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Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has become the de facto standard for privacy-preserving data collection in large-scale systems, in particular for the purpose of estimating frequencies. However, the current research landscape lacks a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ramon G. Gonze , Natasha Fernandes , Heber H. Arcolezi , Catuscia Palamidessi , Nataliia Bielova

We consider a platform's problem of collecting data from privacy sensitive users to estimate an underlying parameter of interest. We formulate this question as a Bayesian-optimal mechanism design problem, in which an individual can share…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Alireza Fallah , Ali Makhdoumi , Azarakhsh Malekian , Asuman Ozdaglar

For systems whose states implicate sensitive information, their privacy is of great concern. While notions like differential privacy have been successfully introduced to dynamical systems, it is still unclear how a system's privacy can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Le Liu , Yu Kawano , Ming Cao

Differential privacy (DP) has become the standard for private data analysis. Certain machine learning applications only require privacy protection for specific protected attributes. Using naive variants of differential privacy in such use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Saeed Mahloujifar , Chuan Guo , G. Edward Suh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

As multi-agent systems become more numerous and more data-driven, novel forms of privacy are needed in order to protect data types that are not accounted for by existing privacy frameworks. In this paper, we present a new form of privacy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Matthew T. Hale

Local differential privacy (LDP) gives a strong privacy guarantee to be used in a distributed setting like federated learning (FL). LDP mechanisms in FL protect a client's gradient by randomizing it on the client; however, how can we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Marin Matsumoto , Tsubasa Takahashi , Seng Pei Liew , Masato Oguchi

Differential privacy has emerged as a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. A popular variant is local differential privacy, where the data holder is the trusted curator. A major barrier, however, towards a wider adoption of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Joseph Geumlek , Kamalika Chaudhuri

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

A succinct histogram captures frequent items and their frequencies across clients and has become increasingly important for large-scale, privacy-sensitive machine learning applications. To develop a rigorous framework to guarantee privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Hsuan-Po Liu , Hessam Mahdavifar

This paper delves into the intricate landscape of privacy notions, specifically honed in on the local setting. Central to our discussion is the juxtaposition of point-wise protection and average-case protection, offering a comparative…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Nan Wang , Likun Qin , Tianshuo Qiu

The excessive use of images in social networks, government databases, and industrial applications has posed great privacy risks and raised serious concerns from the public. Even though differential privacy (DP) is a widely accepted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hanyu Xue , Bo Liu , Ming Ding , Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Li Song , Wanlei Zhou

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) has become an essential strategy for adapting them to specialized tasks; however, this process introduces significant privacy challenges, as sensitive training data may be inadvertently memorized and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Hao Du , Shang Liu , Yang Cao

In the literature of data privacy, differential privacy is the most popular model. An algorithm is differentially private if its outputs with and without any individual's data are indistinguishable. In this paper, we focus on data generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Darshan Chakrabarti , Jie Gao , Aditya Saraf , Grant Schoenebeck , Fang-Yi Yu

Differential Privacy (DP) is commonly employed to safeguard graph analysis or publishing. Distance, a critical factor in graph analysis, is typically handled using curator DP, where a trusted curator holds the complete neighbor lists of all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weihong Sheng , Jiajun Chen , Bin Cai , Chunqiang Hu , Meng Han , Jiguo Yu

Differential Privacy (DP) considers a scenario in which an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database. This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy threat faced by an individual in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

Label differential privacy (label-DP) is a popular framework for training private ML models on datasets with public features and sensitive private labels. Despite its rigorous privacy guarantee, it has been observed that in practice…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ruihan Wu , Jin Peng Zhou , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Chuan Guo

Differential privacy has emerged as the main definition for private data analysis and machine learning. The {\em global} model of differential privacy, which assumes that users trust the data collector, provides strong privacy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Joshua Allen , Bolin Ding , Janardhan Kulkarni , Harsha Nori , Olga Ohrimenko , Sergey Yekhanin

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protocols enable an untrusted data collector to perform privacy-preserving data analytics. In particular, each user locally perturbs its data to preserve privacy before sending it to the data collector, who…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

With the increasing importance of data privacy, Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has recently become a strong measure of privacy for protecting each user's privacy from data analysts without relying on a trusted third party. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Shun Zhang , Hai Zhu , Zhili Chen , Haibo Hu

Data privacy is a major issue for many decades, several techniques have been developed to make sure individuals' privacy but still world has seen privacy failures. In 2006, Cynthia Dwork gave the idea of Differential Privacy which gave…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Muhammad Aitsam