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The availability of rich and vast data sources has greatly advanced machine learning applications in various domains. However, data with privacy concerns comes with stringent regulations that frequently prohibited data access and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

As the utilization of network traces for the network measurement research becomes increasingly prevalent, concerns regarding privacy leakage from network traces have garnered the public's attention. To safeguard network traces, researchers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Danyu Sun , Joann Qiongna Chen , Chen Gong , Tianhao Wang , Zhou Li

Stakeholders in electricity delivery infrastructure are amassing data about their system demand, use, and operations. Still, they are reluctant to share them, as even sharing aggregated or anonymized electric grid data risks the disclosure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Nikhil Ravi , Anna Scaglione , Julieta Giraldez , Parth Pradhan , Chuck Moran , Sean Peisert

Data is used widely by service providers as input to inference systems to perform decision making for authorized tasks. The raw data however allows a service provider to infer other sensitive information it has not been authorized for. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Chong Xiao Wang , Wee Peng Tay

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely-accepted and widely-applied notion of privacy based on worst-case analysis. Often, DP classifies most mechanisms without additive noise as non-private (Dwork et al., 2014). Thus, additive noises are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ao Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Lirong Xia

Differential privacy (DP) is increasingly used to protect the release of hierarchical, tabular population data, such as census data. A common approach for implementing DP in this setting is to release noisy responses to a predefined set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Aadyaa Maddi , Swadhin Routray , Alexander Goldberg , Giulia Fanti

As data-driven and AI-based decision making gains widespread adoption across disciplines, it is crucial that both data privacy and decision fairness are appropriately addressed. Although differential privacy (DP) provides a robust framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Spencer Giddens , Xiaon Lang , Fang Liu

Bayesian inference has great promise for the privacy-preserving analysis of sensitive data, as posterior sampling automatically preserves differential privacy, an algorithmic notion of data privacy, under certain conditions (Dimitrakakis et…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-10 James Foulds , Joseph Geumlek , Max Welling , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

Modern machine learning models heavily rely on large datasets that often include sensitive and private information, raising serious privacy concerns. Differentially private (DP) data generation offers a solution by creating synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Runkai Zheng , Vishnu Asutosh Dasu , Yinong Oliver Wang , Haohan Wang , Fernando De la Torre

Deep neural networks with their large number of parameters are highly flexible learning systems. The high flexibility in such networks brings with some serious problems such as overfitting, and regularization is used to address this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-20 Beyza Ermis , Ali Taylan Cemgil

Much of the research in differential privacy has focused on offline applications with the assumption that all data is available at once. When these algorithms are applied in practice to streams where data is collected over time, this either…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Girish Kumar , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

Statistical agencies utilize models to synthesize respondent-level data for release to the public for privacy protection. In this work, we efficiently induce privacy protection into any Bayesian synthesis model by employing a pseudo…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-02 Jingchen Hu , Terrance D. Savitsky , Matthew R. Williams

Graph data is used in a wide range of applications, while analyzing graph data without protection is prone to privacy breach risks. To mitigate the privacy risks, we resort to the standard technique of differential privacy to publish a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Quan Yuan , Zhikun Zhang , Linkang Du , Min Chen , Peng Cheng , Mingyang Sun

Using real-world study data usually requires contractual agreements where research results may only be published in anonymized form. Requiring formal privacy guarantees, such as differential privacy, could be helpful for data-driven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jonas Allmann , Saskia Nuñez von Voigt , Florian Tschorsch

Generative models trained with Differential Privacy (DP) can be used to generate synthetic data while minimizing privacy risks. We analyze the impact of DP on these models vis-a-vis underrepresented classes/subgroups of data, specifically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Georgi Ganev , Bristena Oprisanu , Emiliano De Cristofaro

In decision-making problems, the actions of an agent may reveal sensitive information that drives its decisions. For instance, a corporation's investment decisions may reveal its sensitive knowledge about market dynamics. To prevent this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Parham Gohari , Matthew Hale , Ufuk Topcu

The sensitivity metric in differential privacy, which is informally defined as the largest marginal change in output between neighboring databases, is of substantial significance in determining the accuracy of private data analyses.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Rachel Cummings , David Durfee

Differential privacy comes equipped with multiple analytical tools for the design of private data analyses. One important tool is the so-called "privacy amplification by subsampling" principle, which ensures that a differentially private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Borja Balle , Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi