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Composition is one of the most important properties of differential privacy (DP), as it allows algorithm designers to build complex private algorithms from DP primitives. We consider precise composition bounds of the overall privacy loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Jinshuo Dong , David Durfee , Ryan Rogers

This paper introduces a conversational interface system that enables participatory design of differentially private AI systems in public sector applications. Addressing the challenge of balancing mathematical privacy guarantees with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Wenjun Yang , Eyhab Al-Masri

Data collected about individuals is regularly used to make decisions that impact those same individuals. We consider settings where sensitive personal data is used to decide who will receive resources or benefits. While it is well known…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Satya Kuppam , Ryan Mckenna , David Pujol , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Gerome Miklau

Estimating causal effects from randomized experiments is only possible if participants are willing to disclose their potentially sensitive responses. Differential privacy, a widely used framework for ensuring an algorithms privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni , Jean Pouget-Abadie

Differential privacy is a standard framework to quantify the privacy loss in the data anonymization process. To preserve differential privacy, a random noise adding mechanism is widely adopted, where the trade-off between data privacy level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shuying Qin , Jianping He , Chongrong Fang , James Lam

For the modeling, design and planning of future energy transmission networks, it is vital for stakeholders to access faithful and useful power flow data, while provably maintaining the privacy of business confidentiality of service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 David Smith , Frederik Geth , Elliott Vercoe , Andrew Feutrill , Ming Ding , Jonathan Chan , James Foster , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

Federated learning (FL) aims to collaboratively train the global model in a distributed manner by sharing the model parameters from local clients to a central server, thereby potentially protecting users' private information. Nevertheless,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhe Li , Honglong Chen , Zhichen Ni , Huajie Shao

We introduce a differentially private manifold denoising framework that allows users to exploit sensitive reference datasets to correct noisy, non-private query points without compromising privacy. The method follows an iterative procedure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiaqi Wu , Yiqing Sun , Zhigang Yao

The collection of individuals' data has become commonplace in many industries. Local differential privacy (LDP) offers a rigorous approach to preserving privacy whereby the individual privatises their data locally, allowing only their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alex Mansbridge , Gregory Barbour , Davide Piras , Michael Murray , Christopher Frye , Ilya Feige , David Barber

We study the privatization of distributed learning and optimization strategies. We focus on differential privacy schemes and study their effect on performance. We show that the popular additive random perturbation scheme degrades…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed agents to collaboratively learn a centralized model without sharing their raw data with each other. However, data locality does not provide sufficient privacy protection, and it is desirable to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Rui Hu , Yanmin Gong , Yuanxiong Guo

Distributed algorithms enable private Optimal Power Flow (OPF) computations by avoiding the need in sharing sensitive information localized in algorithms sub-problems. However, adversaries can still infer this information from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Vladimir Dvorkin , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Jalal Kazempour , Pierre Pinson

We introduce DP-FinDiff, a differentially private diffusion framework for synthesizing mixed-type tabular data. DP-FinDiff employs embedding-based representations for categorical features, reducing encoding overhead and scaling to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

We study mechanisms for differential privacy on finite datasets. By deriving \emph{sufficient sets} for differential privacy we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for differential privacy, a tight lower bound on the maximal expected…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Naoise Holohan , Doug Leith , Oliver Mason

This paper investigates privacy-preserving distributed cooperative control for multi-agent systems within the framework of differential privacy. In cooperative control, communication noise is inevitable and is usually regarded as a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Yuwen Ma , Sarah K. Spurgeon , Tao Li , Boli Chen

Differential Privacy (DP) is an important privacy-enhancing technology for private machine learning systems. It allows to measure and bound the risk associated with an individual participation in a computation. However, it was recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Cuong Tran , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to protect data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. The DP techniques, however, hinder achieving a greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

Differential privacy is one of the methods to solve the problem of privacy protection in federated learning. Setting the same privacy budget for each round will result in reduced accuracy in training. The existing methods of the adjustment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhiqiang Wang , Xinyue Yu , Qianli Huang , Yongguang Gong

In recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a technique of choice for privacy-preserving data collection in several scenarios when the aggregator is not trustworthy. LDP provides client-side privacy by adding noise at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Tejas Kulkarni , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

This paper investigates a distributed formation tracking control law for large-scale networks of mechanical systems. In particular, the formation network is represented by a directed communication graph with leaders and followers, where…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-18 N. Javanmardi , P. Borja , M. J. Yazdanpanah , J. M. A. Scherpen