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Sampling is renowned for its privacy amplification in differential privacy (DP), and is often assumed to improve the utility of a DP mechanism by allowing a noise reduction. In this paper, we further show that this last assumption is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Àlex Miranda-Pascual , Javier Parra-Arnau , Thorsten Strufe

The differential privacy is a widely accepted conception of privacy preservation and the Laplace mechanism is a famous instance of differential privacy mechanisms to deal with numerical data. In this paper, we find that the differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Wen Huang , Shijie Zhou , Yongjian Liao

Many differentially private (DP) data release systems either output DP synthetic data and leave analysts to perform inference as usual, which can lead to severe miscalibration, or output a DP point estimate without a principled way to do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Amir Asiaee , Samhita Pal

Differential privacy (DP) allows the quantification of privacy loss when the data of individuals is subjected to algorithmic processing such as machine learning, as well as the provision of objective privacy guarantees. However, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tamara T. Mueller , Alexander Ziller , Dmitrii Usynin , Moritz Knolle , Friederike Jungmann , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

The proliferation of real-time applications has motivated extensive research on analyzing and optimizing data freshness in the context of \textit{age of information}. However, classical frameworks of privacy (e.g., differential privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Meng Zhang , Ermin Wei , Randall Berry , Jianwei Huang

Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) extends the concept of Differential Privacy (DP) to serve as a new paradigm of data perturbation. It is designed to protect secret data represented in general metric space, such as text data encoded as word…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Chenxi Qiu

To resolve the acute problem of privacy protection and guarantee that data can be used in the context of threat intelligence, this paper considers the implementation of Differential Privacy (DP) in cybersecurity analytics. DP, which is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Brahim Khalil Sedraoui , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Amina Makhlouf , Chaouki Chemam

Differential privacy (DP) quantifies privacy loss by analyzing noise injected into output statistics. For non-trivial statistics, this noise is necessary to ensure finite privacy loss. However, data curators frequently release collections…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jeremy Seeman , Matthew Reimherr , Aleksandra Slavkovic

This paper is motivated by applications of a Census Bureau interested in releasing aggregate socio-economic data about a large population without revealing sensitive information about any individual. The released information can be the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Keyu Zhu

Many intended uses of differential privacy involve a $\textit{continual mechanism}$ that is set up to run continuously over a long period of time, making more statistical releases as either queries come in or the dataset is updated. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Monika Henzinger , Roodabeh Safavi , Salil Vadhan

Differential privacy (DP) has arisen as the state-of-the-art metric for quantifying individual privacy when sensitive data are analyzed, and it is starting to see practical deployment in organizations such as the US Census Bureau, Apple,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sameer Wagh , Xi He , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Prateek Mittal

We study elliptical distributions in locally convex vector spaces, and determine conditions when they can or cannot be used to satisfy differential privacy (DP). A requisite condition for a sanitized statistical summary to satisfy DP is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Matthew Reimherr , Jordan Awan

As data-driven technologies advance swiftly, maintaining strong privacy measures becomes progressively difficult. Conventional $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy, while prevalent, exhibits limited adaptability for many applications.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yifeng Liu , Zehua Wang

Given a group size m and a sensitive dataset D, group privacy (GP) releases information about D with the guarantee that the adversary cannot infer with high confidence whether the underlying data is D or a neighboring dataset D' that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yangfan Jiang , Xinjian Luo , Yin Yang , Xiaokui Xiao

Differential privacy (DP) has become the gold standard for privacy-preserving data analysis, but its applicability can be limited in scenarios involving complex dependencies between sensitive information and datasets. To address this, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Tao Zhang , Bradley A. Malin , Netanel Raviv , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Across academia, government, and industry, data stewards are facing increasing pressure to make datasets more openly accessible for researchers while also protecting the privacy of data subjects. Differential privacy (DP) is one promising…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jayshree Sarathy , Sophia Song , Audrey Haque , Tania Schlatter , Salil Vadhan

We introduce a set of useful expressions of Differential Privacy (DP) notions in terms of the Laplace transform of the privacy loss distribution. Its bare form expression appears in several related works on analyzing DP, either as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Rishav Chourasia , Uzair Javaid , Biplap Sikdar

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

A common problem in private data analysis is the partition selection problem, where each user holds a set of partitions (e.g. keys in a GROUP BY operation) from a possibly unbounded set. The challenge here is in maximizing the set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Charlie Harrison , Pasin Manurangsi