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Differential Privacy (DP) is the current gold-standard for ensuring privacy for statistical queries. Estimation problems under DP constraints appearing in the literature have largely focused on providing equal privacy to all users. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

A privacy-utility tradeoff is developed for an arbitrary set of finite-alphabet source distributions. Privacy is quantified using differential privacy (DP), and utility is quantified using expected Hamming distortion maximized over the set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Kousha Kalantari , Lalitha Sankar , Anand Sarwate

The purpose of this paper is to develop a mathematical analysis theory to solve differential privacy problems. The heart of our approaches is to use analytic tools to characterize the correlations among the outputs of different datasets,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Genqiang Wu , Xianyao Xia , Yeping He

Firms and statistical agencies must protect the privacy of the individuals whose data they collect, analyze, and publish. Increasingly, these organizations do so by using publication mechanisms that satisfy differential privacy. We consider…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-07-04 Ian M. Schmutte , Nathan Yoder

Differential Privacy (DP) is a well-established framework to quantify privacy loss incurred by any algorithm. Traditional DP formulations impose a uniform privacy requirement for all users, which is often inconsistent with real-world…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

Differential privacy (DP) is a class of mathematical standards for assessing the privacy provided by a data-release mechanism. This work concerns two important flavors of DP that are related yet conceptually distinct: pure…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-08-22 James Bailie , Ruobin Gong

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Pufferfish privacy (PP) is a generalization of differential privacy (DP), that offers flexibility in specifying sensitive information and integrates domain knowledge into the privacy definition. Inspired by the illuminating formulation of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Theshani Nuradha , Ziv Goldfeld

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a robust framework for privacy-preserving data releases and has been successfully applied in high-profile cases, such as the 2020 US Census. However, in organizational settings, the use of DP remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nicolas Küchler , Alexander Viand , Hidde Lycklama , Anwar Hithnawi

Differential Privacy has become a widely popular method for data protection in machine learning, especially since it allows formulating strict mathematical privacy guarantees. This survey provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lea Demelius , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

Attacks that aim to identify the training data of public neural networks represent a severe threat to the privacy of individuals participating in the training data set. A possible protection is offered by anonymization of the training data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Daniel Bernau , Philip-William Grassal , Jonas Robl , Florian Kerschbaum

OpenData movement around the globe is demanding more access to information which lies locked in public or private servers. As recently reported by a McKinsey publication, this data has significant economic value, yet its release has…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-05-15 David Leoni

Over the last decade there have been great strides made in developing techniques to compute functions privately. In particular, Differential Privacy gives strong promises about conclusions that can be drawn about an individual. In contrast,…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Graham Cormode

The literature on differential privacy almost invariably assumes that the data to be analyzed are fully observed. In most practical applications this is an unrealistic assumption. A popular strategy to address this problem is imputation, in…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Soumojit Das , Jorg Drechsler , Keith Merrill , Shawn Merrill

When sharing sensitive relational databases with other parties, a database owner aims to (i) have privacy guarantees for the database entries, (ii) have liability guarantees (via fingerprinting) in case of unauthorized sharing of its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Tianxi Ji , Erman Ayday , Emre Yilmaz , Pan Li

We show a new lower bound on the sample complexity of $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithms that accurately answer statistical queries on high-dimensional databases. The novelty of our bound is that it depends optimally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

How to achieve differential privacy in the distributed setting, where the dataset is distributed among the distrustful parties, is an important problem. We consider in what condition can a protocol inherit the differential privacy property…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Genqiang Wu , Yeping He , Jingzheng Wu , Xianyao Xia

For small privacy parameter $\epsilon$, $\epsilon$-differential privacy (DP) provides a strong worst-case guarantee that no membership inference attack (MIA) can succeed at determining whether a person's data was used to train a machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Andrew Lowy , Zhuohang Li , Jing Liu , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Kieran Parsons , Ye Wang

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

Differential privacy (DP) enables private data analysis. In a typical DP deployment, controllers manage individuals' sensitive data and are responsible for answering analysts' queries while protecting individuals' privacy. They do so by…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiru Zhu , Raul Castro Fernandez