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The shuffle model of Differential Privacy (DP) is an enhanced privacy protocol which introduces an intermediate trusted server between local users and a central data curator. It significantly amplifies the central DP guarantee by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yixuan Liu , Yuhan Liu , Li Xiong , Yujie Gu , Hong Chen

E-values have gained prominence as flexible tools for statistical inference and risk control, enabling anytime- and post-hoc-valid procedures under minimal assumptions. However, many real-world applications fundamentally rely on sensitive…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-22 Daniel Csillag , Diego Mesquita

Markov decision processes often seek to maximize a reward function, but onlookers may infer reward functions by observing the states and actions of such systems, revealing sensitive information. Therefore, in this paper we introduce and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Alexander Benvenuti , Calvin Hawkins , Brandon Fallin , Bo Chen , Brendan Bialy , Miriam Dennis , Matthew Hale

The sensitivity metric in differential privacy, which is informally defined as the largest marginal change in output between neighboring databases, is of substantial significance in determining the accuracy of private data analyses.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Rachel Cummings , David Durfee

The purpose of this paper is to develop a mathematical analysis theory to solve differential privacy problems. The heart of our approaches is to use analytic tools to characterize the correlations among the outputs of different datasets,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Genqiang Wu , Xianyao Xia , Yeping He

We propose a method for the release of differentially private synthetic datasets. In many contexts, data contain sensitive values which cannot be released in their original form in order to protect individuals' privacy. Synthetic data is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Joshua Snoke , Aleksandra Slavković

Differential privacy allows quantifying privacy loss resulting from accessing sensitive personal data. Repeated accesses to underlying data incur increasing loss. Releasing data as privacy-preserving synthetic data would avoid this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Joonas Jälkö , Eemil Lagerspetz , Jari Haukka , Sasu Tarkoma , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

Motivated by the increasing deployment of reinforcement learning in the real world, involving a large consumption of personal data, we introduce a differentially private (DP) policy gradient algorithm. We show that, in this setting, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Alexandre Rio , Merwan Barlier , Igor Colin

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms face the challenge of providing accurate results while protecting their inputs: the privacy-utility trade-off. A simple but powerful technique for DP adds noise to sensitivity-bounded query outputs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 David M. Sommer , Lukas Abfalterer , Sheila Zingg , Esfandiar Mohammadi

As members of a network share more information with each other and network providers, sensitive data leakage raises privacy concerns. To address this need for a class of problems, we introduce a novel mechanism that privatizes vectors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Parham Gohari , Bo Wu , Matthew Hale , Ufuk Topcu

Sequential querying of differentially private mechanisms degrades the overall privacy level. In this paper, we answer the fundamental question of characterizing the level of overall privacy degradation as a function of the number of queries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

Traditional approaches to differential privacy assume a fixed privacy requirement $\epsilon$ for a computation, and attempt to maximize the accuracy of the computation subject to the privacy constraint. As differential privacy is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Katrina Ligett , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Bo Waggoner , Z. Steven Wu

Motivated by a real-life problem of sharing social network data that contain sensitive personal information, we propose a novel approach to release and analyze synthetic graphs in order to protect privacy of individual relationships…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-26 Vishesh Karwa , Pavel N. Krivitsky , Aleksandra B. Slavković

Implementations of the exponential mechanism in differential privacy often require sampling from intractable distributions. When approximate procedures like Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) are used, the end result incurs costs to both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Jeremy Seeman , Matthew Reimherr , Aleksandra Slavkovic

Privacy concerns have attracted increasing attention in data-driven products due to the tendency of machine learning models to memorize sensitive training data. Generating synthetic versions of such data with a formal privacy guarantee,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Xiang Yue , Huseyin A. Inan , Xuechen Li , Girish Kumar , Julia McAnallen , Hoda Shajari , Huan Sun , David Levitan , Robert Sim

Differential privacy, a notion of algorithmic stability, is a gold standard for measuring the additional risk an algorithm's output poses to the privacy of a single record in the dataset. Differential privacy is defined as the distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Jacob Imola , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Large language models (LLMs) do not preserve privacy at inference-time. The LLM's outputs can inadvertently reveal information about the model's context, which presents a privacy challenge when the LLM is augmented via tools or databases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rushil Thareja , Preslav Nakov , Praneeth Vepakomma , Nils Lukas

\epsilon-differential privacy is the state-of-the-art model for releasing sensitive information while protecting privacy. Numerous methods have been proposed to enforce epsilon-differential privacy in various analytical tasks, e.g.,…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Jun Zhang , Zhenjie Zhang , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Marianne Winslett

Differential privacy (DP) is a compelling privacy definition that explains the privacy-utility tradeoff via formal, provable guarantees. Inspired by recent progress toward general-purpose data release algorithms, we propose a private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Differential privacy (DP) is a rigorous notion of data privacy, used for private statistics. The canonical algorithm for differentially private mean estimation is to first clip the samples to a bounded range and then add noise to their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Gautam Kamath , Argyris Mouzakis , Matthew Regehr , Vikrant Singhal , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman