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As a staple of data analysis and unsupervised learning, the problem of private clustering has been widely studied under various privacy models. Centralized differential privacy is the first of them, and the problem has also been studied for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Max Dupré la Tour , Monika Henzinger , David Saulpic

We consider the problem of collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific distributions. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yauhen Yakimenka , Chung-Wei Weng , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

We consider the standard $K$-armed bandit problem under a distributed trust model of differential privacy (DP), which enables to guarantee privacy without a trustworthy server. Under this trust model, previous work largely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Xingyu Zhou

Local differential privacy (LDP) enables the efficient release of aggregate statistics without having to trust the central server (aggregator), as in the central model of differential privacy, and simultaneously protects a client's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tariq Bontekoe , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Fatih Turkmen

For scalable machine learning on large data sets, subsampling a representative subset is a common approach for efficient model training. This is often achieved through importance sampling, whereby informative data points are sampled more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Dominik Fay , Sebastian Mair , Jens Sjölund

We revisit the problem of releasing the sample mean of bounded samples in a dataset, privately, under user-level $\varepsilon$-differential privacy (DP). We aim to derive the optimal method of preprocessing data samples, within a canonical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-12 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Anshoo Tandon

We study the private $k$-median and $k$-means clustering problem in $d$ dimensional Euclidean space. By leveraging tree embeddings, we give an efficient and easy to implement algorithm, that is empirically competitive with state of the art…

We present an improved $(\epsilon, \delta)$-jointly differentially private algorithm for packing problems. Our algorithm gives a feasible output that is approximately optimal up to an $\alpha n$ additive factor as long as the supply of each…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Zhiyi Huang , Xue Zhu

This paper studies the distributed least-squares optimization problem with differential privacy requirement of local cost functions, for which two differentially private distributed solvers are proposed. The first is established on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Weijia Liu , Lei Wang , Fanghong Guo , Zhengguang Wu , Hongye Su

We consider the problem of continually releasing an estimate of the population mean of a stream of samples that is user-level differentially private (DP). At each time instant, a user contributes a sample, and the users can arrive in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Anand Jerry George , Lekshmi Ramesh , Aditya Vikram Singh , Himanshu Tyagi

We study the sample complexity of learning threshold functions under the constraint of differential privacy. It is assumed that each labeled example in the training data is the information of one individual and we would like to come up with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haim Kaplan , Katrina Ligett , Yishay Mansour , Moni Naor , Uri Stemmer

Many resource allocation problems can be formulated as an optimization problem whose constraints contain sensitive information about participating users. This paper concerns solving this kind of optimization problem in a distributed manner…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Shuo Han , Ufuk Topcu , George J. Pappas

A recent line of work initiated by Chiesa and Gur and further developed by Herman and Rothblum investigates the sample and communication complexity of verifying properties of distributions with the assistance of a powerful, knowledgeable,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Elbert Du , Cynthia Dwork , Pranay Tankala , Linjun Zhang

Nowadays, crowd sensing becomes increasingly more popular due to the ubiquitous usage of mobile devices. However, the quality of such human-generated sensory data varies significantly among different users. To better utilize sensory data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yaliang Li , Houping Xiao , Zhan Qin , Chenglin Miao , Lu Su , Jing Gao , Kui Ren , Bolin Ding

Trustworthy federated learning aims to achieve optimal performance while ensuring clients' privacy. Existing privacy-preserving federated learning approaches are mostly tailored for image data, lacking applications for time series data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Chenxi Huang , Chaoyang Jiang , Zhenghua Chen

Modern statistical estimation is often performed in a distributed setting where each sample belongs to a single user who shares their data with a central server. Users are typically concerned with preserving the privacy of their samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Róbert Busa-Fekete , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Andres Muñoz Medina , Umar Syed

One-shot federated learning enables multi-site inference with minimal communication. However, sharing summary statistics can still leak sensitive individual-level information when sites have only a small number of patients. In particular,…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-02 Keisuke Hanada , Toshio Shimokawa , Kazushi Maruo

Differential privacy comes equipped with multiple analytical tools for the design of private data analyses. One important tool is the so-called "privacy amplification by subsampling" principle, which ensures that a differentially private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Borja Balle , Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi

In this paper, we investigate the problem of differentially private distributed optimization. Recognizing that lower sensitivity leads to higher accuracy, we analyze the key factors influencing the sensitivity of differentially private…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are critical components in modern cyber-physical systems, enabling efficient data collection and fusion through spatially distributed sensors. However, the inherent risks of eavesdropping and packet dropouts…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-07 Jie Huang , Jason J. R. Liu , Xiao He