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Sequential querying of differentially private mechanisms degrades the overall privacy level. In this paper, we answer the fundamental question of characterizing the level of overall privacy degradation as a function of the number of queries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

Taking online decisions is a part of everyday life. Think of buying a house, parking a car or taking part in an auction. We often take those decisions publicly, which may breach our privacy - a party observing our choices may learn a lot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Krzysztof Grining , Marek Klonowski , Małgorzata Sulkowska

Much of the research in differential privacy has focused on offline applications with the assumption that all data is available at once. When these algorithms are applied in practice to streams where data is collected over time, this either…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Girish Kumar , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Opacity, or non-interference, is a property ensuring that an external observer cannot infer confidential information (the "secret") from system observations. We introduce an information-theoretic measure of opacity, which quantifies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Chongyang Shi , Sumukha Udupa , Michael R. Dorothy , Shuo Han , Jie Fu

Making evidence based decisions requires data. However for real-world applications, the privacy of data is critical. Using synthetic data which reflects certain statistical properties of the original data preserves the privacy of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Varun Chandrasekaran , Darren Edge , Somesh Jha , Amit Sharma , Cheng Zhang , Shruti Tople

In distributed computing environments, collaborative machine learning enables multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively. To preserve privacy in such settings, a common technique is to utilize frequent updates and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Chia-Yuan Wu , Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation is a practical method for improving access to data as a means to encourage productive partnerships. One issue inherent to DP is that the "privacy budget" is generally "spent" evenly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Lucas Rosenblatt , Joshua Allen , Julia Stoyanovich

In distributed optimization and iterative consensus literature, a standard problem is for $N$ agents to minimize a function $f$ over a subset of Euclidean space, where the cost function is expressed as a sum $\sum f_i$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Nitin Vaidya

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees for machine learning applications. Much recent work has been focused on developing differentially private models, however there has been a gap in other stages of the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ashly Lau , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

Convex optimization finds many real-life applications, where--optimized on real data--optimization results may expose private data attributes (e.g., individual health records, commercial information), thus leading to privacy breaches. To…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Vladimir Dvorkin , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Pierre Pinson , Jalal Kazempour

We study the computational cost of differential privacy in terms of memory efficiency. While the trade-off between accuracy and differential privacy is well-understood, the inherent cost of privacy regarding memory use remains largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alessandro Epasto , Xin Lyu , Pasin Manurangsi

Data sharing is a prerequisite for collaborative innovation, enabling organizations to leverage diverse datasets for deeper insights. In real-world applications like FinTech and Smart Manufacturing, transactional data, often in tabular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Mengmeng Yang , Chi-Hung Chi , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jie Feng , Taolin Guo , Wei Ni

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

Recent advancements in generative AI have made it possible to create synthetic datasets that can be as accurate as real-world data for training AI models, powering statistical insights, and fostering collaboration with sensitive datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Amy Steier , Lipika Ramaswamy , Andre Manoel , Alexa Haushalter

When analysing Differentially Private (DP) machine learning pipelines, the potential privacy cost of data-dependent pre-processing is frequently overlooked in privacy accounting. In this work, we propose a general framework to evaluate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yaxi Hu , Amartya Sanyal , Bernhard Schölkopf

Creation of a synthetic dataset that faithfully represents the data distribution and simultaneously preserves privacy is a major research challenge. Many space partitioning based approaches have emerged in recent years for answering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Eleonora Kreačić , Navid Nouri , Vamsi K. Potluru , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

Differential privacy is a formal, mathematical definition of data privacy that has gained traction in academia, industry, and government. The task of correctly constructing differentially private algorithms is non-trivial, and mistakes have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Subhajit Roy , Justin Hsu , Aws Albarghouthi

The purpose of this paper is to develop a mathematical analysis theory to solve differential privacy problems. The heart of our approaches is to use analytic tools to characterize the correlations among the outputs of different datasets,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Genqiang Wu , Xianyao Xia , Yeping He

The design of a statistical signal processing privacy problem is studied where the private data is assumed to be observable. In this work, an agent observes useful data $Y$, which is correlated with private data $X$, and wants to disclose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

While pursuing better utility by discovering knowledge from the data, individual's privacy may be compromised during an analysis. To that end, differential privacy has been widely recognized as the state-of-the-art privacy notion. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Meisam Mohammady