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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

An information-theoretic privacy mechanism design is studied, where an agent observes useful data $Y$ which is correlated with the private data $X$. The agent wants to reveal the information to a user, hence, the agent utilizes a privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Amirreza Zamani , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund

Consider a data publishing setting for a dataset composed by both private and non-private features. The publisher uses an empirical distribution, estimated from $n$ i.i.d. samples, to design a privacy mechanism which is applied to new fresh…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-23 Mario Diaz , Hao Wang , Flavio P. Calmon , Lalitha Sankar

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

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

The collection and sharing of genomic data are becoming increasingly commonplace in research, clinical, and direct-to-consumer settings. The computational protocols typically adopted to protect individual privacy include sharing summary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Rajagopal Venkatesaramani , Zhiyu Wan , Bradley A. Malin , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

A central issue in machine learning is how to train models on sensitive user data. Industry has widely adopted a simple algorithm: Stochastic Gradient Descent with noise (a.k.a. Stochastic Gradient Langevin Dynamics). However, foundational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jason M. Altschuler , Kunal Talwar

This paper presents a stochastic sampling framework for privacy-aware data sharing, where a sensor observes a process correlated with private information. A sampler determines whether to retain or discard sensor observations, balancing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-22 Chuanghong Weng , Ehsan Nekouei

Perfect data privacy seems to be in fundamental opposition to the economical and scientific opportunities associated with extensive data exchange. Defying this intuition, this paper develops a framework that allows the disclosure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Borzoo Rassouli , Fernando E. Rosas , Deniz Gunduz

In the present paper, we investigate the fundamental trade-off of identification, secrecy, storage, and privacy-leakage rates in biometric identification systems for hidden or remote Gaussian sources. We introduce a technique for deriving…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Vamoua Yachongka , Hideki Yagi , Yasutada Oohama

With the reduction of sequencing costs and the pervasiveness of computing devices, genomic data collection is continually growing. However, data collection is highly fragmented and the data is still siloed across different repositories.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Leonard Dervishi , Xinyue Wang , Wentao Li , Anisa Halimi , Jaideep Vaidya , Xiaoqian Jiang , Erman Ayday

We consider the problem of sharing correlated data under a perfect information-theoretic privacy constraint. We focus on redaction (erasure) mechanisms, in which data are either withheld or released unchanged, and measure utility by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Fangwei Ye , Zonghong Liu , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb

Genomic data provides clinical researchers with vast opportunities to study various patient ailments. Yet the same data contains revealing information, some of which a patient might want to remain concealed. The question then arises: how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-14 Kato Mivule

The ability to share social network data at the level of individual connections is beneficial to science: not only for reproducing results, but also for researchers who may wish to use it for purposes not foreseen by the data releaser.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Daniele Romanini , Sune Lehmann , Mikko Kivelä

The cost of DNA sequencing has resulted in a surge of genetic data being utilised to improve scientific research, clinical procedures, and healthcare delivery in recent years. Since the human genome can uniquely identify an individual, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Sara Jafarbeiki , Raj Gaire , Amin Sakzad , Shabnam Kasra Kermanshahi , Ron Steinfeld

The genome is a unique identifier for human individuals. The genome also contains highly sensitive information, creating a high potential for misuse of genomic data (for example, genetic discrimination). In this paper, I investigated how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Isabel Wagner

In this work we analyze the problem of, given the probability distribution of a population, questioning an unknown individual that is representative of the distribution so that our uncertainty about certain characteristics is significantly…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-01-22 David Pantoja , Ismael Rodriguez , Fernando Rubio , Clara Segura

Differential privacy allows quantifying privacy loss resulting from accessing sensitive personal data. Repeated accesses to underlying data incur increasing loss. Releasing data as privacy-preserving synthetic data would avoid this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Joonas Jälkö , Eemil Lagerspetz , Jari Haukka , Sasu Tarkoma , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

Motivation: Human genomic datasets often contain sensitive information that limits use and sharing of the data. In particular, simple anonymisation strategies fail to provide sufficient level of protection for genomic data, because the data…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-27 Teppo Niinimäki , Mikko Heikkilä , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

While location trajectories represent a valuable data source for analyses and location-based services, they can reveal sensitive information, such as political and religious preferences. Differentially private publication mechanisms have…

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