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We study simple binary hypothesis testing under both local differential privacy (LDP) and communication constraints. We qualify our results as either minimax optimal or instance optimal: the former hold for the set of distribution pairs…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Ankit Pensia , Amir R. Asadi , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

Suppose that party A collects private information about its users, where each user's data is represented as a bit vector. Suppose that party B has a proprietary data mining algorithm that requires estimating the distance between users, such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Aleksandra Korolova , Ilya Mironov , Nina Mishra

We consider the problem of quickest changepoint detection under the Average Run Length (ARL) constraint where the pre-change and post-change laws lie in composite families $\mathscr{P}$ and $\mathscr{Q}$ respectively. In such a problem, a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Ashwin Ram , Aaditya Ramdas

Differential Privacy (DP) is the current gold-standard for ensuring privacy for statistical queries. Estimation problems under DP constraints appearing in the literature have largely focused on providing equal privacy to all users. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

We study private empirical risk minimization (ERM) problem for losses satisfying the $(\gamma,\kappa)$-Kurdyka-{\L}ojasiewicz (KL) condition. The Polyak-{\L}ojasiewicz (PL) condition is a special case of this condition when $\kappa=2$.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Michael Menart , Enayat Ullah , Raman Arora , Raef Bassily , Cristóbal Guzmán

To prevent unintentional data leakage, research community has resorted to data generators that can produce differentially private data for model training. However, for the sake of the data privacy, existing solutions suffer from either…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Tian Dong , Bo Zhao , Lingjuan Lyu

In this paper, we propose a communication-efficiently decentralized machine learning framework that solves a consensus optimization problem defined over a network of inter-connected workers. The proposed algorithm, Censored and Quantized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Chaouki Ben Issaid , Anis Elgabli , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Mérouane Debbah

In the field of machine learning, many problems can be formulated as the minimax problem, including reinforcement learning, generative adversarial networks, to just name a few. So the minimax problem has attracted a huge amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Yilin Kang , Yong Liu , Jian Li , Weiping Wang

Quantum state discrimination is one of the most fundamental problems studied in quantum information theory. Applications range from channel coding to metrology and cryptography. In this work, we introduce a new variant of this task: Local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-20 Christian Majenz , Maris Ozols , Christian Schaffner , Mehrdad Tahmasbi

Network data are ubiquitous in our daily life, containing rich but often sensitive information. In this paper, we expand the current static analysis of privatised networks to a dynamic framework by considering a sequence of networks with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Mengchu Li , Thomas B. Berrett , Yi Yu

While large code language models have made significant strides in AI-assisted coding tasks, there are growing concerns about privacy challenges. The user code is transparent to the cloud LLM service provider, inducing risks of unauthorized…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yalan Lin , Chengcheng Wan , Yixiong Fang , Xiaodong Gu

This work considers the problem of quickest detection of signals in a coupled system of $N$ sensors, which receive continuous sequential observations from the environment. It is assumed that the signals, which are modeled by general It\^{o}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-11 Hongzhong Zhang , Olympia Hadjiliadis , Tobias Schäfer , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we consider the problem of quickest change point detection and identification over a linear array of $N$ sensors, where the change pattern could first reach any of these sensors, and then propagate to the other sensors. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Di Li , Lifeng Lai , Shuguang Cui

Several problems such as network intrusion, community detection, and disease outbreak can be described by observations attributed to nodes or edges of a graph. In these applications presence of intrusion, community or disease outbreak is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-25 Jing Qian , Venkatesh Saligrama

Large-scale constrained optimization problems are at the core of many tasks in control, signal processing, and machine learning. Notably, problems with functional constraints arise when, beyond a performance{\nobreakdash-}centric goal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-15 Antesh Upadhyay , Sang Bin Moon , Abolfazl Hashemi

With the rapid increase in computing, storage and networking resources, data is not only collected and stored, but also analyzed. This creates a serious privacy problem which often inhibits the use of this data. In this chapter, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-10 Yuan Hong , Jaideep Vaidya , Nicholas Rizzo , Qi Liu

This work studies the distributed empirical risk minimization (ERM) problem under differential privacy (DP) constraint. Standard distributed algorithms achieve DP typically by perturbing all local subgradients with noise, leading to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Changxin Liu , Karl H. Johansson , Yang Shi

Many industrial and security applications employ a suite of sensors for detecting abrupt changes in temporal behavior patterns. These abrupt changes typically manifest locally, rendering only a small subset of sensors informative.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Aditya Gopalan , Venkatesh Saligrama , Braghadeesh Lakshminarayanan

A finite-horizon variant of the quickest change detection problem is investigated, which is motivated by a change detection problem that arises in piecewise stationary bandits. The goal is to minimize the \emph{latency}, which is smallest…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yu-Han Huang , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

We propose the method to sanitize the privacy of the IFM(Input Feature Map)s that are fed into the layers of CNN(Convolutional Neural Network)s. The method introduces the degree of the sanitization that makes the application using a CNN be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Woohyung Chun , Sung-Min Hong , Junho Huh , Inyup Kang