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In this paper, we introduce an adaptation of the facility location problem and analyze it within the framework of local differential privacy (LDP). Under this model, we ensure the privacy of client presence at specific locations. When n is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kevin Pfisterer , Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

We study the problem of discrete distribution estimation under utility-optimized local differential privacy (ULDP), which enforces local differential privacy (LDP) on sensitive data while allowing more accurate inference on non-sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sun-Moon Yoon , Hyun-Young Park , Seung-Hyun Nam , Si-Hyeon Lee

Sensitive statistics are often collected across sets of users, with repeated collection of reports done over time. For example, trends in users' private preferences or software usage may be monitored via such reports. We study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Úlfar Erlingsson , Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Ananth Raghunathan , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

We optimize the trade-off between privacy and utility in the high-privacy regime. We adopt local differential privacy (LDP) and its quantum extension, quantum local differential privacy (QLDP), for privacy protection, and investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yuuya Yoshida

Local differential privacy is a differential privacy paradigm in which individuals first apply a privacy mechanism to their data (often by adding noise) before transmitting the result to a curator. The noise for privacy results in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Yuki Ohnishi , Jordan Awan

The development of Internet technology enables an analysis on the whole population rather than a certain number of samples, and leads to increasing requirement for privacy protection. Local differential privacy (LDP) is an effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-06 She Sun , Li Zhou , Xiaoran Yan

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

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

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

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

Concerns on location privacy frequently arise with the rapid development of GPS enabled devices and location-based applications. While spatial transformation techniques such as location perturbation or generalization have been studied…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Yonghui Xiao , Li Xiong

Several randomization mechanisms for local differential privacy (LDP) (e.g., randomized response) are well-studied to improve the utility. However, recent studies show that LDP is generally vulnerable to malicious data providers in nature.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Fumiyuki Kato , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

We analyze to what extent final users can infer information about the level of protection of their data when the data obfuscation mechanism is a priori unknown to them (the so-called ''black-box'' scenario). In particular, we delve into the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Daniele Gorla , Louis Jalouzot , Federica Granese , Catuscia Palamidessi , Pablo Piantanida

Privacy in Location-Based Services (LBS) has become a paramount concern with the ubiquity of mobile devices and the increasing integration of location data into various applications. This paper presents several novel contributions to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Anis Bkakria , Reda Yaich

Local differential privacy (LDP) provides a way for an untrusted data collector to aggregate users' data without violating their privacy. Various privacy-preserving data analysis tasks have been studied under the protection of LDP, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Wei Tong , Haoyu Chen , Jiacheng Niu , Sheng Zhong

Advanced adversarial attacks such as membership inference and model memorization can make federated learning (FL) vulnerable and potentially leak sensitive private data. Local differentially private (LDP) approaches are gaining more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler , Peter Bertok , Ibrahim Khalil

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

In-context learning (ICL) has shown promising improvement in downstream task adaptation of LLMs by augmenting prompts with relevant input-output examples (demonstrations). However, the ICL demonstrations can contain privacy-sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-03 James Flemings , Haosheng Gan , Hongyi Li , Meisam Razaviyayn , Murali Annavaram

Location-based services (LBS) have been significantly developed and widely deployed in mobile devices. It is also well-known that LBS applications may result in severe privacy concerns by collecting sensitive locations. A strong privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Han Wang , Hanbin Hong , Li Xiong , Zhan Qin , Yuan Hong

Locally Differentially Private (LDP) Reports are commonly used for collection of statistics and machine learning in the federated setting. In many cases the best known LDP algorithms require sending prohibitively large messages from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Vitaly Feldman , Kunal Talwar