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A lossy source coding problem with privacy constraint is studied in which two correlated discrete sources $X$ and $Y$ are compressed into a reconstruction $\hat{X}$ with some prescribed distortion $D$. In addition, a privacy constraint is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-23 Farshid Mokhtarinezhad , Joerg Kliewer , Osvaldo Simeone

We study $L_2$ mean estimation under central differential privacy and communication constraints, and address two key challenges: firstly, existing mean estimation schemes that simultaneously handle both constraints are usually optimized for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Wei-Ning Chen , Berivan Isik , Peter Kairouz , Albert No , Sewoong Oh , Zheng Xu

In this paper, we first present a volumetric privacy measure for dynamical systems with bounded disturbances, wherein the states of the system contain private information and an adversary with access to sensor measurements attempts to infer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Chuanghong Weng , Ehsan Nekouei

Privacy-preserving average consensus aims to guarantee the privacy of initial states and asymptotic consensus on the exact average of the initial value. In existing work, it is achieved by adding and subtracting variance decaying and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Chengcheng Zhao , Peng Cheng , Xinping Guan

We propose an optimal MMSE precoding technique using quantized signals with constant envelope. Unlike the existing MMSE design that relies on 1-bit resolution, the proposed approach employs uniform phase quantization and the bounding step…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Erico S. P. Lopes , Lukas T. N. Landau

Preserving privacy of continuous and/or high-dimensional data such as images, videos and audios, can be challenging with syntactic anonymization methods which are designed for discrete attributes. Differential privacy, which provides a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Jihun Hamm

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

So far, there have been plenty of literatures on the metric in the space of probability distributions and quantum states. As for channels, however, only a little had been known. In this paper, we impose monotonicity by concatenation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-03 Keiji Matsumoto

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

We consider the estimation of a density at a fixed point under a local differential privacy constraint, where the observations are anonymised before being available for statistical inference. We propose both a privatised version of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Sandra Schluttenhofer , Jan Johannes

Differential privacy has become a widely accepted notion of privacy, leading to the introduction and deployment of numerous privatization mechanisms. However, ensuring the privacy guarantee is an error-prone process, both in designing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Xiyang Liu , Sewoong Oh

Objective estimators of multimedia quality are often judged by comparing estimates with subjective "truth data," most often via Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) or mean-squared error (MSE). But subjective test results contain noise, so…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-16 Jaden Pieper , Stephen D. Voran

We study the problem of computing the privacy parameters for DP machine learning when using privacy amplification via random batching and noise correlated across rounds via a correlation matrix $\textbf{C}$ (i.e., the matrix mechanism).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Arun Ganesh , Saminul Haque , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

Data privacy is a central concern in many applications involving ranking from incomplete and noisy pairwise comparisons, such as recommendation systems, educational assessments, and opinion surveys on sensitive topics. In this work, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Yichen Wang

We study a regression problem where for some part of the data we observe both the label variable ($Y$) and the predictors (${\bf X}$), while for other part of the data only the predictors are given. Such a problem arises, for example, when…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-14 David Azriel , Lawrence D. Brown , Michael Sklar , Richard Berk , Andreas Buja , Linda Zhao

An information-theoretic confidential communication is achievable if the eavesdropper has a degraded channel compared to the legitimate receiver. In wireless channels, beamforming and artificial noise can enable such confidentiality.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Stefan Roth , Aydin Sezgin

We analyze a cost-minimization problem in which the controller relies on an imperfect timeseries forecast. Forecasting models generate imperfect forecasts because they use anonymization noise to protect input data privacy. However, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-10 Po-han Li , Sandeep P. Chinchali , Ufuk Topcu

Pointwise maximal leakage (PML) is a per-outcome privacy measure based on threat models from quantitative information flow. Privacy guarantees with PML rely on knowledge about the distribution that generated the private data. In this work,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Leonhard Grosse , Sara Saeidian , Mikael Skoglund , Tobias J. Oechtering

A deterministic privacy metric using non-stochastic information theory is developed. Particularly, minimax information is used to construct a measure of information leakage, which is inversely proportional to the measure of privacy. Anyone…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Farhad Farokhi

In a survey disclosure model, we consider an additive noise privacy mechanism and study the trade-off between privacy guarantees and statistical utility. Privacy is approached from two different but complementary viewpoints: information and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Mario Diaz , Shahab Asoodeh , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder , Serban Belinschi , James Mingo