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We study a statistical signal processing privacy problem, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ and wants to reveal the information to a user. Since the useful data is correlated with the private data $X$, the agent employs a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Crowdsourced data used in machine learning services might carry sensitive information about attributes that users do not want to share. Various methods have been proposed to minimize the potential information leakage of sensitive attributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Han Zhao , Jianfeng Chi , Yuan Tian , Geoffrey J. Gordon

An information-theoretic privacy mechanism design is studied, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ which is correlated with the private data $X$. The agent wants to reveal the information to a user, hence, the agent utilizes a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Amirreza Zamani , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund

This paper considers secret-key generation between several agents and a base station that observe independent and identically distributed realizations of correlated random variables. Each agent wishes to generate the longest possible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Remi A. Chou , Aylin Yener

Recommendation systems are information-filtering systems that tailor information to users on the basis of knowledge about their preferences. The ability of these systems to profile users is what enables such intelligent functionality, but…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Javier Parra-Arnau , David Rebollo-Monedero , Jordi Forné

Secret-key agreement based on biometric or physical identifiers is a promising security protocol for authenticating users or devices with small chips due to its lightweight security. In previous studies, the fundamental limits of such a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Vamoua Yachongka , Hideki Yagi , Hideki Ochiai

We study statistical risk minimization problems under a privacy model in which the data is kept confidential even from the learner. In this local privacy framework, we establish sharp upper and lower bounds on the convergence rates of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-11 John C. Duchi , Michael I. Jordan , Martin J. Wainwright

The design of a statistical signal processing privacy problem is studied where the private data is assumed to be observable. In this work, an agent observes useful data $Y$, which is correlated with private data $X$, and wants to disclose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

The prevalence of biometric authentication has been on the rise due to its ease of use and elimination of weak passwords. To date, most biometric authentication systems have been designed for on-device authentication of the device owner…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexander Bienstock , Daniel Escudero , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Zhen Zeng , Pranav Bhat , Ashok Singal , Prashant Sharma , Manuela Veloso

Biometrics involves using unique human traits, both physical and behavioral, for the digital identification of individuals to provide access to systems, devices, or information. Within the field of computer science, it acts as a method for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Sajjad Bhuiyan

Most methods for publishing data with privacy guarantees introduce randomness into datasets which reduces the utility of the published data. In this paper, we study the privacy-utility tradeoff by taking maximal leakage as the privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Sara Saeidian , Giulia Cervia , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

We consider secret key generation from relative localization information of a pair of nodes in a mobile wireless network in the presence of a mobile eavesdropper. Our problem can be categorized under the source models of information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Onur Gungor , Fangzhou Chen , C. Emre Koksal

This paper investigates the secret key generation in the multiterminal source model, where users observing correlated sources discuss interactively under limited rates to agree on a secret key. We focus on a class of sources representable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Qiaoqiao Zhou , Chung Chan

Nowadays, facial recognition systems are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. These attacks vary from simple perturbations of the input image to modifying the parameters of the recognition model to impersonate an authorised subject.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Daile Osorio-Roig , Mahdi Ghafourian , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Christoph Busch , Julian Fierrez

User privacy can be compromised by matching user data traces to records of their previous behavior. The matching of the statistical characteristics of traces to prior user behavior has been widely studied. However, an adversary can also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Bo Guan , Nazanin Takbiri , Dennis Goeckel , Amir Houmansadr , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Among the various means of available resource protection including biometrics, password based system is most simple, user friendly, cost effective and commonly used. But this method having high sensitivity with attacks. Most of the advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-10-13 Manoj Kumar Singh

The inevitable leakage of privacy as a result of unrestrained disclosure of personal information has motivated extensive research on robust privacy-preserving mechanisms. However, existing research is mostly limited to solving the problem…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Chandra Sharma , George Amariucai , Shuangqing Wei

We study covert communication and covert secret key generation with positive rates over quantum state-dependent channels. Specifically, we consider fully quantum state-dependent channels when the transmitter shares an entangled state with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Hassan ZivariFard , Rémi A. Chou , Xiaodong Wang

Inference centers need more data to have a more comprehensive and beneficial learning model, and for this purpose, they need to collect data from data providers. On the other hand, data providers are cautious about delivering their datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Mohammad Ali Jamshidi , Hadi Veisi , Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedian , Mohammad Reza Aref

We study an information-theoretic privacy mechanism design, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ and wants to reveal the information to a user. Since the useful data is correlated with the private data $X$, the agent uses a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Amirreza Zamani , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund