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Computing the principal component (PC) of the adjacency matrix of an undirected graph has several applications ranging from identifying key vertices for influence maximization and controlling diffusion processes, to discovering densely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Alireza Khayatian , Anil Vullikanti , Aritra Konar

Motivated by understanding the dynamics of sensitive social networks over time, we consider the problem of continual release of statistics in a network that arrives online, while preserving privacy of its participants. For our privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Shuang Song , Susan Little , Sanjay Mehta , Staal Vinterbo , Kamalika Chaudhuri

The availability of rich and vast data sources has greatly advanced machine learning applications in various domains. However, data with privacy concerns comes with stringent regulations that frequently prohibited data access and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

This paper introduces a novel, fully distributed control framework for DC microgrids, enhancing resilience against exponentially unbounded false data injection (EU-FDI) attacks. Our framework features a consensus-based secondary control for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Yi Zhang , Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad , Yichao Wang , Junbo Zhao , Shan Zuo

Stakeholders in electricity delivery infrastructure are amassing data about their system demand, use, and operations. Still, they are reluctant to share them, as even sharing aggregated or anonymized electric grid data risks the disclosure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Nikhil Ravi , Anna Scaglione , Julieta Giraldez , Parth Pradhan , Chuck Moran , Sean Peisert

While pursuing better utility by discovering knowledge from the data, individual's privacy may be compromised during an analysis. To that end, differential privacy has been widely recognized as the state-of-the-art privacy notion. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Meisam Mohammady

As the use of differential privacy (DP) becomes widespread, the development of effective tools for reasoning about the privacy guarantee becomes increasingly critical. In pursuit of this goal, we demonstrate novel relationships between DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zeki Kazan , Sagar Sharma , Wanrong Zhang , Bo Jiang , Qiang Yan

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

Smart grids are a valuable data source to study consumer behavior and guide energy policy decisions. In particular, time-series of power consumption over geographical areas are essential in deciding the optimal placement of expensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Sina Shaham , Gabriel Ghinita , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Cyrus Shahabi

There has been a large number of contributions on privacy-preserving smart metering with Differential Privacy, addressing questions from actual enforcement at the smart meter to billing at the energy provider. However, exploitation is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Günther Eibl , Kaibin Bao , Philip-William Grassal , Daniel Bernau , Hartmut Schmeck

An important problem in deep learning is the privacy and security of neural networks (NNs). Both aspects have long been considered separately. To date, it is still poorly understood how privacy enhancing training affects the robustness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Franziska Boenisch , Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

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

Privacy risks in differentially private (DP) systems increase significantly when data is correlated, as standard DP metrics often underestimate the resulting privacy leakage, leaving sensitive information vulnerable. Given the ubiquity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Martin Lange , Patricia Guerra-Balboa , Javier Parra-Arnau , Thorsten Strufe

LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has been widely studied to estimate statistics of personal data (e.g., distribution underlying the data) while protecting users' privacy. Although LDP does not require a trusted third party, it regards all…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Takao Murakami , Yusuke Kawamoto

Differential privacy (DP) is a neat privacy definition that can co-exist with certain well-defined data uses in the context of interactive queries. However, DP is neither a silver bullet for all privacy problems nor a replacement for all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

Industrial control systems are a fundamental component of critical infrastructure networks (CIN) such as gas, water and power. With the growing risk of cyberattacks, regulatory compliance requirements are also increasing for large scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Paritosh Ramanan , H. M. Mohaimanul Islam , Abhiram Reddy Alugula

Many real-world graphs have degree distributions that are well approximated by a power-law, and the corresponding scaling parameter $\alpha$ provides a compact summary of that structure which is useful for graph analysis and system…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Adam Tan , Mohamed Hefny , Keval Vora

Local differential privacy (LPD) is a distributed variant of differential privacy (DP) in which the obfuscation of the sensitive information is done at the level of the individual records, and in general it is used to sanitize data that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Mário S. Alvim , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi , Anna Pazii

Data about individuals may contain private and sensitive information. The differential privacy (DP) was proposed to address the problem of protecting the privacy of each individual while keeping useful information about a population.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li

We propose a novel Decentralized Differentially Private Power Method (D-DP-PM) for performing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in networked multi-agent settings. Unlike conventional decentralized PCA approaches where each agent accesses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Andrew Campbell , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert