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Consider two data providers, each maintaining private records of different feature sets about common entities. They aim to learn a linear model jointly in a federated setting, namely, data is local and a shared model is trained from locally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Stephen Hardy , Wilko Henecka , Hamish Ivey-Law , Richard Nock , Giorgio Patrini , Guillaume Smith , Brian Thorne

In many applications, multiple parties have private data regarding the same set of users but on disjoint sets of attributes, and a server wants to leverage the data to train a model. To enable model learning while protecting the privacy of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Zitao Li , Tianhao Wang , Ninghui Li

Private computation, which includes techniques like multi-party computation and private query execution, holds great promise for enabling organizations to analyze data they and their partners hold while maintaining data subjects' privacy.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Bailey Kacsmar , Vasisht Duddu , Kyle Tilbury , Blase Ur , Florian Kerschbaum

Organizations are increasingly interested in allowing external data scientists to explore their sensitive datasets. Due to the popularity of differential privacy, data owners want the data exploration to ensure provable privacy guarantees.…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Chang Ge , Xi He , Ihab F. Ilyas , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

We study federated learning (FL) -- especially cross-silo FL -- with non-convex loss functions and data from people who do not trust the server or other silos. In this setting, each silo (e.g. hospital) must protect the privacy of each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Andrew Lowy , Ali Ghafelebashi , Meisam Razaviyayn

Federated learning (FL) enhanced by differential privacy has emerged as a popular approach to better safeguard the privacy of client-side data by protecting clients' contributions during the training process. Existing solutions typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Junxu Liu , Jian Lou , Li Xiong , Jinfei Liu , Xiaofeng Meng

Machine learning models used for distributed architectures consisting of servers and clients require large amounts of data to achieve high accuracy. Data obtained from clients are collected on a central server for model training. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Ozer Ozturk , Busra Buyuktanir , Gozde Karatas Baydogmus , Kazim Yildiz

We consider the problem of the private release of statistics (like aggregate payrolls) where it is critical to preserve the contribution made by a small number of outlying large entities. We propose a privacy formalism, per-record zero…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Jeremy Seeman , William Sexton , David Pujol , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Differential privacy (DP) is the state-of-the-art and rigorous notion of privacy for answering aggregate database queries while preserving the privacy of sensitive information in the data. In today's era of data analysis, however, it poses…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yuchao Tao , Amir Gilad , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Sudeepa Roy

Large organizations that collect data about populations (like the US Census Bureau) release summary statistics that are used by multiple stakeholders for resource allocation and policy making problems. These organizations are also legally…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-08 David Pujol , Yikai Wu , Brandon Fain , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

When multiple parties that deal with private data aim for a collaborative prediction task such as medical image classification, they are often constrained by data protection regulations and lack of trust among collaborating parties. If done…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Ismat Jarin , Birhanu Eshete

Data outsourcing allows data owners to keep their data at \emph{untrusted} clouds that do not ensure the privacy of data and/or computations. One useful framework for fault-tolerant data processing in a distributed fashion is MapReduce,…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Shlomi Dolev , Peeyush Gupta , Yin Li , Sharad Mehrotra , Shantanu Sharma

The dire need to protect sensitive data has led to various flavors of privacy definitions. Among these, Differential privacy (DP) is considered one of the most rigorous and secure notions of privacy, enabling data analysis while preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Amir Gilad , Tova Milo , Kathy Razmadze , Ron Zadicario

We examine the combination of two directions in the field of privacy concerning computations over distributed private inputs - secure function evaluation (SFE) and differential privacy. While in both the goal is to privately evaluate some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-15 Amos Beimel , Kobbi Nissim , Eran Omri

Confidentiality for business data is an understudied area of disclosure avoidance, where legacy methods struggle to provide acceptable results. Standard formal privacy techniques for person-level data, like differential privacy, are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Kaitlyn Webb , Prottay Protivash , John Durrell , Daniell Toth , Aleksandra Slavković , Daniel Kifer

Differential privacy is a precise mathematical constraint meant to ensure privacy of individual pieces of information in a database even while queries are being answered about the aggregate. Intuitively, one must come to terms with what…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Paul Cuff , Lanqing Yu

We study a setting of collecting and learning from private data distributed across end users. In the shuffled model of differential privacy, the end users partially protect their data locally before sharing it, and their data is also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Tal Wagner

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in a variety of machine learning applications applied to rich user data on the cloud. However, this approach introduces a number of privacy and efficiency challenges, as the cloud operator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Seyed Ali Osia , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Ali Taheri , Kleomenis Katevas , Hamid R. Rabiee , Nicholas D. Lane , Hamed Haddadi

Differential privacy is widely considered the formal privacy for privacy-preserving data analysis due to its robust and rigorous guarantees, with increasingly broad adoption in public services, academia, and industry. Despite originating in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Weijie J. Su

Privacy of the outsourced data is one of the major challenge.Insecurity of the network environment and untrustworthiness of the service providers are obstacles of making the database as a service.Collection and storage of personally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Divya G. Nair , V. P. Binu , G. Santhosh Kumar