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LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has been widely studied to estimate statistics of personal data (e.g., distribution underlying the data) while protecting users' privacy. Although LDP does not require a trusted third party, it regards all…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Takao Murakami , Yusuke Kawamoto

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has been widely recognized as a powerful tool for providing a strong theoretical guarantee of data privacy to data contributors against an untrusted data collector. Under a typical LDP scheme, each data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ye Zheng , Shafizur Rahman Seeam , Yidan Hu , Rui Zhang , Yanchao Zhang

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), a new type of attacks concerns the research community, namely Data Poisoning Attacks, which threaten the model integrity by maliciously altering training data. This paper introduces a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Nick Galanis

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

LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has recently attracted much attention as a metric of data privacy that prevents the inference of personal data from obfuscated data in the local model. However, there are scenarios in which the adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Takao Murakami , Kenta Takahashi

The advent of numerous indoor location-based services (LBSs) and the widespread use of many types of mobile devices in indoor environments have resulted in generating a massive amount of people's location data. While geo-spatial data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Hojjat Navidan , Vahideh Moghtadaiee , Niki Nazaran , Mina Alishahi

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

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

Item mining, a fundamental task for collecting statistical data from users, has raised increasing privacy concerns. To address these concerns, local differential privacy (LDP) was proposed as a privacy-preserving technique. Existing LDP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yulian Mao , Qingqing Ye , Rong Du , Qi Wang , Kai Huang , Haibo Hu

There are now several large scale deployments of differential privacy used to collect statistical information about users. However, these deployments periodically recollect the data and recompute the statistics using algorithms designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Matthew Joseph , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman , Bo Waggoner

Large-scale data collection, from national censuses to IoT-enabled smart homes, routinely gathers dozens of attributes per individual. These multi-attribute datasets are crucial for analytics but pose significant privacy risks. Local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shafizur Rahman Seeam , Ye Zheng , Yidan Hu

Collecting and analyzing evolving longitudinal data has become a common practice. One possible approach to protect the users' privacy in this context is to use local differential privacy (LDP) protocols, which ensure the privacy protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Héber H. Arcolezi , Carlos Pinzón , Catuscia Palamidessi , Sébastien Gambs

Estimating frequencies of certain items among a population is a basic step in data analytics, which enables more advanced data analytics (e.g., heavy hitter identification, frequent pattern mining), client software optimization, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Federated Learning (FL) allows multiple participants to train machine learning models collaboratively by keeping their datasets local while only exchanging model updates. Alas, this is not necessarily free from privacy and robustness…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Mohammad Naseri , Jamie Hayes , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Differential Privacy (DP) has become the gold standard for protecting individual privacy in data analytics, and the shuffle-DP model has attracted significant attention from both academia and industry due to its favorable balance between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Siyi Wang , Qiyao Luo , Yihua Hu , Lixu Wang , Quanqing Xu , Chuanhui Yang , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren , Wei Dong

Conformal prediction (CP) provides sets of candidate classes with a guaranteed probability of containing the true class. However, it typically relies on a calibration set with clean labels. We address privacy-sensitive scenarios where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Coby Penso , Bar Mahpud , Jacob Goldberger , Or Sheffet

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong privacy guarantees without requiring users to trust external parties. However, LDP applies uniform protection to all data features, including less sensitive ones, which degrades performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade , Alireza Fallah , Michael I. Jordan

Differential Privacy (DP) was originally developed to protect privacy. However, it has recently been utilized to secure machine learning (ML) models from poisoning attacks, with DP-SGD receiving substantial attention. Nevertheless, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fereshteh Razmi , Jian Lou , Li Xiong

We investigate whether Differentially Private SGD offers better privacy in practice than what is guaranteed by its state-of-the-art analysis. We do so via novel data poisoning attacks, which we show correspond to realistic privacy attacks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Matthew Jagielski , Jonathan Ullman , Alina Oprea

Large language models (LLMs) are often fine-tuned on uncurated text datasets that adversaries can poison. Existing poisoning attacks primarily rely on fixed trigger phrases that defenses such as outlier detection, clean-data regularization,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zedian Shao , Charles Fleming , Teodora Baluta