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Since being proposed in 2006, differential privacy has become a standard method for quantifying certain risks in publishing or sharing analyses of sensitive data. At its heart, differential privacy measures risk in terms of the differences…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Anand D. Sarwate , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

Linear programming is a fundamental tool in a wide range of decision systems. However, without privacy protections, sharing the solution to a linear program may reveal information about the underlying data used to formulate it, which may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Alexander Benvenuti , Brendan Bialy , Miriam Dennis , Matthew Hale

Differential Privacy can provide provable privacy guarantees for training data in machine learning. However, the presence of proofs does not preclude the presence of errors. Inspired by recent advances in auditing which have been used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Florian Tramer , Andreas Terzis , Thomas Steinke , Shuang Song , Matthew Jagielski , Nicholas Carlini

Black-box machine learning models are used in critical decision-making domains, giving rise to several calls for more algorithmic transparency. The drawback is that model explanations can leak information about the training data and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Neel Patel , Reza Shokri , Yair Zick

To protect user privacy in data analysis, a state-of-the-art strategy is differential privacy in which scientific noise is injected into the real analysis output. The noise masks individual's sensitive information contained in the dataset.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Xuan-Son Vu , Lili Jiang

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

The rapid rise of IoT and Big Data has facilitated copious data driven applications to enhance our quality of life. However, the omnipresent and all-encompassing nature of the data collection can generate privacy concerns. Hence, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Mert Al , Semih Yagli , Sun-Yuan Kung

In many practical applications of differential privacy, practitioners seek to provide the best privacy guarantees subject to a target level of accuracy. A recent line of work by Ligett et al. '17 and Whitehouse et al. '22 has developed such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ryan Rogers , Gennady Samorodnitsky , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Aaditya Ramdas

The process of data mining with differential privacy produces results that are affected by two types of noise: sampling noise due to data collection and privacy noise that is designed to prevent the reconstruction of sensitive information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Yue Wang , Daniel Kifer , Jaewoo Lee

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees for machine learning applications. Much recent work has been focused on developing differentially private models, however there has been a gap in other stages of the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ashly Lau , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

Differential privacy is becoming one gold standard for protecting the privacy of publicly shared data. It has been widely used in social science, data science, public health, information technology, and the U.S. decennial census.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xuan Bi , Xiaotong Shen

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. However, alongside all its advancements, problems have also emerged, such as privacy violations, security issues and model fairness. Differential privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Wei Wang , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki

Differential privacy is a restriction on data processing algorithms that provides strong confidentiality guarantees for individual records in the data. However, research on proper statistical inference, that is, research on properly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Joerg Drechsler , Ira Globus-Harris , Audra McMillan , Jayshree Sarathy , Adam Smith

Distributed online learning is gaining increased traction due to its unique ability to process large-scale datasets and streaming data. To address the growing public awareness and concern on privacy protection, plenty of algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

Differential privacy is a leading protection setting, focused by design on individual privacy. Many applications, in medical / pharmaceutical domains or social networks, rather posit privacy at a group level, a setting we call integral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-04 Hisham Husain , Zac Cranko , Richard Nock

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for developing statistical computations with provable guarantees of privacy and accuracy. In contrast to the privacy component of differential privacy, which has a clear mathematical and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Gilles Barthe , Rohit Chadha , Paul Krogmeier , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

Privacy protection and uncertainty quantification are increasingly important in data-driven decision making. Conformal prediction provides finite-sample marginal coverage, but existing private approaches often rely on data splitting,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Young Hyun Cho , Jordan Awan