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Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is becoming increasingly prevalent due to its potential to enhance classical machine learning (ML) tasks, such as classification. Although quantum noise is often viewed as a major challenge in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Hoang M. Ngo , Tre' R. Jeter , Incheol Shin , Wanli Xing , Tamer Kahveci , My T. Thai

We consider accurately answering smooth queries while preserving differential privacy. A query is said to be $K$-smooth if it is specified by a function defined on $[-1,1]^d$ whose partial derivatives up to order $K$ are all bounded. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Chi Jin , Ziteng Wang , Junliang Huang , Yiqiao Zhong , Liwei Wang

In this paper, we address the challenge of differential privacy in the context of graph cuts, specifically focusing on the multiway cut and the minimum $k$-cut. We introduce edge-differentially private algorithms that achieve nearly optimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Rishi Chandra , Michael Dinitz , Chenglin Fan , Zongrui Zou

We propose $\mathtt{PrivHP}$, a lightweight synthetic data generator with \textit{differential privacy} guarantees. $\mathtt{PrivHP}$ uses a novel hierarchical decomposition that approximates the input's cumulative distribution function…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Rayne Holland , Seyit Camtepe , Chandra Thapa , Minhui Xue

Differential privacy is widely used in data analysis. State-of-the-art $k$-means clustering algorithms with differential privacy typically add an equal amount of noise to centroids for each iterative computation. In this paper, we propose a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Tianjiao Ni , Minghao Qiao , Zhili Chen , Shun Zhang , Hong Zhong

Protecting individual privacy is crucial when releasing sensitive data for public use. While data de-identification helps, it is not enough. This paper addresses parameter estimation in scenarios where data are perturbed using the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-13 Qinglong Tian , Jiwei Zhao

It is well-known that stochastic gradient noise (SGN) acts as implicit regularization for deep learning and is essentially important for both optimization and generalization of deep networks. Some works attempted to artificially simulate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Zeke Xie , Li Yuan , Zhanxing Zhu , Masashi Sugiyama

Concern about how to aggregate sensitive user data without compromising individual privacy is a major barrier to greater availability of data. The model of differential privacy has emerged as an accepted model to release sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Graham Cormode , Tejas Kulkarni , Divesh Srivastava

A Quantum Natural Gradient (QNG) algorithm for optimization of variational quantum circuits has been proposed recently. In this study, we employ the Langevin equation with a QNG stochastic force to demonstrate that its discrete-time…

The neighbourhood-based Collaborative Filtering is a widely used method in recommender systems. However, the risks of revealing customers' privacy during the process of filtering have attracted noticeable public concern recently.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Zhigang Lu , Hong Shen

Probabilistic reasoning is a key aspect of both human and artificial intelligence that allows for handling uncertainty and ambiguity in decision-making. In this paper, we introduce a new numerical reasoning task under uncertainty for large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jonathan Zheng , Sauvik Das , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu

Quantiles are often used for summarizing and understanding data. If that data is sensitive, it may be necessary to compute quantiles in a way that is differentially private, providing theoretical guarantees that the result does not reveal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jennifer Gillenwater , Matthew Joseph , Alex Kulesza

Being able to release and exploit open data gathered in information systems is crucial for researchers, enterprises and the overall society. Yet, these data must be anonymized before release to protect the privacy of the subjects to whom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-17 David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Sergio Martínez , Jordi Soria-Comas

K-Anonymity is a property for the measurement, management, and governance of the data anonymization. Many implementations of k-anonymity have been described in state of the art, but most of them are not able to work with a large number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Daniel De Pascale , Giuseppe Cascavilla , Damian A. Tamburri , Willem-Jan Van Den Heuvel

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are a powerful representation of linked data, offering flexibility, semantic richness, and support for knowledge enrichment and reasoning. They help data owners organize and exploit heterogeneous data to provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yasmine Hayder

We consider differentially private algorithms for reinforcement learning in continuous spaces, such that neighboring reward functions are indistinguishable. This protects the reward information from being exploited by methods such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-12 Baoxiang Wang , Nidhi Hegde

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

Differentially private gradient descent (DP-GD) is a popular algorithm to train deep learning models with provable guarantees on the privacy of the training data. In the last decade, the problem of understanding its performance cost with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Simone Bombari , Marco Mondelli

We propose a novel theoretical and methodological framework for Gaussian process regression subject to privacy constraints. The proposed method can be used when a data owner is unwilling to share a high-fidelity supervised learning model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Rui Tuo , Haoyuan Chen , Raktim Bhattacharya

The explosion in volume and variety of data offers enormous potential for research and commercial use. Increased availability of personal data is of particular interest in enabling highly customised services tuned to individual needs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Naoise Holohan , Spiros Antonatos , Stefano Braghin , Pól Mac Aonghusa