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The Horvitz-Thompson estimate of a total can be seen as as differentially private mechanism applied to this population total. We provide forumlae to compute the $\epsilon$ and $\delta$ parameter for this specific mecanism, coupled or not…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-18 Daniel Bernard Bonnéry , Julien Jamme

Differential privacy (DP) has been recently introduced to linear contextual bandits to formally address the privacy concerns in its associated personalized services to participating users (e.g., recommendations). Prior work largely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Xingyu Zhou

The shuffle model of local differential privacy is an advanced method of privacy amplification designed to enhance privacy protection with high utility. It achieves this by randomly shuffling sensitive data, making linking individual data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 E Chen , Yang Cao , Yifei Ge

We consider the problem of designing scalable, robust protocols for computing statistics about sensitive data. Specifically, we look at how best to design differentially private protocols in a distributed setting, where each user holds a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Albert Cheu , Adam Smith , Jonathan Ullman , David Zeber , Maxim Zhilyaev

Secure sum computation of private data inputs is an interesting example of Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) which has attracted many researchers to devise secure protocols with lower probability of data leakage. In this paper, we provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-03-23 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

When working with joint collections of confidential data from multiple sources, e.g., in cloud-based multi-party computation scenarios, the ownership relation between data providers and their inputs itself is confidential information.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-14 Kilian Becher , Thorsten Strufe

We study differentially private distributed optimization under communication constraints. A server using SGD for optimization aggregates the client-side local gradients for model updates using distributed mean estimation (DME). We develop a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Antonious M. Girgis , Suhas Diggavi

We consider the problem of private distributed multi-party multiplication. It is well-established that Shamir secret-sharing coding strategies can enable perfect information-theoretic privacy in distributed computation via the celebrated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Viveck R. Cadambe , Ateet Devulapalli , Haewon Jeong , Flavio P. Calmon

Much of the literature on differential privacy focuses on item-level privacy, where loosely speaking, the goal is to provide privacy per item or training example. However, recently many practical applications such as federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Yuhan Liu , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Felix Yu , Sanjiv Kumar , Michael Riley

Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) allows parties to know the result of cooperative computation while preserving privacy of individual data. Secure sum computation is an important application of SMC. In our proposed protocols parties are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

We consider a private distributed multiplication problem involving N computation nodes and T colluding nodes. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm provides perfect information-theoretic privacy, while requiring an honest majority, i.e., N \ge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

Shuffler-based differential privacy (shuffle-DP) is a privacy paradigm providing high utility by involving a shuffler to permute noisy report from users. Existing shuffle-DP protocols mainly focus on the design of shuffler-based categorical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Xiaoguang Li , Hanyi Wang , Yaowei Huang , Jungang Yang , Qingqing Ye , Haonan Yan , Ke Pan , Zhe Sun , Hui Li

We study the problem of releasing the weights of all-pair shortest paths in a weighted undirected graph with differential privacy (DP). In this setting, the underlying graph is fixed and two graphs are neighbors if their edge weights differ…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Jelani Nelson

We present a simple and practical protocol for the solution of a secure multiparty communication task, the secret sharing, and its experimental realization. In this protocol, a secret message is split among several parties in a way that its…

Cloud computing has garnered attention as a platform of query processing systems. However, data privacy leakage is a critical problem. Chowdhury et al. proposed Crypt(epsilon), which executes differential privacy (DP) over encrypted data on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 S. Ushiyama , T. Takahashi , M. Kudo , H. Yamana

Subgraph counting is fundamental for analyzing connection patterns or clustering tendencies in graph data. Recent studies have applied LDP (Local Differential Privacy) to subgraph counting to protect user privacy even against a data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Jacob Imola , Takao Murakami , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Given a dataset of $n$ user-contributed strings, each of length at most $\ell$, a key problem is how to identify all frequent substrings while preserving each user's privacy. Recent work by Bernardini et al. (PODS'25) introduced a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Peaker Guo , Rayne Holland , Hao Wu

The shuffle model of differential privacy has gained significant interest as an intermediate trust model between the standard local and central models [EFMRTT19; CSUZZ19]. A key result in this model is that randomly shuffling locally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Vitaly Feldman , Audra McMillan , Kunal Talwar

Differential privacy is achieved by the introduction of Laplacian noise in the response to a query, establishing a precise trade-off between the level of differential privacy and the accuracy of the database response (via the amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Maurizio Naldi , Giuseppe D'Acquisto

We present a secure multi-party quantum summation protocol based on quantum teleportation, in which a malicious, but non-collusive, third party (TP) helps compute the summation. In our protocol, TP is in charge of entanglement distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Cai Zhang , Mohsen Razavi , Zhiwei Sun , Qiong Huang , Haozhen Situ