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We study a market for private data in which a data analyst publicly releases a statistic over a database of private information. Individuals that own the data incur a cost for their loss of privacy proportional to the differential privacy…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-01 Pranav Dandekar , Nadia Fawaz , Stratis Ioannidis

Strategic information is valuable either by remaining private (for instance if it is sensitive) or, on the other hand, by being used publicly to increase some utility. These two objectives are antagonistic and leaking this information might…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-03 Etienne Boursier , Vianney Perchet

We study privacy-preserving sparse linear regression in the high-dimensional regime, focusing on the LASSO estimator. We analyze two widely used mechanisms for differential privacy: output perturbation, which injects noise into the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-06 Ayaka Sakata , Haruka Tanzawa

We study a security problem for interconnected systems, where each subsystem aims to detect local attacks using local measurements and information exchanged with neighboring subsystems. The subsystems also wish to maintain the privacy of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-25 Vaibhav Katewa , Rajasekhar Anguluri , Fabio Pasqualetti

We consider a user releasing her data containing some personal information in return of a service. We model user's personal information as two correlated random variables, one of them, called the secret variable, is to be kept private,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Ecenaz Erdemir , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

We study an information-theoretic privacy mechanism design, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ and wants to reveal the information to a user. Since the useful data is correlated with the private data $X$, the agent uses a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Amirreza Zamani , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund

The rate-privacy function is defined in \cite{Asoodeh} as a tradeoff between privacy and utility in a distributed private data system in which both privacy and utility are measured using mutual information. Here, we use maximal correlation…

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

The synergetic gains of spectrum sharing and millimeter wave communication networks have recently attracted attention, owing to the interference canceling benefits of highly-directional beamforming in such systems. In principle, fine-tuned…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-02 Flavio Maschietti , Paul de Kerret , David Gesbert

We propose a general learning framework for the protection mechanisms that protects privacy via distorting model parameters, which facilitates the trade-off between privacy and utility. The algorithm is applicable to arbitrary privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaojin Zhang , Wenjie Li , Kai Chen , Shutao Xia , Qiang Yang

Data holders are increasingly seeking to protect their user's privacy, whilst still maximizing their ability to produce machine models with high quality predictions. In this work, we empirically evaluate various implementations of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Nicolas Kourtellis

As multi-agent systems proliferate, there is increasing demand for coordination protocols that protect agents' sensitive information while allowing them to collaborate. To help address this need, this paper presents a differentially private…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Calvin Hawkins , Matthew Hale

Differential privacy is a notion of privacy that has become very popular in the database community. Roughly, the idea is that a randomized query mechanism provides sufficient privacy protection if the ratio between the probabilities that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Mário S. Alvim , Miguel E. Andrés , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Pierpaolo Degano , Catuscia Palamidessi

We study a statistical signal processing privacy problem, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ and wants to reveal the information to a user. Since the useful data is correlated with the private data $X$, the agent employs a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

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

Machine learning is increasingly used in the most diverse applications and domains, whether in healthcare, to predict pathologies, or in the financial sector to detect fraud. One of the linchpins for efficiency and accuracy in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Tânia Carvalho , Nuno Moniz , Pedro Faria , Luís Antunes

Privacy-aware multiagent systems must protect agents' sensitive data while simultaneously ensuring that agents accomplish their shared objectives. Towards this goal, we propose a framework to privatize inter-agent communications in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Bo Chen , Calvin Hawkins , Mustafa O. Karabag , Cyrus Neary , Matthew Hale , Ufuk Topcu

The privacy-utility tradeoff problem is formulated as determining the privacy mechanism (random mapping) that minimizes the mutual information (a metric for privacy leakage) between the private features of the original dataset and a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kousha Kalantari , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

It is often necessary to disclose training data to the public domain, while protecting privacy of certain sensitive labels. We use information theoretic measures to develop such privacy preserving data disclosure mechanisms. Our mechanism…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Tianrui Xiao , Ashish Khisti

We develop a privacy-preserving distributed projection least mean squares (LMS) strategy over linear multitask networks, where agents' local parameters of interest or tasks are linearly related. Each agent is interested in not only…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Chengcheng Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Ye Wei , Yuan Wang

In a survey disclosure model, we consider an additive noise privacy mechanism and study the trade-off between privacy guarantees and statistical utility. Privacy is approached from two different but complementary viewpoints: information and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Mario Diaz , Shahab Asoodeh , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder , Serban Belinschi , James Mingo