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Graph clustering under the framework of differential privacy, which aims to process graph-structured data while protecting individual privacy, has been receiving increasing attention. Despite significant achievements in current research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Haochen You , Baojing Liu

We envision AI marketplaces to be platforms where consumers, with very less data for a target task, can obtain a relevant model by accessing many private data sources with vast number of data samples. One of the key challenges is to…

A key factor in developing high performing machine learning models is the availability of sufficiently large datasets. This work is motivated by applications arising in Software as a Service (SaaS) companies where there exist numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Sophia Collet , Robert Dadashi , Zahi N. Karam , Chang Liu , Parinaz Sobhani , Yevgeniy Vahlis , Ji Chao Zhang

Differentially private data generation techniques have become a promising solution to the data privacy challenge -- it enables sharing of data while complying with rigorous privacy guarantees, which is essential for scientific progress in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

Federated learning has been spotlighted as a way to train neural networks using distributed data with no need for individual nodes to share data. Unfortunately, it has also been shown that adversaries may be able to extract local data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Beongjun Choi , Jy-yong Sohn , Dong-Jun Han , Jaekyun Moon

We introduce $\pi$-test, a privacy-preserving algorithm for testing statistical independence between data distributed across multiple parties. Our algorithm relies on privately estimating the distance correlation between datasets, a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Praneeth Vepakomma , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Clément L. Canonne , Ramesh Raskar , Alex Pentland

With the recent bloom of data, there is a huge surge in threats against individuals' private information. Various techniques for optimizing privacy-preserving data analysis are at the focus of research in the recent years. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Sayan Biswas , Graham Cormode , Carsten Maple

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

Although distributed Gaussian process regression (GPR) enables multiple agents with separate datasets to jointly learn a model of the target function, its collaborative nature poses risks of private data leakage. To address this, we propose…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Yeongjun Jang , Kaoru Teranishi , Jihoon Suh , Takashi Tanaka

We study the problem of differentially private clustering under input-stability assumptions. Despite the ever-growing volume of works on differential privacy in general and differentially private clustering in particular, only three works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Moshe Shechner

The simplest and most widely applied method for guaranteeing differential privacy is to add instance-independent noise to a statistic of interest that is scaled to its global sensitivity. However, global sensitivity is a worst-case notion…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Mark Bun , Thomas Steinke

This paper presents Prio, a privacy-preserving system for the collection of aggregate statistics. Each Prio client holds a private data value (e.g., its current location), and a small set of servers compute statistical functions over the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Henry Corrigan-Gibbs , Dan Boneh

Secret sharing is an instrumental tool for sharing secret keys in distributed systems. In a classical threshold setting, this involves a dealer who has a secret/key, a set of parties/users to which shares of the secret are sent, and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Utkarsh Gupta , Hessam Mahdavifar

In decentralized networks, nodes cannot ensure that their shared information will be securely preserved by their neighbors, making privacy vulnerable to inference by curious nodes. Adding calibrated random noise before communication to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yiming Zhou , Kaiping Xue , Enhong Chen

We study privacy in a distributed learning framework, where clients collaboratively build a learning model iteratively through interactions with a server from whom we need privacy. Motivated by stochastic optimization and the federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Antonious M. Girgis , Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms protect individual-level information by introducing randomness into the statistical analysis procedure. Despite the availability of numerous DP tools, there remains a lack of general techniques for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-25 Zhanyu Wang , Guang Cheng , Jordan Awan

Recent work in differential privacy has highlighted the shuffled model as a promising avenue to compute accurate statistics while keeping raw data in users' hands. We present a protocol in this model that estimates histograms with error…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Victor Balcer , Albert Cheu

Complex event processing (CEP) is a powerful and increasingly more important tool to analyse data streams for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. These data streams often contain private information that requires proper protection.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-12 He Gu , Thomas Plagemann , Maik Benndorf , Vera Goebel , Boris Koldehofe

We consider the problem of privately estimating the mean of vectors distributed across different nodes of an unreliable wireless network, where communications between nodes can fail intermittently. We adopt a semi-decentralized setup,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-07 Rajarshi Saha , Mohamed Seif , Michal Yemini , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of clustering privately a dataset in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that undergoes both insertion and deletion of points. Specifically, we give an $\varepsilon$-differentially private clustering mechanism for the $k$-means objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Max Dupré la Tour , Monika Henzinger , David Saulpic