechanism that protects individual privacy while preserving information content. An example is a {\em random mechanism} that takes an input database $X$ and outputs a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-11 Larry Wasserman , Shuheng Zhou

Numerical linear algebra plays an important role in computer science. In this paper, we initiate the study of performing linear algebraic tasks while preserving privacy when the data is streamed online. Our main focus is the space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jalaj Upadhyay

This paper presents a novel methodology to test the security of the Diffie-Hellman public key exchange protocol. The security of many cryptographic schemes rely on the hardness of this problem. We are presenting a purely statistical test to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 I. Florescu , A. Myasnikov , A. Mahalanobis

Privacy-preserving estimation of counts of items in streaming data finds applications in several real-world scenarios including word auto-correction and traffic management applications. Recent works of RAPPOR and Apple's count-mean sketch…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Dinusha Vatsalan , Raghav Bhaskar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

We systematically investigate the preservation of differential privacy in functional data analysis, beginning with functional mean estimation and extending to varying coefficient model estimation. Our work introduces a distributed learning…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Gengyu Xue , Zhenhua Lin , Yi Yu

Learning from data owned by several parties, as in federated learning, raises challenges regarding the privacy guarantees provided to participants and the correctness of the computation in the presence of malicious parties. We tackle these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-31 César Sabater , Aurélien Bellet , Jan Ramon

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

Large-scale collection of contextual information is often essential in order to gather statistics, train machine learning models, and extract knowledge from data. The ability to do so in a {\em privacy-preserving} way -- i.e., without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Luca Melis , George Danezis , Emiliano De Cristofaro