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We design a class of additive noise mechanisms that satisfy \((\varepsilon, \delta)\)-differential privacy (DP) for scalar, real-valued query functions with known sensitivities, with a particular focus on moderate and low-privacy regimes.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Huikang Liu , Aras Selvi , Wolfram Wiesemann

We study a protocol for distributed computation called shuffled check-in, which achieves strong privacy guarantees without requiring any further trust assumptions beyond a trusted shuffler. Unlike most existing work, shuffled check-in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Seng Pei Liew , Satoshi Hasegawa , Tsubasa Takahashi

In differential privacy (DP), the generalized private testing problem was introduced by Liu and Talwar (STOC 2019). Given a dataset $X \in \mathcal{X}$ and a sequence of black-box $\varepsilon_t$-DP mechanisms $M_t:\mathcal{X}\to\{+1,-1\}$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Anamay Chaturvedi , Monika Henzinger , Jalaj Upadhyay

Background: Synthetic data has been proposed as a solution for sharing anonymized versions of sensitive biomedical datasets. Ideally, synthetic data should preserve the structure and statistical properties of the original data, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ileana Montoya Perez , Parisa Movahedi , Valtteri Nieminen , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala

Differential Privacy (DP) is a formal definition of privacy that provides rigorous guarantees against risks of privacy breaches during data processing. It makes no assumptions about the knowledge or computational power of adversaries, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Roxana Danger

In this paper, we develop a series of differential privacy (DP) algorithms from a family of random projections (RP) for general applications in machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval. Among the presented algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Ping Li , Xiaoyun Li

Differential privacy (DP) is a rigorous notion of data privacy, used for private statistics. The canonical algorithm for differentially private mean estimation is to first clip the samples to a bounded range and then add noise to their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Gautam Kamath , Argyris Mouzakis , Matthew Regehr , Vikrant Singhal , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

Conformal prediction (CP) provides sets of candidate classes with a guaranteed probability of containing the true class. However, it typically relies on a calibration set with clean labels. We address privacy-sensitive scenarios where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Coby Penso , Bar Mahpud , Jacob Goldberger , Or Sheffet

Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) builds upon the core principles of Differential Privacy (DP) by incorporating various distance metrics, which offer adaptable and context-sensitive privacy guarantees for a wide range of applications, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xinpeng Xie , Chenyang Yu , Yan Huang , Yang Cao , Chenxi Qiu

Federated analytics seeks to compute accurate statistics from data distributed across users' devices while providing a suitable privacy guarantee and being practically feasible to implement and scale. In this paper, we show how a strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Akash Bharadwaj , Graham Cormode

Differential Privacy (DP) was originally developed to protect privacy. However, it has recently been utilized to secure machine learning (ML) models from poisoning attacks, with DP-SGD receiving substantial attention. Nevertheless, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Fereshteh Razmi , Jian Lou , Li Xiong

Differentially private (DP) tabular data synthesis generates artificial data that preserves the statistical properties of private data while safeguarding individual privacy. The emergence of diverse algorithms in recent years has introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Kai Chen , Xiaochen Li , Chen Gong , Ryan McKenna , Tianhao Wang

In this paper, we study the problem of privacy audit in one run and show that our method achieves tight audit results for various differentially private protocols. This includes obtaining tight results for auditing $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Hanshen Xiao , Yuan Tian , Di Wang

Differential privacy (DP) has steadily become the de-facto standard for achieving privacy in data analysis, which is typically implemented either in the "central" or "local" model. The local model has been more popular for commercial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Chenghong Wang , Xi He , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Somesh Jha

$\epsilon$-Differential privacy (DP) is a well-known privacy model that offers strong privacy guarantees. However, when applied to data releases, DP significantly deteriorates the analytical utility of the protected outcomes. To keep data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Jordi Soria-Comas , David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Sergio Martínez , Luis Del Vasto-Terrientes

This monograph explores the design and analysis of correlated noise mechanisms for differential privacy (DP), focusing on their application to private training of AI and machine learning models via the core primitive of estimation of…

We initiate a study of the composition properties of interactive differentially private mechanisms. An interactive differentially private mechanism is an algorithm that allows an analyst to adaptively ask queries about a sensitive dataset,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Salil Vadhan , Tianhao Wang

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a recently proposed privacy standard for collecting and analyzing data, which has been used, e.g., in the Chrome browser, iOS and macOS. In LDP, each user perturbs her information locally, and only sends…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ning Wang , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Jun Zhao , Siu Cheung Hui , Hyejin Shin , Junbum Shin , Ge Yu

Differential Privacy (DP) is commonly employed to safeguard graph analysis or publishing. Distance, a critical factor in graph analysis, is typically handled using curator DP, where a trusted curator holds the complete neighbor lists of all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weihong Sheng , Jiajun Chen , Bin Cai , Chunqiang Hu , Meng Han , Jiguo Yu

Zero-concentrated differential privacy (zCDP) is a variant of differential privacy (DP) that is widely used partly thanks to its nice composition property. While a tight conversion from $\epsilon$-DP to zCDP exists for the worst-case…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Charlie Harrison , Pasin Manurangsi