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Shuffling is a powerful way to amplify privacy of a local randomizer in private distributed data analysis. Most existing analyses of how shuffling amplifies privacy are based on the pure local differential privacy (DP) parameter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Shun Takagi , Seng Pei Liew

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

Balancing utility and differential privacy by shuffling or \textit{BUDS} is an approach towards crowd-sourced, statistical databases, with strong privacy and utility balance using differential privacy theory. Here, a novel algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Poushali Sengupta , Sudipta Paul , Subhankar Mishra

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

We give efficient protocols and matching accuracy lower bounds for frequency estimation in the local model for differential privacy. In this model, individual users randomize their data themselves, sending differentially private reports to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Raef Bassily , Adam Smith

In this note, we consider the problem of differentially privately (DP) computing an anonymized histogram, which is defined as the multiset of counts of the input dataset (without bucket labels). In the low-privacy regime $\epsilon \geq 1$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Pasin Manurangsi

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

We study the accuracy of differentially private mechanisms in the continual release model. A continual release mechanism receives a sensitive dataset as a stream of $T$ inputs and produces, after receiving each input, an accurate output on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Palak Jain , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Satchit Sivakumar , Adam Smith

Recently, it is shown that shuffling can amplify the central differential privacy guarantees of data randomized with local differential privacy. Within this setup, a centralized, trusted shuffler is responsible for shuffling by keeping the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Shun Takagi , Fumiyuki Kato , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…

We study discrete distribution estimation under user-level local differential privacy (LDP). In user-level $\varepsilon$-LDP, each user has $m\ge1$ samples and the privacy of all $m$ samples must be preserved simultaneously. We resolve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Jayadev Acharya , Yuhan Liu , Ziteng Sun

We obtain a new protocol for binary counting in the $\varepsilon$-shuffle-DP model with error $O(1/\varepsilon)$ and expected communication $\tilde{O}\left(\frac{\log n}{\varepsilon}\right)$ messages per user. Previous protocols incur…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

The Gap-Hamming-Distance problem arose in the context of proving space lower bounds for a number of key problems in the data stream model. In this problem, Alice and Bob have to decide whether the Hamming distance between their $n$-bit…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Joshua Brody , Amit Chakrabarti

We study the fundamental problem of index coding under an additional privacy constraint that requires each receiver to learn nothing more about the collection of messages beyond its demanded messages from the server and what is available to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Varun Narayanan , Jithin Ravi , Vivek K. Mishra , Bikash Kumar Dey , Nikhil Karamchandani , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We study the fundamental problem of frequency estimation under both privacy and communication constraints, where the data is distributed among $k$ parties. We consider two application scenarios: (1) one-shot, where the data is static and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ziyue Huang , Yuan Qiu , Ke Yi , Graham Cormode

Contextual bandit algorithms are widely used in domains where it is desirable to provide a personalized service by leveraging contextual information, that may contain sensitive information that needs to be protected. Inspired by this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Evrard Garcelon , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Vianney Perchet , Matteo Pirotta

Consider the setup where $n$ parties are each given a number $x_i \in \mathbb{F}_q$ and the goal is to compute the sum $\sum_i x_i$ in a secure fashion and with as little communication as possible. We study this problem in the anonymized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Badih Ghazi , Pasin Manurangsi , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker

Federated Learning, as a popular paradigm for collaborative training, is vulnerable against privacy attacks. Different privacy levels regarding users' attitudes need to be satisfied locally, while a strict privacy guarantee for the global…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yixuan Liu , Suyun Zhao , Li Xiong , Yuhan Liu , Hong Chen

A protocol by Ishai et al.\ (FOCS 2006) showing how to implement distributed $n$-party summation from secure shuffling has regained relevance in the context of the recently proposed \emph{shuffle model} of differential privacy, as it allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Borja Balle , James Bell , Adria Gascon , Kobbi Nissim

We show a new lower bound on the sample complexity of $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithms that accurately answer statistical queries on high-dimensional databases. The novelty of our bound is that it depends optimally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman