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Privacy concerns have led to a surge in the creation of synthetic datasets, with diffusion models emerging as a promising avenue. Although prior studies have performed empirical evaluations on these models, there has been a gap in providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Rongzhe Wei , Eleonora Kreačić , Haoyu Wang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Vamsi K. Potluru , Pan Li

In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for differential privacy over affine manifolds and validate its usefulness in the contexts of differentially private cloud-based control and average consensus. We consider differential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Deming Yuan , Guodong Shi

This paper introduces PriMaL, a general PRIvacy-preserving MAchine-Learning method for reducing the privacy cost of information transmitted through a network. Distributed sensor networks are often used for automated classification and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Stefano Bennati , Catholijn M. Jonker

Privacy-preserving state estimation for linear time-invariant dynamical systems with crowd sensors is considered. At any time step, the estimator has access to measurements from a randomly selected sensor from a pool of sensors with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Farhad Farokhi

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) is a key cost-effective technology for monitoring power consumption and contributing to several challenges encountered when transiting to an efficient, sustainable, and competitive energy efficiency…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Yassine Himeur , Abdullah Alsalemi , Faycal Bensaali , Abbes Amira

This paper furthers current research into the notion of guaranteed privacy, which provides a deterministic characterization of the privacy of output signals of a dynamical system or mechanism. Unlike stochastic differential privacy,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Mohammad Khajenejad , Sonia Martinez

To resolve the acute problem of privacy protection and guarantee that data can be used in the context of threat intelligence, this paper considers the implementation of Differential Privacy (DP) in cybersecurity analytics. DP, which is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Brahim Khalil Sedraoui , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Amina Makhlouf , Chaouki Chemam

Metric differential privacy (mDP) strengthens local differential privacy (LDP) by scaling noise to semantic distance, but many machine learning (ML) systems are consumed under joint observation, where model-agnostic, per-record guarantees…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Gaoyi Chen , Minghao Li , Weishi Shi , Yan Huang , Yusheng Wei , Sourabh Yadav , Chenxi Qiu

Differential privacy is a promising privacy-preserving paradigm for statistical query processing over sensitive data. It works by injecting random noise into each query result, such that it is provably hard for the adversary to infer the…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Ganzhao Yuan , Zhenjie Zhang , Marianne Winslett , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Zhifeng Hao

Sequential change-point detection seeks to rapidly identify distributional changes in streaming data while controlling false alarms. Existing multi-stream detection methods typically rely on non-private access to raw observations or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Lixing Zhang , Liyan Xie , Ruizhi Zhang

Smart meters (SMs) measure and report users' energy consumption to the utility provider (UP) in almost real-time, providing a much more detailed depiction of the consumer's energy consumption compared to their analog counterparts. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-08-04 Jesus Gomez-Vilardebo , Deniz Gündüz

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…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into real-time machine learning applications, where safeguarding user privacy is paramount. Traditional differential privacy mechanisms often struggle to balance privacy and accuracy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jessica Smith , David Williams , Emily Brown

Differential privacy (DP) enables private data analysis. In a typical DP deployment, controllers manage individuals' sensitive data and are responsible for answering analysts' queries while protecting individuals' privacy. They do so by…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiru Zhu , Raul Castro Fernandez

In recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a technique of choice for privacy-preserving data collection in several scenarios when the aggregator is not trustworthy. LDP provides client-side privacy by adding noise at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Tejas Kulkarni , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

Split learning (SL) aims to protect user data privacy by distributing deep models between client-server and keeping private data locally. Only processed or `smashed' data can be transmitted from the clients to the server during the SL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Ngoc Duy Pham , Khoa Tran Phan , Naveen Chilamkurti

This article introduces differentially private log-location-scale (DP-LLS) regression models, which incorporate differential privacy into LLS regression through the functional mechanism. The proposed models are established by injecting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-16 Jiewen Sheng , Xiaolei Fang

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

This paper studies the H2 (Kalman) filtering problem in the situation where a signal estimate must be constructed based on inputs from individual participants, whose data must remain private. This problem arises in emerging applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-07-20 Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas

In this paper, we first present a volumetric privacy measure for dynamical systems with bounded disturbances, wherein the states of the system contain private information and an adversary with access to sensor measurements attempts to infer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-29 Chuanghong Weng , Ehsan Nekouei