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In practice, differentially private data releases are designed to support a variety of applications. A data release is fit for use if it meets target accuracy requirements for each application. In this paper, we consider the problem of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yingtai Xiao , Zeyu Ding , Yuxin Wang , Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer

Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated approach to privacy that has become a very active field of research over the last decade in theoretical computer science and machine learning. In this paradigm one assumes there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Marco Avella-Medina

Data stewards and analysts can promote transparent and trustworthy science and policy-making by facilitating assessments of the sensitivity of published results to alternate analysis choices. For example, researchers may want to assess…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-24 Chengxin Yang , Jerome P. Reiter

Emerging systems such as smart grids or intelligent transportation systems often require end-user applications to continuously send information to external data aggregators performing monitoring or control tasks. This can result in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas

The turnstile continual release model of differential privacy captures scenarios where a privacy-preserving real-time analysis is sought for a dataset evolving through additions and deletions. In typical applications of real-time data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rachel Cummings , Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Tamalika Mukherjee , Tingting Ou , Peilin Zhong

Networks are crucial components of many sectors, including telecommunications, healthcare, finance, energy, and transportation.The information carried in such networks often contains sensitive user data, like location data for commuters and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ferdinando Fioretto , Diptangshu Sen , Juba Ziani

Differential privacy offers formal quantitative guarantees for algorithms over datasets, but it assumes attackers that know and can influence all but one record in the database. This assumption often vastly overapproximates the attackers'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Damien Desfontaines , Esfandiar Mohammadi , Elisabeth Krahmer , David Basin

Motivated by privacy concerns in long-term longitudinal studies in medical and social science research, we study the problem of continually releasing differentially private synthetic data from longitudinal data collections. We introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mark Bun , Marco Gaboardi , Marcel Neunhoeffer , Wanrong Zhang

Differential privacy ensures the security of individual privacy but poses challenges to data exploration processes because the limited privacy budget incapacitates the flexibility of exploration and the noisy feedback of data requests leads…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Xumeng Wang , Shuangcheng Jiao , Chris Bryan

There are many existing differentially private algorithms for releasing histograms, i.e. counts with corresponding labels, in various settings. Our focus in this survey is to revisit some of the existing differentially private algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Ryan Rogers

The shuffle model of Differential Privacy (DP) is an enhanced privacy protocol which introduces an intermediate trusted server between local users and a central data curator. It significantly amplifies the central DP guarantee by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yixuan Liu , Yuhan Liu , Li Xiong , Yujie Gu , Hong Chen

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

The tension between persuasion and privacy preservation is common in real-world settings. Online platforms should protect the privacy of web users whose data they collect, even as they seek to disclose information about these data to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yuqi Pan , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Haifeng Xu , Shuran Zheng

A large amount of data and applications need to be shared with various parties and stakeholders in the cloud environment for storage, computation, and data utilization. Since a third party operates the cloud platform, owners cannot fully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ashutosh Kumar Singh , Rishabh Gupta

For evolving datasets with continual reports, the composition rule for differential privacy (DP) dictates that the scale of DP noise must grow linearly with the number of the queries, or that the privacy budget must be split equally between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Farhad Farokhi

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard of privacy preservation due to its strong protection and sound mathematical foundation, which is widely adopted in different applications such as big data analysis, graph data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Honglu Jiang , Yifeng Gao , S M Sarwar , Luis GarzaPerez , Mahmudul Robin

Since its introduction in 2006, differential privacy has emerged as a predominant statistical tool for quantifying data privacy in academic works. Yet despite the plethora of research and open-source utilities that have accompanied its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Xiaoyuan Liu , Florian Matthes , Dawn Song

Augmented reality (AR) or mixed reality (MR) platforms require spatial understanding to detect objects or surfaces, often including their structural (i.e. spatial geometry) and photometric (e.g. color, and texture) attributes, to allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Jaybie A. de Guzman , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Aruna Seneviratne

Local differential privacy has recently surfaced as a strong measure of privacy in contexts where personal information remains private even from data analysts. Working in a setting where both the data providers and data analysts want to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

Private collection of statistics from a large distributed population is an important problem, and has led to large scale deployments from several leading technology companies. The dominant approach requires each user to randomly perturb…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Graham Cormode , Samuel Maddock , Carsten Maple