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The work by Maddah-Ali and Niesen demonstrated the benefits in reducing the transmission rate in a noiseless broadcast network by joint design of caching and delivery schemes. In their setup, each user learns the demands of all other users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Sneha Kamath

We derive the optimal $\epsilon$-differentially private mechanism for single real-valued query function under a very general utility-maximization (or cost-minimization) framework. The class of noise probability distributions in the optimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-10-31 Quan Geng , Pramod Viswanath

State estimation is routinely being performed in high-voltage power transmission grids in order to assist in operation and to detect faulty equipment. In low- and medium-voltage power distribution grids, on the other hand, few real-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Henrik Sandberg , György Dán , Ragnar Thobaben

We consider a problem where mutually untrusting curators possess portions of a vertically partitioned database containing information about a set of individuals. The goal is to enable an authorized party to obtain aggregate (statistical)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Bing-Rong Lin , Ye Wang , Shantanu Rane

We study the problem of estimating $k$-ary distributions under $\varepsilon$-local differential privacy. $n$ samples are distributed across users who send privatized versions of their sample to a central server. All previously known sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Jayadev Acharya , Ziteng Sun , Huanyu Zhang

We study goodness-of-fit and independence testing of discrete distributions in a setting where samples are distributed across multiple users. The users wish to preserve the privacy of their data while enabling a central server to perform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Jayadev Acharya , Clément L. Canonne , Cody Freitag , Ziteng Sun , Himanshu Tyagi

We consider non-parametric density estimation in the framework of local approximate differential privacy. In contrast to centralized privacy scenarios with a trusted curator, in the local setup anonymization must be guaranteed already on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Martin Kroll

We study the private $k$-median and $k$-means clustering problem in $d$ dimensional Euclidean space. By leveraging tree embeddings, we give an efficient and easy to implement algorithm, that is empirically competitive with state of the art…

We introduce general tools for designing efficient private estimation algorithms, in the high-dimensional settings, whose statistical guarantees almost match those of the best known non-private algorithms. To illustrate our techniques, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Hongjie Chen , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Tommaso d'Orsi , Alessandro Epasto , Jacob Imola , David Steurer , Stefan Tiegel

Differentially private distributed stochastic optimization has become a hot topic due to the urgent need of privacy protection in distributed stochastic optimization. In this paper, two-time scale stochastic approximation-type algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

Most differentially private (DP) algorithms assume a central model in which a reliable third party inserts noise to queries made on datasets, or a local model where the users locally perturb their data. However, the central model is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Sayan Biswas , Kangsoo Jung , Catuscia Palamidessi

Differential privacy is a recent notion of privacy for statistical databases that provides rigorous, meaningful confidentiality guarantees, even in the presence of an attacker with access to arbitrary side information. We show that for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Adam Smith

In recent years, differential privacy has been adopted by tech-companies and governmental agencies as the standard for measuring privacy in algorithms. In this article, we study differential privacy in Bayesian posterior sampling settings.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Shenggang Hu , Louis Aslett , Hongsheng Dai , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts

Differential privacy enables organizations to collect accurate aggregates over sensitive data with strong, rigorous guarantees on individuals' privacy. Previous work has found that under differential privacy, computing multiple correlated…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Ganzhao Yuan , Yin Yang , Zhenjie Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

This paper studies the design of an optimal privacyaware estimator of a public random variable based on noisy measurements which contain private information. The public random variable carries non-private information, however, its estimate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-08 Ehsan Nekouei , Henrik Sandberg , Mikael Skoglund , Karl H. Johansson

We develop a theory of asymptotic efficiency in regular parametric models when data confidentiality is ensured by local differential privacy (LDP). Even though efficient parameter estimation is a classical and well-studied problem in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Lukas Steinberger

We study the problem of estimating finite sample confidence intervals of the mean of a normal population under the constraint of differential privacy. We consider both the known and unknown variance cases and construct differentially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-13 Vishesh Karwa , Salil Vadhan

We consider the problem of clustering privately a dataset in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that undergoes both insertion and deletion of points. Specifically, we give an $\varepsilon$-differentially private clustering mechanism for the $k$-means objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Max Dupré la Tour , Monika Henzinger , David Saulpic

We develop both theory and algorithms to analyze privatized data in unbounded differential privacy (DP), where even the sample size is considered a sensitive quantity that requires privacy protection. We show that the distance between the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Jordan Awan , Andres Felipe Barrientos , Nianqiao Ju

We investigate a problem of finding the minimum, in which each user has a real value and we want to estimate the minimum of these values under the local differential privacy constraint. We reveal that this problem is fundamentally…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Kazuto Fukuchi , Chia-Mu Yu , Arashi Haishima , Jun Sakuma