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The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki

Data-driven advancements significantly contribute to societal progress, yet they also pose substantial risks to privacy. In this landscape, differential privacy (DP) has become a cornerstone in privacy preservation efforts. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sara Saeidian , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

The widespread acceptance of differential privacy has led to the publication of many sophisticated algorithms for protecting privacy. However, due to the subtle nature of this privacy definition, many such algorithms have bugs that make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Zeyu Ding , Yuxin Wang , Guanhong Wang , Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer

Differential privacy is a widely used notion of security that enables the processing of sensitive information. In short, differentially private algorithms map "neighbouring" inputs to close output distributions. Prior work proposed several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Armando Angrisani , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard for protecting sensitive data, providing strong guarantees that published statistics or models reveal limited information about any individual. However, privacy noise and restricted…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mariia Vologdin , Yuchao Tao , Amir Gilad

Differential Privacy can provide provable privacy guarantees for training data in machine learning. However, the presence of proofs does not preclude the presence of errors. Inspired by recent advances in auditing which have been used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Florian Tramer , Andreas Terzis , Thomas Steinke , Shuang Song , Matthew Jagielski , Nicholas Carlini

Differential privacy is a framework for protecting the identity of individual data points in the decision-making process. In this note, we propose a new form of differential privacy called tangent differential privacy. Compared with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Lexing Ying

In a technical treatment, this article establishes the necessity of transparent privacy for drawing unbiased statistical inference for a wide range of scientific questions. Transparency is a distinct feature enjoyed by differential privacy:…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-20 Ruobin Gong

We investigate whether Differentially Private SGD offers better privacy in practice than what is guaranteed by its state-of-the-art analysis. We do so via novel data poisoning attacks, which we show correspond to realistic privacy attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Matthew Jagielski , Jonathan Ullman , Alina Oprea

Differential Privacy (DP) is a formal definition of privacy that provides rigorous guarantees against risks of privacy breaches during data processing. It makes no assumptions about the knowledge or computational power of adversaries, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Roxana Danger

We describe a new algorithm for answering a given set of range queries under $\epsilon$-differential privacy which often achieves substantially lower error than competing methods. Our algorithm satisfies differential privacy by adding noise…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Chao Li , Michael Hay , Gerome Miklau , Yue Wang

Individual Differential Privacy (iDP) promises users control over their privacy, but this promise can be broken in practice. We reveal a previously overlooked vulnerability in sampling-based iDP mechanisms: while conforming to the iDP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Johannes Kaiser , Alexander Ziller , Eleni Triantafillou , Daniel Rückert , Georgios Kaissis

So far, privacy models follow two paradigms. The first paradigm, termed inferential privacy in this paper, focuses on the risk due to statistical inference of sensitive information about a target record from other records in the database.…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Ke Wang , Peng Wang , Ada Waichee Fu , Raywong Chi-Wing Wong

The objective of machine learning is to extract useful information from data, while privacy is preserved by concealing information. Thus it seems hard to reconcile these competing interests. However, they frequently must be balanced when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Zhanglong Ji , Zachary C. Lipton , Charles Elkan

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

Differential privacy is a mathematical notion of data privacy that has fast become the de facto standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. Recently a lot of work has focused on differential privacy in the quantum setting. Continuing on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Arghya Mukherjee , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Gavin K. Brennen

We present associative and causal views of differential privacy. Under the associative view, the possibility of dependencies between data points precludes a simple statement of differential privacy's guarantee as conditioning upon a single…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Michael Carl Tschantz , Shayak Sen , Anupam Datta

This chapter is meant to be part of the book "Differential Privacy in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice" and provides an introduction to Differential Privacy. It starts by illustrating various attempts to protect data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Juba Ziani

Emerging systems such as smart grids or intelligent transportation systems often require end-user applications to continuously send information to external data aggregators performing monitoring or control tasks. This can result in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas

We present a comprehensive analysis of privacy attacks and countermeasures in data-driven systems. We systematically categorize attacks targeting three domains: anonymous data (linkage and structural attacks), statistical aggregates…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Baobao Song , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Mengyue Deng , Qiujun Lan , Robin Doss , Gang Li