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New regulations and increased awareness of data privacy have led to the deployment of new and more efficient differentially private mechanisms across public institutions and industries. Ensuring the correctness of these mechanisms is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 William Kong , Andrés Muñoz Medina , Mónica Ribero , Umar Syed

Differential privacy is a promising formal approach to data privacy, which provides a quantitative bound on the privacy cost of an algorithm that operates on sensitive information. Several tools have been developed for the formal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Gilles Barthe , Noémie Fong , Marco Gaboardi , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Pierre-Yves Strub

As a mathematically rigorous framework that has amassed a rich theoretical literature, differential privacy is considered by many experts to be the gold standard for privacy-preserving data analysis. Others argue that while differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Rachel Cummings , Jayshree Sarathy

Differential Privacy (DP) is an important privacy-enhancing technology for private machine learning systems. It allows to measure and bound the risk associated with an individual participation in a computation. However, it was recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Cuong Tran , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

Computational differential privacy (CDP) is a natural relaxation of the standard notion of (statistical) differential privacy (SDP) proposed by Beimel, Nissim, and Omri (CRYPTO 2008) and Mironov, Pandey, Reingold, and Vadhan (CRYPTO 2009).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Badih Ghazi , Rahul Ilango , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Differential privacy enables general statistical analysis of data with formal guarantees of privacy protection at the individual level. Tools that assist data analysts with utilizing differential privacy have frequently taken the form of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Chike Abuah , Alex Silence , David Darais , Joe Near

Differential privacy is a promising privacy-preserving paradigm for statistical query processing over sensitive data. It works by injecting random noise into each query result, such that it is provably hard for the adversary to infer the…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Ganzhao Yuan , Zhenjie Zhang , Marianne Winslett , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Zhifeng Hao

Differential privacy (DP) is a compelling privacy definition that explains the privacy-utility tradeoff via formal, provable guarantees. Inspired by recent progress toward general-purpose data release algorithms, we propose a private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Data privacy is a core tenet of responsible computing, and in the United States, differential privacy (DP) is the dominant technical operationalization of privacy-preserving data analysis. With this study, we qualitatively examine one class…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lucas Rosenblatt , Bill Howe , Julia Stoyanovich

In differential privacy, random noise is introduced to privatize summary statistics of a sensitive dataset before releasing them. The noise level determines the privacy loss, which quantifies how easily an adversary can detect a target…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Youngjoo Yun , Rishabh Dudeja

We study the application of differential privacy in hyper-parameter tuning, a crucial process in machine learning involving selecting the best hyper-parameter from several candidates. Unlike many private learning algorithms, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Chenglong Wang , Di Wang

Differential privacy is a leading protection setting, focused by design on individual privacy. Many applications, in medical / pharmaceutical domains or social networks, rather posit privacy at a group level, a setting we call integral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-04 Hisham Husain , Zac Cranko , Richard Nock

In a technical treatment, this article establishes the necessity of transparent privacy for drawing unbiased statistical inference for a wide range of scientific questions. Transparency is a distinct feature enjoyed by differential privacy:…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-20 Ruobin Gong

Differential Privacy (DP) provides strong guarantees on the risk of compromising a user's data in statistical learning applications, though these strong protections make learning challenging and may be too stringent for some use cases. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Hilal Asi , John Duchi , Omid Javidbakht

Differential privacy is a modern approach in privacy-preserving data analysis to control the amount of information that can be inferred about an individual by querying a database. The most common techniques are based on the introduction of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Catuscia Palamidessi , Marco Stronati

There has been increasing demand for establishing privacy-preserving methodologies for modern statistics and machine learning. Differential privacy, a mathematical notion from computer science, is a rising tool offering robust privacy…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-09 Shurong Lin , Elliot Paquette , Eric D. Kolaczyk

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

Differential privacy guarantees allow the results of a statistical analysis involving sensitive data to be released without compromising the privacy of any individual taking part. Achieving such guarantees generally requires the injection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-31 Jack Jewson , Sahra Ghalebikesabi , Chris Holmes

Ratio statistics--such as relative risk and odds ratios--play a central role in hypothesis testing, model evaluation, and decision-making across many areas of machine learning, including causal inference and fairness analysis. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-28 Tomer Shoham , Katrina Ligettt

Differential privacy has become the preeminent technique to protect the privacy of individuals in a database while allowing useful results from data analysis to be shared. Notably, it guarantees the amount of privacy loss in the worst-case…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Arin Ghazarian , Jianwei Zheng , Cyril Rakovski