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This work studies differential privacy in the context of the recently proposed shuffle model. Unlike in the local model, where the server collecting privatized data from users can track back an input to a specific user, in the shuffle model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Borja Balle , James Bell , Adria Gascon , Kobbi Nissim

Recent work of Erlingsson, Feldman, Mironov, Raghunathan, Talwar, and Thakurta [EFMRTT19] demonstrates that random shuffling amplifies differential privacy guarantees of locally randomized data. Such amplification implies substantially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Vitaly Feldman , Audra McMillan , Kunal Talwar

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

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

In this paper, we present a quantum secure multi-party summation protocol, which allows multiple mutually distrustful parties to securely compute the summation of their secret data. In the presented protocol, a semitrusted third party is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Hong Chang , Yiting Wu , Gongde Guo , Song Lin

Recently, a quantum multi-party summation protocol based on the quantum Fourier transform has been proposed [Quantum Inf Process 17: 129, 2018]. The protocol claims to be secure against both outside and participant attacks. However, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Cai Zhang , Mohsen Razavi , Zhewei Sun , Haozhen Situ

The shuffle model of differential privacy has attracted attention in the literature due to it being a middle ground between the well-studied central and local models. In this work, we study the problem of summing (aggregating) real numbers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Rasmus Pagh , Amer Sinha

We develop a sharp, experiment-level privacy theory for amplification by shuffling in the Gaussian regime: a fixed finite-output local randomizer with full support and neighboring binary datasets differing in one user. We first prove exact…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Alex Shvets

Differentially private mechanisms achieving worst-case optimal error bounds (e.g., the classical Laplace mechanism) are well-studied in the literature. However, when typical data are far from the worst case, \emph{instance-specific} error…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Wei Dong , Qiyao Luo , Giulia Fanti , Elaine Shi , Ke Yi

The shuffle model of DP (Differential Privacy) provides high utility by introducing a shuffler that randomly shuffles noisy data sent from users. However, recent studies show that existing shuffle protocols suffer from the following two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Takao Murakami , Yuichi Sei , Reo Eriguchi

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

We study the problem of private vector mean estimation in the shuffle model of privacy where $n$ users each have a unit vector $v^{(i)} \in\mathbb{R}^d$. We propose a new multi-message protocol that achieves the optimal error using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hilal Asi , Vitaly Feldman , Jelani Nelson , Huy L. Nguyen , Kunal Talwar , Samson Zhou

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

There has been much recent work in the shuffle model of differential privacy, particularly for approximate $d$-bin histograms. While these protocols achieve low error, the number of messages sent by each user -- the message complexity --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Albert Cheu , Maxim Zhilyaev

Understanding how information can efficiently spread in distributed systems under noisy communications is a fundamental question in both biological research and artificial system design. When agents are able to control whom they interact…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Niccolò D'Archivio , Amos Korman , Emanuele Natale , Robin Vacus

An exciting new development in differential privacy is the shuffled model, in which an anonymous channel enables non-interactive, differentially private protocols with error much smaller than what is possible in the local model, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Badih Ghazi , Noah Golowich , Ravi Kumar , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker

We consider the problem of computing an aggregation function in a \emph{secure} and \emph{scalable} way. Whereas previous distributed solutions with similar security guarantees have a communication cost of $O(n^3)$, we present a distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-24 Sebastien Gambs , Rachid Guerraoui , Hamza Harkous , Florian Huc , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

In data-driven applications, preserving user privacy while enabling valuable computations remains a critical challenge. Technologies like differential privacy have been pivotal in addressing these concerns. The shuffle model of DP requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shaowei Wang , Changyu Dong , Xiangfu Song , Jin Li , Zhili Zhou , Di Wang , Han Wu

Computing the noisy sum of real-valued vectors is an important primitive in differentially private learning and statistics. In private federated learning applications, these vectors are held by client devices, leading to a distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Kunal Talwar

We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data is used in k steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of t steps. This sampling scheme has been recently applied in the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Vitaly Feldman , Moshe Shenfeld