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The problem of publishing privacy-guaranteed data for hypothesis testing is studied using the maximal leakage (ML) as a metric for privacy and the type-II error exponent as the utility metric. The optimal mechanism (random mapping) that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Jiachun Liao , Lalitha Sankar , Flavio P. Calmon , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We study an information-theoretic privacy mechanism design problem, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ that is arbitrarily correlated with sensitive data $X$, and design disclosed data $U$ generated from $Y$ (the agent has no direct…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Amirreza Zamani , Sajad Daei , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund

We study the Densest Subgraph (DSG) problem under the additional constraint of differential privacy. DSG is a fundamental theoretical question which plays a central role in graph analytics, and so privacy is a natural requirement. All known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Michael Dinitz , Satyen Kale , Silvio Lattanzi , Sergei Vassilvitskii

As the analytic tools become more powerful, and more data are generated on a daily basis, the issue of data privacy arises. This leads to the study of the design of privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms. Given two objectives,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Thee Chanyaswad , J. Morris Chang , S. Y. Kung

We consider a new formulation of a class of synchronization error channels and derive analytical bounds and numerical estimates for the capacity of these channels. For the binary channel with only deletions, we obtain an expression for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Aravind R. Iyengar , Paul H. Siegel , Jack K. Wolf

A private compression design problem is studied, where an encoder observes useful data $Y$, wishes to compress it using variable length code and communicates it through an unsecured channel. Since $Y$ is correlated with private data $X$,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

This paper considers the problem of multi-server Private Linear Computation, under the joint and individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, identical copies of a dataset comprised of $K$ messages are stored on $N$ non-colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

In this paper, we study the lossless analog compression for i.i.d. nonsingular signals via the polarization-based framework. We prove that for nonsingular source, the error probability of maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation polarizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Shuai Yuan , Liuquan Yao , Yuan Li , Huazi Zhang , Jun Wang , Wen Tong , Zhiming Ma

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 investigates achievable information rates and error exponents of mismatched decoding when the channel belongs to the class of channels that are close to the decoding metric in terms of relative entropy. For both discrete- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Priyanka Patel , Francesc Molina , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

We develop a communication-theoretic framework for privacy-aware and resilient decision making in cyber-physical systems under misaligned objectives between the encoder and the decoder. The encoder observes two correlated signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Anju Anand , Emrah Akyol

This paper studies the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem under limited communication, where each agent aims to keep its cost function private while minimizing the sum of all agents' cost functions. To this end, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Antai Xie , Xinlei Yi , Xiaofan Wang , Ming Cao , Xiaoqiang Ren

We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data is used in k steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of t steps. This sampling scheme has been recently applied in the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Vitaly Feldman , Moshe Shenfeld

We derive bounds on the asymptotic density of parity-check matrices and the achievable rates of binary linear block codes transmitted over memoryless binary-input output-symmetric (MBIOS) channels. The lower bounds on the density of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Gil Wiechman , Igal Sason

We develop a low-complexity polar coding scheme for the discrete memoryless broadcast channel with confidential messages under strong secrecy and randomness constraints. Our scheme extends previous work by using an optimal rate of uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Remi A. Chou , Matthieu R. Bloch

Convex optimization finds many real-life applications, where--optimized on real data--optimization results may expose private data attributes (e.g., individual health records, commercial information), thus leading to privacy breaches. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Vladimir Dvorkin , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Pierre Pinson , Jalal Kazempour

This paper is focused on the performance analysis of binary linear block codes (or ensembles) whose transmission takes place over independent and memoryless parallel channels. New upper bounds on the maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 I. Sason , I. Goldenberg

We study privacy amplification for differentially private model training with matrix factorization under random allocation (also known as the balls-in-bins model). Recent work by Choquette-Choo et al. (2025) proposes a sampling-based Monte…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Jan Schuchardt , Nikita Kalinin

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

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a gold-standard framework for privacy-preserving data analysis. However, characterizing the optimal privacy-utility trade-off (PUT) and the corresponding optimal LDP channels remains largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Seung-Hyun Nam , Hyun-Young Park , Si-Hyeon Lee