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Differential privacy is often applied with a privacy parameter that is larger than the theory suggests is ideal; various informal justifications for tolerating large privacy parameters have been proposed. In this work, we consider partial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Thomas Steinke

We study the computational cost of differential privacy in terms of memory efficiency. While the trade-off between accuracy and differential privacy is well-understood, the inherent cost of privacy regarding memory use remains largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alessandro Epasto , Xin Lyu , Pasin Manurangsi

Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for developing statistical computations with provable guarantees of privacy and accuracy. In contrast to the privacy component of differential privacy, which has a clear mathematical and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Gilles Barthe , Rohit Chadha , Paul Krogmeier , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

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

The rise of connected personal devices together with privacy concerns call for machine learning algorithms capable of leveraging the data of a large number of agents to learn personalized models under strong privacy requirements. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Mahsa Taziki , Marc Tommasi

Differential privacy is a rigorous privacy condition achieved by randomizing query answers. This paper develops efficient algorithms for answering multiple queries under differential privacy with low error. We pursue this goal by advancing…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

In modern settings of data analysis, we may be running our algorithms on datasets that are sensitive in nature. However, classical machine learning and statistical algorithms were not designed with these risks in mind, and it has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Huanyu Zhang

New regulations and increased awareness of data privacy have led to the deployment of new and more efficient differentially private mechanisms across public institutions and industries. Ensuring the correctness of these mechanisms is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 William Kong , Andrés Muñoz Medina , Mónica Ribero , Umar Syed

Differential privacy and sublinear algorithms are both rapidly emerging algorithmic themes in times of big data analysis. Although recent works have shown the existence of differentially private sublinear algorithms for many problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jeremiah Blocki , Hendrik Fichtenberger , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

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

We study the relationship between two desiderata of algorithms in statistical inference and machine learning: differential privacy and robustness to adversarial data corruptions. Their conceptual similarity was first observed by Dwork and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Hilal Asi , Jonathan Ullman , Lydia Zakynthinou

Two party differential privacy allows two parties who do not trust each other, to come together and perform a joint analysis on their data whilst maintaining individual-level privacy. We show that any efficient, computationally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Vipul Arora , Eldon Chung , Zeyong Li , Thomas Tan

Auditing mechanisms for differential privacy use probabilistic means to empirically estimate the privacy level of an algorithm. For private machine learning, existing auditing mechanisms are tight: the empirical privacy estimate (nearly)…

We present new methods for assessing the privacy guarantees of an algorithm with regard to R\'enyi Differential Privacy. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to address this problem in a black-box scenario, where only…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Tim Kutta , Önder Askin , Martin Dunsche

In applications involving sensitive data, such as finance and healthcare, the necessity for preserving data privacy can be a significant barrier to machine learning model development. Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as one canonical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zachary Izzo , Jinsung Yoon , Sercan O. Arik , James Zou

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. However, alongside all its advancements, problems have also emerged, such as privacy violations, security issues and model fairness. Differential privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Wei Wang , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Motivated by settings in which predictive models may be required to be non-discriminatory with respect to certain attributes (such as race), but even collecting the sensitive attribute may be forbidden or restricted, we initiate the study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Matthew Jagielski , Michael Kearns , Jieming Mao , Alina Oprea , Aaron Roth , Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi , Jonathan Ullman

As a mathematically rigorous framework that has amassed a rich theoretical literature, differential privacy is considered by many experts to be the gold standard for privacy-preserving data analysis. Others argue that while differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Rachel Cummings , Jayshree Sarathy

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

Differential privacy allows bounding the influence that training data records have on a machine learning model. To use differential privacy in machine learning, data scientists must choose privacy parameters $(\epsilon,\delta)$. Choosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Daniel Bernau , Günther Eibl , Philip W. Grassal , Hannah Keller , Florian Kerschbaum