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Machine learning models trained with differentially-private (DP) algorithms such as DP-SGD enjoy resilience against a wide range of privacy attacks. Although it is possible to derive bounds for some attacks based solely on an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Giovanni Cherubin , Boris Köpf , Andrew Paverd , Shruti Tople , Lukas Wutschitz , Santiago Zanella-Béguelin

Differential privacy (DP) has become a rigorous central concept for privacy protection in the past decade. We use Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) in gauging the level of privacy protection for releasing statistical summaries from data.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-01 Minwoo Kim , Jonghyeok Lee , Seung Woo Kwak , Sungkyu Jung

Federated learning (FL) aims to protect data privacy by cooperatively learning a model without sharing private data among users. For Federated Learning of Deep Neural Network with billions of model parameters, existing privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hanlin Gu , Lixin Fan , Bowen Li , Yan Kang , Yuan Yao , Qiang Yang

The popularity of federated learning comes from the possibility of better scalability and the ability for participants to keep control of their data, improving data security and sovereignty. Unfortunately, sharing model updates also creates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Edwige Cyffers , Aurélien Bellet , Jalaj Upadhyay

This paper introduces two methods of creating differentially private (DP) synthetic data that are now incorporated into the \textit{synthpop} package for \textbf{R}. Both are suitable for synthesising categorical data, or numeric data…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-28 Gillian M Raab

Mobile apps that use location data are pervasive, spanning domains such as transportation, urban planning and healthcare. Important use cases for location data rely on statistical queries, e.g., identifying hotspots where users work and…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Sina Shaham , Gabriel Ghinita , Ritesh Ahuja , John Krumm , Cyrus Shahabi

A commonly used method to protect user privacy in data collection is to perform randomized perturbation on user's real data before collection so that aggregated statistics can still be inferred without endangering secrets held by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Aria Rezaei , Jie Gao

Differential privacy is among the most prominent techniques for preserving privacy of sensitive data, oweing to its robust mathematical guarantees and general applicability to a vast array of computations on data, including statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Naoise Holohan , Stefano Braghin

One goal of statistical privacy research is to construct a data release mechanism that protects individual privacy while preserving information content. An example is a {\em random mechanism} that takes an input database $X$ and outputs a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-01-11 Larry Wasserman , Shuheng Zhou

Machine learning models should not reveal particular information that is not otherwise accessible. Differential privacy provides a formal framework to mitigate privacy risks by ensuring that the inclusion or exclusion of any single data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

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

We propose a novel Decentralized Differentially Private Power Method (D-DP-PM) for performing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in networked multi-agent settings. Unlike conventional decentralized PCA approaches where each agent accesses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Andrew Campbell , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert

Differential privacy (DP) provides a provable framework for protecting individuals by customizing a random mechanism over a privacy-sensitive dataset. Deep learning models have demonstrated privacy risks in model exposure as an established…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Yu Zheng , Wenchao Zhang , Yonggang Zhang , Yuxiang Peng , Wei Song , Kai Zhou , Xiaojiang Du , Bo Han

This paper studies the exact recovery threshold subject to preserving the privacy of connections in $h$-uniform hypergraphs. Privacy is characterized by the $(\epsilon, \delta)$-hyperedge differential privacy (DP), an extension of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Javad Zahedi Moghaddam , Aria Nosratinia

How to achieve the tradeoff between privacy and utility is one of fundamental problems in private data analysis.In this paper, we give a rigourous differential privacy analysis of networks in the appearance of covariates via a generalized…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-11-20 Ting Yan

Differential privacy is a privacy measure based on the difficulty of discriminating between similar input data. In differential privacy analysis, similar data usually implies that their distance does not exceed a predetermined threshold.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Genki Sugiura , Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

We consider how to privately share the personalized privacy losses incurred by objective perturbation, using per-instance differential privacy (pDP). Standard differential privacy (DP) gives us a worst-case bound that might be orders of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Rachel Redberg , Yu-Xiang Wang

The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki

Differential privacy is often applied with a privacy parameter that is larger than the theory suggests is ideal; various informal justifications for tolerating large privacy parameters have been proposed. In this work, we consider partial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Thomas Steinke

While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis