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Many commonly used learning algorithms work by iteratively updating an intermediate solution using one or a few data points in each iteration. Analysis of differential privacy for such algorithms often involves ensuring privacy of each step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

Many differentially private algorithms for answering database queries involve a step that reconstructs a discrete data distribution from noisy measurements. This provides consistent query answers and reduces error, but often requires space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ryan McKenna , Siddhant Pradhan , Daniel Sheldon , Gerome Miklau

Probabilistic relational models provide a well-established formalism to combine first-order logic and probabilistic models, thereby allowing to represent relationships between objects in a relational domain. At the same time, the field of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Malte Luttermann , Ralf Möller , Mattis Hartwig

We consider the problem of generating private synthetic versions of real-world graphs containing private information while maintaining the utility of generated graphs. Differential privacy is a gold standard for data privacy, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Xu Zheng , Nicholas McCarthy , Jer Hayes

This paper explores the strategic use of modern synthetic data generation and advanced data perturbation techniques to enhance security, maintain analytical utility, and improve operational efficiency when managing large datasets, with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Anantha Sharma , Swetha Devabhaktuni , Eklove Mohan

Personalization is crucial for aligning Large Language Model (LLM) outputs with individual user preferences and background knowledge. State-of-the-art solutions are based on retrieval augmentation, where relevant context from a user profile…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Alireza Salemi , Hamed Zamani

We present a framework for designing distorting mechanisms that allow remotely operating anomaly detectors while preserving privacy. We consider the problem setting in which a remote station seeks to identify anomalies using system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Haleh Hayati , Carlos Murguia , Nathan van de Wouw

The need to analyze sensitive data, such as medical records or financial data, has created a critical research challenge in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the framework of differential privacy, and explore mechanisms for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nikolija Bojkovic , Po-Ling Loh

When acting as a privacy-enhancing technology, synthetic data generation (SDG) aims to maintain a resemblance to the real data while excluding personally-identifiable information. Many SDG algorithms provide robust differential privacy (DP)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Steven Golob , Sikha Pentyala , Anuar Maratkhan , Martine De Cock

In the social sciences, small- to medium-scale datasets are common, and linear regression is canonical. In privacy-aware settings, much work has focused on differentially private (DP) linear regression, but mostly on point estimation with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shurong Lin , Aleksandra Slavković , Deekshith Reddy Bhoomireddy

High-fidelity generative models are increasingly needed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, where access to data is severely restricted due to regulatory and copyright constraints. This scarcity hampers model development--ironically, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xuemei Jia , Jiawei Du , Hui Wei , Jun Chen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Zheng Wang

The success of large language models (LLMs) has attracted many individuals to fine-tune them for domain-specific tasks by uploading their data. However, in sensitive areas like healthcare and finance, privacy concerns often arise. One…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jianwei Wang , Chengming Shi , Junyao Yang , Haoran Li , Qianli Ma , Huiping Zhuang , Cen Chen , Ziqian Zeng

We present a novel method for publishing differentially private synthetic attributed graphs. Unlike preceding approaches, our method is able to preserve the community structure of the original graph without sacrificing the ability to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xihui Chen , Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz

While location trajectories offer valuable insights, they also reveal sensitive personal information. Differential Privacy (DP) offers formal protection, but achieving a favourable utility-privacy trade-off remains challenging. Recent works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Erik Buchholz , Natasha Fernandes , David D. Nguyen , Alsharif Abuadbba , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere

Open data plays a fundamental role in the 21th century by stimulating economic growth and by enabling more transparent and inclusive societies. However, it is always difficult to create new high-quality datasets with the required privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Lorenzo Frigerio , Anderson Santana de Oliveira , Laurent Gomez , Patrick Duverger

In decision-making problems, the actions of an agent may reveal sensitive information that drives its decisions. For instance, a corporation's investment decisions may reveal its sensitive knowledge about market dynamics. To prevent this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Parham Gohari , Matthew Hale , Ufuk Topcu

To make medical datasets accessible without sharing sensitive patient information, we introduce a novel end-to-end approach for generative de-identification of dynamic medical imaging data. Until now, generative methods have faced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hadrien Reynaud , Qingjie Meng , Mischa Dombrowski , Arijit Ghosh , Thomas Day , Alberto Gomez , Paul Leeson , Bernhard Kainz

Machine learning heavily relies on data, but real-world applications often encounter various data-related issues. These include data of poor quality, insufficient data points leading to under-fitting of machine learning models, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yingzhou Lu , Lulu Chen , Yuanyuan Zhang , Minjie Shen , Huazheng Wang , Xiao Wang , Capucine van Rechem , Tianfan Fu , Wenqi Wei

As deep learning-based, data-driven information extraction systems become increasingly integrated into modern document processing workflows, one primary concern is the risk of malicious leakage of sensitive private data from these systems.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Saifullah Saifullah , Stefan Agne , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

Graph data is used in a wide range of applications, while analyzing graph data without protection is prone to privacy breach risks. To mitigate the privacy risks, we resort to the standard technique of differential privacy to publish a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Quan Yuan , Zhikun Zhang , Linkang Du , Min Chen , Peng Cheng , Mingyang Sun