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Synthetic text generation with Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees emerges as a principled approach that can enable the sharing of sensitive datasets across institutional and regulatory boundaries, while bounding the risks of…

Auditing mechanisms for differential privacy use probabilistic means to empirically estimate the privacy level of an algorithm. For private machine learning, existing auditing mechanisms are tight: the empirical privacy estimate (nearly)…

How to synthesize a dataset while achieving differential privacy for AI model training is a meaningful but challenging problem. To address this problem, state-of-the-art methods first select original private dataset's multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mingxuan Jia , Wen Huang , Weixin Zhao , Xingyi Wang , Jian Peng , Zhishuo Zhang

Differentially private (DP) language model inference is an approach for generating private synthetic text. A sensitive input example is used to prompt an off-the-shelf large language model (LLM) to produce a similar example. Multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Kareem Amin , Salman Avestimehr , Sara Babakniya , Alex Bie , Weiwei Kong , Natalia Ponomareva , Umar Syed

We study private prediction where differential privacy is achieved by adding noise to the outputs of a non-private model. Existing methods rely on noise proportional to the global sensitivity of the model, often resulting in sub-optimal…

While data sharing is crucial for knowledge development, privacy concerns and strict regulation (e.g., European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) unfortunately limits its full effectiveness. Synthetic tabular data emerges as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Aditya Kunar

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation plays a pivotal role in developing large language models (LLMs) on private data, where data owners cannot provide eyes-on access to individual examples. Generating DP synthetic data…

We address the challenge of ensuring differential privacy (DP) guarantees in training deep retrieval systems. Training these systems often involves the use of contrastive-style losses, which are typically non-per-example decomposable,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aldo Gael Carranza , Rezsa Farahani , Natalia Ponomareva , Alex Kurakin , Matthew Jagielski , Milad Nasr

Probabilistic hyperproperties specify quantitative relations between the probabilities of reaching different target sets of states from different initial sets of states. This class of behavioral properties is suitable for capturing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Roman Andriushchenko , Ezio Bartocci , Milan Ceska , Francesco Pontiggia , Sarah Sallinger

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one of the well-known models to generate synthetic data including images, especially for research communities that cannot use original sensitive datasets because they are not publicly accessible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani , Peter Kairouz , Benedict Paten

In this paper, a set-membership filtering-based leader-follower synchronization protocol for discrete-time linear multi-agent systems is proposed wherein the aim is to make the agents synchronize with a leader. The agents, governed by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-09 Diganta Bhattacharjee , Kamesh Subbarao

Generating high-quality synthetic text under differential privacy (DP) is critical for training and evaluating language models without compromising user privacy. Prior work on synthesizing DP datasets often fail to preserve key statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuzheng Hu , Ryan McKenna , Da Yu , Shanshan Wu , Han Zhao , Zheng Xu , Peter Kairouz

Designing tests to evaluate if a given autonomous system satisfies complex specifications is challenging due to the complexity of these systems. This work proposes a flow-based approach for reactive test synthesis from temporal logic…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Josefine B. Graebener , Apurva S. Badithela , Denizalp Goktas , Wyatt Ubellacker , Eric V. Mazumdar , Aaron D. Ames , Richard M. Murray

This paper develops a framework for synthesizing safety controllers for discrete-time stochastic linear control systems (dt-SLS) operating under communication imperfections. The control unit is remote and communicates with the sensor and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Omid Akbarzadeh , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Abolfazl Lavaei

We provide a differentially private algorithm for producing synthetic data simultaneously useful for multiple tasks: marginal queries and multitask machine learning (ML). A key innovation in our algorithm is the ability to directly handle…

We consider the problem of generating randomized control sequences for complex networked systems typically actuated by human agents. Our approach leverages a concept known as control improvisation, which is based on a combination of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Ilge Akkaya , Daniel J. Fremont , Rafael Valle , Alexandre Donzé , Edward A. Lee , Sanjit A. Seshia

The massive upsurge in computational and storage has driven the local data and machine learning applications to the cloud environment. The owners may not fully trust the cloud environment as it is managed by third parties. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Rishabh Gupta , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

We develop a privacy-preserving distributed projection least mean squares (LMS) strategy over linear multitask networks, where agents' local parameters of interest or tasks are linearly related. Each agent is interested in not only…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Chengcheng Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Ye Wei , Yuan Wang

Differential privacy (DP) enables safe data release, with synthetic data generation emerging as a common approach in recent years. Yet standard synthesizers preserve all dependencies in the data, including spurious correlations between…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Naeim Ghahramanpour , Mostafa Milani

Automatic synthesis from linear temporal logic (LTL) specifications is widely used in robotic motion planning, control of autonomous systems, and load distribution in power networks. A common specification pattern in such applications…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Rayna Dimitrova , Mahsa Ghasemi , Ufuk Topcu