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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…

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The problem of sequentially detecting an abrupt change in a sequence of independent and identically distributed (IID) random variables is addressed. Whereas previous approaches assume a known probability density function (PDF) at the start…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-12-11 James Falt , Steven D. Blostein

Label differential privacy (DP) is designed for learning problems involving private labels and public features. While various methods have been proposed for learning under label DP, the theoretical limits remain largely unexplored. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Puning Zhao , Chuan Ma , Li Shen , Shaowei Wang , Rongfei Fan

Oftentimes in practice, the observed process changes statistical properties at an unknown point in time and the duration of a change is substantially finite, in which case one says that the change is intermittent or transient. We provide an…

Applications · Statistics 2023-04-11 Grigory Sokolov , Valentin S. Spivak , Alexander G. Tartakovsky

Training differentially private machine learning models requires constraining an individual's contribution to the optimization process. This is achieved by clipping the $2$-norm of their gradient at a predetermined threshold prior to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Filippo Galli , Catuscia Palamidessi , Tommaso Cucinotta

This paper studies the network optimization problem about which a group of agents cooperates to minimize a global function under practical constraints of finite bandwidth communication. Particularly, we propose an adaptive encoding-decoding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Ziqin Chen , Shu Liang , Li Li , Shuming Cheng

Reconciliation is an essential part of any secret-key agreement protocol and hence of a Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocol, where two legitimate parties are given correlated data and want to agree on a common string in the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-04-01 David Elkouss , Anthony Leverrier , Romain Alléaume , Joseph Boutros

Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange in nanoscale sensor networks operating in biological environments, yet privacy remains largely unaddressed. We integrate local differential privacy (LDP) into diffusion-based MC by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Melih Şahin , Ozgur B. Akan

We study community detection in the \emph{symmetric $k$-stochastic block model}, where $n$ nodes are evenly partitioned into $k$ clusters with intra- and inter-cluster connection probabilities $p$ and $q$, respectively. Our main result is a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-21 Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , Kasper Lindberg , David Steurer , Aleksandr Storozhenko

Post Randomization Methods (PRAM) are among the most popular disclosure limitation techniques for both categorical and continuous data. In the categorical case, given a stochastic matrix $M$ and a specified variable, an individual belonging…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-09-24 Fadhel Ayed , Marco Battiston , Federico Camerlenghi

Next-generation wireless networks, such as edge intelligence and wireless distributed learning, face two critical challenges: communication efficiency and privacy protection. In this work, our focus is on addressing these issues in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Guangfeng Yan , Tan Li , Tian Lan , Kui Wu , Linqi Song

In recent years, privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms have attracted increasing attention because of their important applications in many scientific fields. However, in the literature, most privacy-preserving algorithms demand…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-03 Weidong Liu , Xiaojun Mao , Xiaofei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Community detection is a central problem of network data analysis. Given a network, the goal of community detection is to partition the network nodes into a small number of clusters, which could often help reveal interesting structures. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-07-26 Chao Gao , Zongming Ma , Anderson Y. Zhang , Harrison H. Zhou

Cognitive Radio Networks allow unlicensed users to opportunistically access the licensed spectrum without causing disruptive interference to the primary users (PUs). One of the main challenges in CRNs is the ability to detect PU…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-15 Shuang Li , Zizhan Zheng , Eylem Ekici , Ness Shroff

We study differentially private (DP) algorithms for stochastic convex optimization: the problem of minimizing the population loss given i.i.d. samples from a distribution over convex loss functions. A recent work of Bassily et al. (2019)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Vitaly Feldman , Tomer Koren , Kunal Talwar

In this paper, we analyze the problem of optimally allocating resources in a distributed and privacy-preserving manner. We propose a novel distributed optimal resource allocation algorithm with privacy-preserving guarantees, which operates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Jakob Nylöf , Apostolos I. Rikos , Sebin Gracy , Karl H. Johansson

In the biclustering problem, we seek to simultaneously group observations and features. While biclustering has applications in a wide array of domains, ranging from text mining to collaborative filtering, the problem of identifying…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-06-07 Eric C. Chi , Genevera I. Allen , Richard G. Baraniuk

Decentralized nonconvex optimization has received increasing attention in recent years in machine learning due to its advantages in system robustness, data privacy, and implementation simplicity. However, three fundamental challenges in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Xin Zhang , Jia Liu , Zhengyuan Zhu , Elizabeth S. Bentley

The learning parity with noise (LPN) problem is a well-established computational challenge whose difficulty is critical to the security of several post-quantum cryptographic primitives such as HQC and Classic McEliece. Classically, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Daniel Shiu

We consider the task of minimizing the sum of convex functions stored in a decentralized manner across the nodes of a communication network. This problem is relatively well-studied in the scenario when the objective functions are smooth, or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-29 Dmitry Kovalev , Ekaterina Borodich , Alexander Gasnikov , Dmitrii Feoktistov