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In federated learning collaborative learning takes place by a set of clients who each want to remain in control of how their local training data is used, in particular, how can each client's local training data remain private? Differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Marten van Dijk , Phuong Ha Nguyen

Differential privacy is a recent notion of privacy for statistical databases that provides rigorous, meaningful confidentiality guarantees, even in the presence of an attacker with access to arbitrary side information. We show that for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Adam Smith

In this article, we seek to elucidate challenges and opportunities for differential privacy within the federal government setting, as seen by a team of differential privacy researchers, privacy lawyers, and data scientists working closely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Amol Khanna , Adam McCormick , Andre Nguyen , Chris Aguirre , Edward Raff

While quantum computing has strong potential in data-driven fields, the privacy issue of sensitive or valuable information involved in the quantum algorithm should be considered. Differential privacy (DP), which is a fundamental privacy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 Yusheng Zhao , Hui Zhong , Xinyue Zhang , Yuqing Li , Chi Zhang , Miao Pan

While the introduction of differential privacy has been a major breakthrough in the study of privacy preserving data publication, some recent work has pointed out a number of cases where it is not possible to limit inference about…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Jia Wang , Ke Wang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

Differentially Private (DP) data release is a promising technique to disseminate data without compromising the privacy of data subjects. However the majority of prior work has focused on scenarios where a single party owns all the data. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruihan Wu , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Jiankai Sun , Tianyi Liu , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Chong Wang

This paper presents ongoing research focused on improving the utility of data protected by Global Differential Privacy(DP) in the scenario of summary statistics. Our approach is based on predictions on how an analyst will use statistics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Henry C. Nunes , Marlon P. da Silva , Charles V. Neu , Avelino F. Zorzo

Based on differential privacy (DP) framework, we introduce and unify privacy definitions for the multi-armed bandit algorithms. We represent the framework with a unified graphical model and use it to connect privacy definitions. We derive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Debabrota Basu , Christos Dimitrakakis , Aristide Tossou

Differential Privacy has become a widely popular method for data protection in machine learning, especially since it allows formulating strict mathematical privacy guarantees. This survey provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lea Demelius , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

Machine learning (ML) algorithms rely primarily on the availability of training data, and, depending on the domain, these data may include sensitive information about the data providers, thus leading to significant privacy issues.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Karima Makhlouf , Tamara Stefanovic , Heber H. Arcolezi , Catuscia Palamidessi

Differential privacy (DP) is a promising framework for privacy-preserving data science, but recent studies have exposed challenges in bringing this theoretical framework for privacy into practice. These tensions are particularly salient in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Patrick Song , Jayshree Sarathy , Michael Shoemate , Salil Vadhan

In recent years, Local Differential Privacy (LDP), a robust privacy-preserving methodology, has gained widespread adoption in real-world applications. With LDP, users can perturb their data on their devices before sending it out for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Karima Makhlouf , Catuscia Palamidessi

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…

Personalized privacy becomes critical in deep learning for Trustworthy AI. While Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used in deep learning methods supporting privacy, it provides the same level of privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Geon Heo , Junseok Seo , Steven Euijong Whang

Language modeling is a keystone task in natural language processing. When training a language model on sensitive information, differential privacy (DP) allows us to quantify the degree to which our private data is protected. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Gavin Kerrigan , Dylan Slack , Jens Tuyls

Data privacy is a major issue for many decades, several techniques have been developed to make sure individuals' privacy but still world has seen privacy failures. In 2006, Cynthia Dwork gave the idea of Differential Privacy which gave…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Muhammad Aitsam

Data engineering often requires accuracy (utility) constraints on results, posing significant challenges in designing differentially private (DP) mechanisms, particularly under stringent privacy parameter $\epsilon$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Bo Jiang , Wanrong Zhang , Donghang Lu , Jian Du , Sagar Sharma , Qiang Yan

Machine learning with formal privacy-preserving techniques like Differential Privacy (DP) allows one to derive valuable insights from sensitive medical imaging data while promising to protect patient privacy, but it usually comes at a sharp…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Florian A. Hölzl , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Data mining information about people is becoming increasingly important in the data-driven society of the 21st century. Unfortunately, sometimes there are real-world considerations that conflict with the goals of data mining; sometimes the…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sam Fletcher , Md Zahidul Islam

Graph data is increasingly prevalent across domains, offering analytical value but raising significant privacy concerns. Edges may encode sensitive relationships, while node attributes may contain sensitive entity or personal data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nicholas D'Silva , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere