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Key-value data is a naturally occurring data type that has not been thoroughly investigated in the local trust model. Existing local differentially private (LDP) solutions for computing statistics over key-value data suffer from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Thomas Humphries , Rasoul Akhavan Mahdavi , Shannon Veitch , Florian Kerschbaum

We study spectral graph clustering under edge differential privacy. We propose a matrix shuffling mechanism that combines randomized edge flipping with a random permutation of the adjacency matrix. While edge flipping alone provides only a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Antti Koskela , Mohamed Seif , H. Vincent Poor , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Distributed control/optimization is a promising approach for network systems due to its advantages over centralized schemes, such as robustness, cost-effectiveness, and improved privacy. However, distributed methods can have drawbacks, such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Chin-Yao Chang

In statistical disclosure control, the goal of data analysis is twofold: The released information must provide accurate and useful statistics about the underlying population of interest, while minimizing the potential for an individual…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-15 Jing Lei , Anne-Sophie Charest , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Adam Smith , Stephen Fienberg

Sensitive statistics are often collected across sets of users, with repeated collection of reports done over time. For example, trends in users' private preferences or software usage may be monitored via such reports. We study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Úlfar Erlingsson , Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Ananth Raghunathan , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

Differential privacy (DP) has steadily become the de-facto standard for achieving privacy in data analysis, which is typically implemented either in the "central" or "local" model. The local model has been more popular for commercial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Chenghong Wang , Xi He , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Somesh Jha

A growing framework of legal and ethical requirements limit scientific and commercial evalua-tion of personal data. Typically, pseudonymization, encryption, or methods of distributed com-puting try to protect individual privacy. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Nikolaus von Bomhard , Bernd Ahlborn , Catherine Mason , Ulrich Mansmann

Advances in communications, storage and computational technology allow significant quantities of data to be collected and processed by distributed devices. Combining the information from these endpoints can realize significant societal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Mary Scott , Graham Cormode , Carsten Maple

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a powerful tool for sequential decision-making, but its application is often hindered by privacy concerns arising from its interaction data. This challenge is particularly acute in advanced networked systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shaojie Bai , Mohammad Sadegh Talebi , Chengcheng Zhao , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

The shuffled (aka anonymous) model has recently generated significant interest as a candidate distributed privacy framework with trust assumptions better than the central model but with achievable errors smaller than the local model. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Badih Ghazi , Noah Golowich , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker

The emerging technologies for large scale data analysis raise new challenges to the security and privacy of sensitive user data. In this work we investigate the problem of private statistical analysis of time-series data in the distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Filipp Valovich , Francesco Aldà

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a variant of differential privacy (DP) that avoids the need for a trusted central curator, at the cost of a worse trade-off between privacy and utility. The shuffle model is a way to provide greater…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Mireya Jurado , Ramon G. Gonze , Mário S. Alvim , Catuscia Palamidessi

In this paper, we consider two critical aspects of security in the distributed computing (DC) model: secure data shuffling and secure coded computing. It is imperative that any external entity overhearing the transmissions does not gain any…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Shanuja Sasi , Onur Günlü

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

The central question studied in this paper is Renyi Differential Privacy (RDP) guarantees for general discrete local mechanisms in the shuffle privacy model. In the shuffle model, each of the $n$ clients randomizes its response using a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Antonious M. Girgis , Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Peter Kairouz

We consider a fully-decentralized scenario in which no central trusted entity exists and all clients are honest-but-curious. The state-of-the-art approaches to this problem often rely on cryptographic protocols, such as multiparty…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Hsuan-Po Liu , Mahdi Soleymani , Hessam Mahdavifar

Many resource allocation problems can be formulated as an optimization problem whose constraints contain sensitive information about participating users. This paper concerns solving this kind of optimization problem in a distributed manner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Shuo Han , Ufuk Topcu , George J. Pappas

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

Privacy is crucial in many applications of machine learning. Legal, ethical and societal issues restrict the sharing of sensitive data making it difficult to learn from datasets that are partitioned between many parties. One important…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-21 Christina Heinze-Deml , Brian McWilliams , Nicolai Meinshausen