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Differential privacy (DP) considers a scenario, where an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy thread for an individual in real life.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

Differential Privacy (DP) is a well-established framework to quantify privacy loss incurred by any algorithm. Traditional formulations impose a uniform privacy requirement for all users, which is often inconsistent with real-world scenarios…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Konstantin Miagkov , Thomas A. Courtade

We investigate the tradeoff between privacy and utility in a situation where both privacy and utility are measured in terms of mutual information. For the binary case, we fully characterize this tradeoff in case of perfect privacy and also…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Shahab Asoodeh , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

Local differential privacy (LDP) has recently become a popular privacy-preserving data collection technique protecting users' privacy. The main problem of data stream collection under LDP is the poor utility due to multi-item collection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ying Li , Xiaodong Lee , Botao Peng , Themis Palpanas , Jingan Xue

This paper introduces the multi-freq-ldpy Python package for multiple frequency estimation under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) guarantees. LDP is a gold standard for achieving local privacy with several real-world implementations by big…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Héber H. Arcolezi , Jean-François Couchot , Sébastien Gambs , Catuscia Palamidessi , Majid Zolfaghari

Link prediction (LP) algorithms propose to each node a ranked list of nodes that are currently non-neighbors, as the most likely candidates for future linkage. Owing to increasing concerns about privacy, users (nodes) may prefer to keep…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Abir De , Soumen Chakrabarti

We initiate the study of locally differentially private (LDP) learning with public features. We define semi-feature LDP, where some features are publicly available while the remaining ones, along with the label, require protection under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-12 Yuheng Ma , Ke Jia , Hanfang Yang

Differential privacy (DP) enables private data analysis. In a typical DP deployment, controllers manage individuals' sensitive data and are responsible for answering analysts' queries while protecting individuals' privacy. They do so by…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiru Zhu , Raul Castro Fernandez

We initiate an investigation of node differential privacy for graphs in the local model of private data analysis. In our model, dubbed LNDP*, each node sees its own edge list and releases the output of a local randomizer on this input.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith , Connor Wagaman , Anatoly Zavyalov

Differential privacy is a strong notion for privacy that can be used to prove formal guarantees, in terms of a privacy budget, $\epsilon$, about how much information is leaked by a mechanism. However, implementations of privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Bargav Jayaraman , David Evans

Most deep learning frameworks require users to pool their local data or model updates to a trusted server to train or maintain a global model. The assumption of a trusted server who has access to user information is ill-suited in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lingjuan Lyu , Yitong Li , Xuanli He , Tong Xiao

Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Generation (PP-SDG) has emerged to produce synthetic datasets from personal data while maintaining privacy and utility. Differential privacy (DP) is the property of a PP-SDG mechanism that establishes how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Frederik Marinus Trudslev , Matteo Lissandrini , Juan Manuel Rodriguez , Martin Bøgsted , Daniele Dell'Aglio

Big data is a term used for a very large data sets that have many difficulties in storing and processing the data. Analysis this much amount of data will lead to information loss. The main goal of this paper is to share data in a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jalpesh Vasa , Panthini Modi

This paper considers subject level privacy in the FL setting, where a subject is an individual whose private information is embodied by several data items either confined within a single federation user or distributed across multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Virendra J. Marathe , Pallika Kanani , Daniel W. Peterson , Guy Steele

Individual Differential Privacy (iDP) promises users control over their privacy, but this promise can be broken in practice. We reveal a previously overlooked vulnerability in sampling-based iDP mechanisms: while conforming to the iDP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Johannes Kaiser , Alexander Ziller , Eleni Triantafillou , Daniel Rückert , Georgios Kaissis

The problem of private information "leakage" (inadvertently or by malicious design) from the myriad large centralized searchable data repositories drives the need for an analytical framework that quantifies unequivocally how safe private…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-02-09 Lalitha Sankar , S. Raj Rajagopalan , H. Vincent Poor

The design of protocols for local differential privacy (or LDP) has been a topic of considerable research interest in recent years. LDP protocols utilise the randomised encoding of outcomes of an experiment using a transition probability…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Maura B. Paterson , Douglas R. Stinson

Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) generalizes Local Differential Privacy (LDP) by adapting privacy guarantees based on pairwise distances, enabling context-aware protection and improved utility. While existing optimization-based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Chenxi Qiu

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for tackling complex tasks across diverse domains, but they also raise privacy concerns when fine-tuned on sensitive data due to potential memorization. While differential privacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Lynn Chua , Badih Ghazi , Yangsibo Huang , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Daogao Liu , Pasin Manurangsi , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enables organizations to collaboratively train models without sharing their datasets. Despite this advantage, recent studies show that both client updates and the global model can leak private information, limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rouzbeh Behnia , Jeremiah Birrell , Arman Riasi , Reza Ebrahimi , Kaushik Dutta , Thang Hoang