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We study the private $k$-median and $k$-means clustering problem in $d$ dimensional Euclidean space. By leveraging tree embeddings, we give an efficient and easy to implement algorithm, that is empirically competitive with state of the art…

The rise of connected personal devices together with privacy concerns call for machine learning algorithms capable of leveraging the data of a large number of agents to learn personalized models under strong privacy requirements. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Mahsa Taziki , Marc Tommasi

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes visible to a service provider while maintaining high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Peter Kairouz , Stefan Mellem , Adrià Gascón , Kallista Bonawitz , Deborah Estrin , Marco Gruteser

In this note, we describe a simple approach to obtain a differentially private algorithm for k-clustering with nearly the same multiplicative factor as any non-private counterpart at the cost of a large polynomial additive error. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Huy L. Nguyen

Reproduction numbers are widely used for the estimation and prediction of epidemic spreading processes over networks. However, conventional reproduction numbers of an overall network do not indicate where an epidemic is spreading.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Bo Chen , Baike She , Calvin Hawkins , Philip E. Paré , Matthew T. Hale

The $k$-center problem is a classical combinatorial optimization problem which asks to find $k$ centers such that the maximum distance of any input point in a set $P$ to its assigned center is minimized. The problem allows for elegant…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Clemens Rösner , Melanie Schmidt

Big Data is used by data miner for analysis purpose which may contain sensitive information. During the procedures it raises certain privacy challenges for researchers. The existing privacy preserving methods use different algorithms that…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Saira Khan , Khalid Iqbal , Safi Faizullah , Muhammad Fahad , Jawad Ali , Waqas Ahmed

Graph clustering is an unsupervised machine learning method that partitions the nodes in a graph into different groups. Despite achieving significant progress in exploiting both attributed and structured data information, graph clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Rui Zhang , Xiaoyang Hou , Zhihua Tian , Yan he , Enchao Gong , Jian Liu , Qingbiao Wu , Kui Ren

Cluster analysis, or clustering, plays a crucial role across numerous scientific and engineering domains. Despite the wealth of clustering methods proposed over the past decades, each method is typically designed for specific scenarios and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-22 Siyi Wang , Alexandre Leblanc , Paul D. McNicholas

The proliferation of smart meters has resulted in a large amount of data being generated. It is increasingly apparent that methods are required for allowing a variety of stakeholders to leverage the data in a manner that preserves the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Nikhil Ravi , Anna Scaglione , Sachin Kadam , Reinhard Gentz , Sean Peisert , Brent Lunghino , Emmanuel Levijarvi , Aram Shumavon

Correlation clustering is a widely used technique in unsupervised machine learning. Motivated by applications where individual privacy is a concern, we initiate the study of differentially private correlation clustering. We propose an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Mark Bun , Marek Eliáš , Janardhan Kulkarni

We study a protocol for distributed computation called shuffled check-in, which achieves strong privacy guarantees without requiring any further trust assumptions beyond a trusted shuffler. Unlike most existing work, shuffled check-in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Seng Pei Liew , Satoshi Hasegawa , Tsubasa Takahashi

Creation of a synthetic dataset that faithfully represents the data distribution and simultaneously preserves privacy is a major research challenge. Many space partitioning based approaches have emerged in recent years for answering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Eleonora Kreačić , Navid Nouri , Vamsi K. Potluru , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

Distributed quantum computing is a promising computational paradigm for performing computations that are beyond the reach of individual quantum devices. Privacy in distributed quantum computing is critical for maintaining confidentiality…

Recently introduced privacy legislation has aimed to restrict and control the amount of personal data published by companies and shared to third parties. Much of this real data is not only sensitive requiring anonymization, but also…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Mostafa Milani , Yu Huang , Fei Chiang

Differential privacy is the state-of-the-art definition for privacy, guaranteeing that any analysis performed on a sensitive dataset leaks no information about the individuals whose data are contained therein. In this thesis, we develop…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Vassilis Digalakis

Electrical load profiling supports retailers and distribution network operators in having a better understanding of the consumption behavior of consumers. However, traditional clustering methods for load profiling are centralized and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Mengshuo Jia , Yi Wang , Chen Shen , Gabriela Hug

Publishing physical activity data can facilitate reproducible health-care research in several areas such as population health management, behavioral health research, and management of chronic health problems. However, publishing such data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Pooja Parameshwarappa , Zhiyuan Chen , Gunes Koru

Enormous amounts of data collected from social networks or other online platforms are being published for the sake of statistics, marketing, and research, among other objectives. The consequent privacy and data security concerns have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Ola N. Halawi , Faisal N. Abu-Khzam