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We consider a problem where mutually untrusting curators possess portions of a vertically partitioned database containing information about a set of individuals. The goal is to enable an authorized party to obtain aggregate (statistical)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Bing-Rong Lin , Ye Wang , Shantanu Rane

Many commonly used learning algorithms work by iteratively updating an intermediate solution using one or a few data points in each iteration. Analysis of differential privacy for such algorithms often involves ensuring privacy of each step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

Privacy has become a critical concern in modern multi-robot systems, driven by both ethical considerations and operational constraints. As a result, growing attention has been directed toward privacy-preserving coordination in dynamical…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Le Liu , Yu Kawano , Ming Cao

Privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL), the problem of identifying records that correspond to the same real-world entity across several data sources held by different parties without revealing any sensitive information about these…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Dinusha Vatsalan , Peter Christen

Runtime verification offers scalable solutions to improve the safety and reliability of systems. However, systems that require verification or monitoring by a third party to ensure compliance with a specification might contain sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Thomas A. Henzinger , Mahyar Karimi , K. S. Thejaswini

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are increasingly prevalent in education research, and are often regarded as a gold standard of causal inference. Two main virtues of randomized experiments are that they (1) do not suffer from…

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a broad cryptographic concept that can be adopted for privacy-preserving computation. With MPC, a number of parties can collaboratively compute a function, without revealing the actual input or output…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Zhou Ni , Rujia Wang

Training data privacy has been a top concern in AI modeling. While methods like differentiated private learning allow data contributors to quantify acceptable privacy loss, model utility is often significantly damaged. In practice,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuechun Gu , Jiajie He , Keke Chen

Given a collection of vectors $x^{(1)},\dots,x^{(n)} \in \{0,1\}^d$, the selection problem asks to report the index of an "approximately largest" entry in $x=\sum_{j=1}^n x^{(j)}$. Selection abstracts a host of problems--in machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Ivan Damgård , Hannah Keller , Boel Nelson , Claudio Orlandi , Rasmus Pagh

Experiment design has a rich history dating back over a century and has found many critical applications across various fields since then. The use and collection of users' data in experiments often involve sensitive personal information, so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Wei-Ning Chen , Graham Cormode , Akash Bharadwaj , Peter Romov , Ayfer Özgür

High-dimensional biomarkers such as genomics are increasingly being measured in randomized clinical trials. Consequently, there is a growing interest in developing methods that improve the power to detect biomarker-treatment interactions.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-30 Jixiong Wang , Ashish Patel , James M. S. Wason , Paul J. Newcombe

The Collaborative Research Cycle (CRC) is a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) benchmarking program intended to strengthen understanding of tabular data deidentification technologies. Deidentification algorithms are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Aniruddha Sen , Christine Task , Dhruv Kapur , Gary Howarth , Karan Bhagat

Privacy preservation emphasize on authorization of data, which signifies that data should be accessed only by authorized users. Ensuring the privacy of data is considered as one of the challenging task in data management. The generalization…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-03-03 S kumarasawamy , Srikanth P L , Manjula S H , K R Venugopal , L M Patnaik

Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for estimating treatment effects across many fields of science. Technology companies have adopted A/B-testing methods as a modern RCT counterpart, where end-users are randomly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Olivier Jeunen

A/B tests, also known as randomized controlled experiments (RCTs), are the gold standard for evaluating the impact of new policies, products, or decisions. However, these tests can be costly in terms of time and resources, potentially…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-03 Shima Nassiri , Mohsen Bayati , Joe Cooprider

The growing volumes of data being collected and its analysis to provide better services are creating worries about digital privacy. To address privacy concerns and give practical solutions, the literature has relied on secure multiparty…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nishat Koti , Shravani Patil , Arpita Patra , Ajith Suresh

In this paper we propose a novel protocol that allows suppliers and grid operators to collect users' aggregate metering data in a secure and privacy-preserving manner. We use secure multiparty computation to ensure privacy protection. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Mustafa A. Mustafa , Sara Cleemput , Abelrahaman Aly , Aysajan Abidin

Ratio statistics--such as relative risk and odds ratios--play a central role in hypothesis testing, model evaluation, and decision-making across many areas of machine learning, including causal inference and fairness analysis. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-28 Tomer Shoham , Katrina Ligettt

In this paper we present tools for applied researchers that re-purpose off-the-shelf methods from the computer-science field of machine learning to create a "discovery engine" for data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs). The applied…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-13 Jens Ludwig , Sendhil Mullainathan , Jann Spiess

By enabling multiple agents to cooperatively solve a global optimization problem in the absence of a central coordinator, decentralized stochastic optimization is gaining increasing attention in areas as diverse as machine learning,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Yongqiang Wang , Tamer Basar