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User-level privacy is important in distributed systems. Previous research primarily focuses on the central model, while the local models have received much less attention. Under the central model, user-level DP is strictly stronger than the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-28 Puning Zhao , Li Shen , Rongfei Fan , Qingming Li , Huiwen Wu , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

Compressing the output of \epsilon-locally differentially private (LDP) randomizers naively leads to suboptimal utility. In this work, we demonstrate the benefits of using schemes that jointly compress and privatize the data using shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Abhin Shah , Wei-Ning Chen , Johannes Balle , Peter Kairouz , Lucas Theis

The rapid growth of smart devices such as phones, wearables, IoT sensors, and connected vehicles has led to an explosion of continuous time series data that offers valuable insights in healthcare, transportation, and more. However, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Bikash Chandra Singh , Md Jakir Hossain , Rafael Diaz , Sandip Roy , Ravi Mukkamala , Sachin Shetty

Distributed online stochastic optimization has received extensive attention in large-scale distributed learning and other related fields due to its unique advantage in processing streaming data. However, information exchange through the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Zhiguo Zhang , Cheng Kui , Qian Ma , Dongrui Wu

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong privacy protection, especially in settings in which the server collecting the data is untrusted. However, designing LDP mechanisms that achieve an optimal trade-off between privacy, utility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

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

Tensor-valued data, increasingly common in distributed big data applications like autonomous driving and smart healthcare, poses unique challenges for privacy protection due to its multidimensional structure and the risk of losing critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yachao Yuan , Xiao Tang , Yu Huang , Yingwen Wu , Jin Wang

We study the fundamental problem of frequency estimation under both privacy and communication constraints, where the data is distributed among $k$ parties. We consider two application scenarios: (1) one-shot, where the data is static and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Ziyue Huang , Yuan Qiu , Ke Yi , Graham Cormode

Sketches are widely used for frequency estimation of data with a large domain. However, sketches-based frequency estimation faces more challenges when considering privacy. Local differential privacy (LDP) is a solution to frequency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Meifan Zhang , Sixin Lin , Lihua Yin

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protocols enable the collection of randomized client messages for data analysis, without the necessity of a trusted data curator. Such protocols have been successfully deployed in real-world scenarios by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Bo Jiang , Wanrong Zhang , Donghang Lu , Jian Du , Qiang Yan

Join size estimation on sensitive data poses a risk of privacy leakage. Local differential privacy (LDP) is a solution to preserve privacy while collecting sensitive data, but it introduces significant noise when dealing with sensitive join…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Meifan Zhang , Xin Liu , Lihua Yin

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

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a model where users send privatized data to an untrusted central server whose goal it to solve some data analysis task. In the non-interactive version of this model the protocol consists of a single round…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Yuval Dagan , Vitaly Feldman

Local differential privacy (LDP), which perturbs the data of each user locally and only sends the noisy version of her information to the aggregator, is a popular privacy-preserving data collection mechanism. In LDP, the data collector…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Jiawei Duan , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

In this brief, we present an enhanced privacy-preserving distributed estimation algorithm, referred to as the ``Double-Private Algorithm," which combines the principles of both differential privacy (DP) and cryptography. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mehdi Korki , Fatemehsadat Hosseiniamin , Hadi Zayyani , Mehdi Bekrani

This work studies the distributed empirical risk minimization (ERM) problem under differential privacy (DP) constraint. Standard distributed algorithms achieve DP typically by perturbing all local subgradients with noise, leading to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Changxin Liu , Karl H. Johansson , Yang Shi

This paper focuses on the privacy-preserving multi-sensor fusion estimation (MSFE) problem with differential privacy considerations. Most existing research efforts are directed towards the exploration of traditional differential privacy,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Xinhao Yan , Bo Chen , Hailong Huang

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving data collection in distributed systems, where users contribute multi-dimensional records with potentially correlated attributes. Recent work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sandaru Jayawardana , Sennur Ulukus , Ming Ding , Kanchana Thilakarathna

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