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We address the problem of maximizing privacy of stochastic dynamical systems whose state information is released through quantized sensor data. In particular, we consider the setting where information about the system state is obtained…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Farhad Farokhi. Dragan Nesic , Vincent Poor

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

Through legislation and technical advances users gain more control over how their data is processed, and they expect online services to respect their privacy choices and preferences. However, data may be processed for many different…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Dorota Filipczuk , Enrico H. Gerding , George Konstantinidis

In this work, fundamental limits and optimal mechanisms of privacy-preserving data release that aims to minimize the privacy leakage under utility constraints of a set of multiple tasks are investigated. While the private feature to be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Ta-Yuan Liu , I-Hsiang Wang

The growing popular awareness of personal privacy raises the following quandary: what is the new paradigm for collecting and protecting the data produced by ever-increasing sensor devices. Most previous studies on co-design of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zuyan Wang , Jun Tao , Dika Zou

Collaborative inference in next-generation networks can enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, including autonomous driving, personal identification, and activity classification. This method involves a three-stage process: a)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea Goldsmith , Vincent Poor

Collaborative inference among multiple wireless edge devices has the potential to significantly enhance Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, particularly for sensing and computer vision. This approach typically involves a three-stage…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mohamed Seif , Yuqi Nie , Andrea J. Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we first present a volumetric privacy measure for dynamical systems with bounded disturbances, wherein the states of the system contain private information and an adversary with access to sensor measurements attempts to infer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Chuanghong Weng , Ehsan Nekouei

Time series have numerous applications in finance, healthcare, IoT, and smart city. In many of these applications, time series typically contain personal data, so privacy infringement may occur if they are released directly to the public.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Yulian Mao , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Qi Wang , Kai Huang

Differential privacy is the state-of-the-art formal definition for data release under strong privacy guarantees. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed in the literature for releasing the output of numeric queries (e.g., the Laplace…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Victor A. E. Farias , Felipe T. Brito , Cheryl Flynn , Javam C. Machado , Subhabrata Majumdar , Divesh Srivastava

Motivated by privacy preservation for outsourced data, data-oblivious external memory is a computational framework where a client performs computations on data stored at a semi-trusted server in a way that does not reveal her data to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Michael T. Goodrich , Joseph A. Simons

Time series data have numerous applications in big data analytics. However, they often cause privacy issues when collected from individuals. To address this problem, most existing works perturb the values in the time series while retaining…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Kai Huang , Man Ho Au , Qiao Xue

Wearable devices enable users to collect health data and share them with healthcare providers for improved health service. Since health data contain privacy-sensitive information, unprotected data release system may result in privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Jiajun Zhang , Xiaohui Liang , Zhikun Zhang , Shibo He , Zhiguo Shi

It is common practice to use data containing personal information to build predictive models in the framework of empirical risk minimization (ERM). While these models can be highly accurate in prediction, sharing the results from these…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-30 Spencer Giddens , Yiwang Zhou , Kevin R. Krull , Tara M. Brinkman , Peter X. K. Song , Fang Liu

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) has attracted extensive attention as it can explicitly handle system constraints and achieve optimal control in a decentralized manner. However, the deployment of DMPC strategies generally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Kaixiang Zhang , Yongqiang Wang , Ziyou Song , Zhaojian Li

We propose a general privacy-preserving optimization-based framework for real-time environments without requiring trusted data curators. In particular, we introduce a noisy stochastic gradient descent algorithm for online statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-11 Jinhan Xie , Enze Shi , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong , Xuming He

Graph data is used in a wide range of applications, while analyzing graph data without protection is prone to privacy breach risks. To mitigate the privacy risks, we resort to the standard technique of differential privacy to publish a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Quan Yuan , Zhikun Zhang , Linkang Du , Min Chen , Peng Cheng , Mingyang Sun

Decentralized optimization is gaining increased traction due to its widespread applications in large-scale machine learning and multi-agent systems. The same mechanism that enables its success, i.e., information sharing among participating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

Among existing privacy-preserving approaches, Differential Privacy (DP) is a powerful tool that can provide privacy-preserving noisy query answers over statistical databases and has been widely adopted in many practical fields. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Hui Cao , Shubo Liu , Zhitao Guan , Longfei Wu , Haonan Deng , Xiaojiang Du

Data publishing under privacy constraints can be achieved with mechanisms that add randomness to data points when released to an untrusted party, thereby decreasing the data's utility. In this paper, we analyze this privacy-utility tradeoff…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Leonhard Grosse , Sara Saeidian , Tobias Oechtering