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The shuffle model of Differential Privacy (DP) is an enhanced privacy protocol which introduces an intermediate trusted server between local users and a central data curator. It significantly amplifies the central DP guarantee by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yixuan Liu , Yuhan Liu , Li Xiong , Yujie Gu , Hong Chen

Distribution estimation under local differential privacy (LDP) is a fundamental and challenging task. Significant progresses have been made on categorical data. However, due to different evaluation metrics, these methods do not work well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Puning Zhao , Zhikun Zhang , Bo Sun , Li Shen , Liang Zhang , Shaowei Wang , Zhe Liu

Local differential privacy (LDP) is increasingly employed in privacy-preserving machine learning to protect user data before sharing it with an untrusted aggregator. Most LDP methods assume that users possess only a single data record,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Behnoosh Zamanlooy , Mario Diaz , Shahab Asoodeh

We consider the problem of privacy-preserving data release for a specific utility task under perfect obfuscation constraint. We establish the necessary and sufficient condition to extract features of the original data that carry as much…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Behrooz Razeghi , Flavio. P. Calmon , Deniz Gunduz , Slava Voloshynovskiy

In the first part of the paper, we have studied the computational privacy risks in distributed computing protocols against local or global dynamics eavesdroppers, and proposed a Privacy-Preserving-Summation-Consistent (PPSC) mechanism as a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yang Liu , Junfeng Wu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

With the increasing popularity of GPS-enabled hand-held devices, location-based applications and services have access to accurate and real-time location information, raising serious privacy concerns for their millions of users. Trying to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi , Marco Stronati

We investigate the local differential privacy (LDP) guarantees of a randomized privacy mechanism via its contraction properties. We first show that LDP constraints can be equivalently cast in terms of the contraction coefficient of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-12 Shahab Asoodeh , Maryam Aliakbarpour , Flavio P. Calmon

The task of statistical inference, which includes the building of confidence intervals and tests for parameters and effects of interest to a researcher, is still an open area of investigation in a differentially private (DP) setting.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-17 Ogonnaya Michael Romanus , Younes Boulaguiem , Roberto Molinari

The goal of differentially private text obfuscation is to obfuscate, or "perturb", input texts with Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees, such that the private output texts are quantifiably indistinguishable from the originals. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Stephen Meisenbacher , Angelo Kleinert , Florian Matthes

Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By constructing random local aggregators, we propose a framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hanshen Xiao , Yu Ye , Srinivas Devadas

This paper studies the problem of multi-agent computation under the differential privacy requirement of the agents' local datasets against eavesdroppers having node-to-node communications. We first propose for the network equipped with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Lei Wang , Yang Liu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

The popularity of cyber-physical systems is fueling the rapid growth of location-based services. This poses the risk of location privacy disclosure. Effective privacy preservation is foremost for various mobile applications. Recently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Shun Zhang , Pengfei Lan , Benfei Duan , Zhili Chen , Hong Zhong , Neal N. Xiong

Differential privacy is the state-of-the-art formal definition for data release under strong privacy guarantees. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed in the literature for releasing the output of numeric queries (e.g., the Laplace…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Victor A. E. Farias , Felipe T. Brito , Cheryl Flynn , Javam C. Machado , Subhabrata Majumdar , Divesh Srivastava

Compressing the output of \epsilon-locally differentially private (LDP) randomizers naively leads to suboptimal utility. In this work, we demonstrate the benefits of using schemes that jointly compress and privatize the data using shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Abhin Shah , Wei-Ning Chen , Johannes Balle , Peter Kairouz , Lucas Theis

The framework of differential privacy protects an individual's privacy while publishing query responses on congregated data. In this work, a new noise addition mechanism for differential privacy is introduced where the noise added is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Gokularam Muthukrishnan , Sheetal Kalyani

The problem of estimating a parameter in the drift coefficient is addressed for $N$ discretely observed independent and identically distributed stochastic differential equations (SDEs). This is done considering additional constraints,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Chiara Amorino , Arnaud Gloter , Hélène Halconruy

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

There are now several large scale deployments of differential privacy used to collect statistical information about users. However, these deployments periodically recollect the data and recompute the statistics using algorithms designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Matthew Joseph , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman , Bo Waggoner

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

Differential privacy provides the first theoretical foundation with provable privacy guarantee against adversaries with arbitrary prior knowledge. The main idea to achieve differential privacy is to inject random noise into statistical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Yang D. Li , Zhenjie Zhang , Marianne Winslett , Yin Yang