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We consider a setup in which confidential i.i.d. samples $X_1,\dotsc,X_n$ from an unknown finite-support distribution $\boldsymbol{p}$ are passed through $n$ copies of a discrete privatization channel (a.k.a. mechanism) producing outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Adriano Pastore , Michael Gastpar

We initiate the study of a new model of supervised learning under privacy constraints. Imagine a medical study where a dataset is sampled from a population of both healthy and unhealthy individuals. Suppose healthy individuals have no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Raef Bassily , Shay Moran , Anupama Nandi

The increased application of machine learning (ML) in sensitive domains requires protecting the training data through privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). DP requires to specify a uniform privacy level $\varepsilon$ that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Krishna Acharya , Franziska Boenisch , Rakshit Naidu , Juba Ziani

The collection of individuals' data has become commonplace in many industries. Local differential privacy (LDP) offers a rigorous approach to preserving privacy whereby the individual privatises their data locally, allowing only their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alex Mansbridge , Gregory Barbour , Davide Piras , Michael Murray , Christopher Frye , Ilya Feige , David Barber

Computing the principal component (PC) of the adjacency matrix of an undirected graph has several applications ranging from identifying key vertices for influence maximization and controlling diffusion processes, to discovering densely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Alireza Khayatian , Anil Vullikanti , Aritra Konar

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion that restricts the privacy leakage of an algorithm when running on sensitive data, in which privacy-utility trade-off is one of the central problems in private data analysis. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bo Li , Wei Wang , Peng Ye

This paper introduces a generalization of the Private Information Retrieval with Side Information (PIR-SI) problem called Popularity-Aware PIR-SI (PA-PIR-SI). The PA-PIR-SI problem includes one or more remote servers storing copies of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alejandro Gomez-Leos , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

Nonlinear aggregation is central to modern distributed systems, yet its privacy behavior is far less understood than that of linear aggregation. Unlike linear aggregation where mature mechanisms can often suppress information leakage,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Wenrui Yu , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Qiongxiu Li

Split learning (SL) aims to protect user data privacy by distributing deep models between client-server and keeping private data locally. In SL training with multiple clients, the local model weights are shared among the clients for local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ngoc Duy Pham , Tran Khoa Phan , Alsharif Abuadbba , Yansong Gao , Doan Nguyen , Naveen Chilamkurti

As a prevailing collaborative filtering method for recommendation systems, one-bit matrix completion requires data collected by users to provide personalized service. Due to insidious attacks and unexpected inference, the release of users'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Zhengpin Li , Zheng Wei , Zengfeng Huang , Xiaojun Mao , Jian Wang

We introduce the \emph{Private Contiguous-Block Retrieval (PCBR)} problem, where a user retrieves a block of $D$ messages with contiguous indices from $K$ replicated messages stored across $N$ non-colluding servers, while hiding the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Maha Issa , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm for decentralized private data from mobile terminals (MTs). However, it suffers from issues in terms of communication, resource of MTs, and privacy. Existing privacy-preserving FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Yifan Shi , Kang Wei , Li Shen , Jun Li , Xueqian Wang , Bo Yuan , Song Guo

Differential privacy and sublinear algorithms are both rapidly emerging algorithmic themes in times of big data analysis. Although recent works have shown the existence of differentially private sublinear algorithms for many problems…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Jeremiah Blocki , Hendrik Fichtenberger , Elena Grigorescu , Tamalika Mukherjee

The privacy concerns associated with the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) have grown recently with the development of LLMs such as ChatGPT. Differential Privacy (DP) techniques are explored in existing work to mitigate their privacy…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Tiejin Chen , Longchao Da , Huixue Zhou , Pingzhi Li , Kaixiong Zhou , Tianlong Chen , Hua Wei

We propose three private information retrieval (PIR) protocols for distributed storage systems (DSSs) where data is stored using an arbitrary linear code. The first two protocols, named Protocol 1 and Protocol 2, achieve privacy for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Siddhartha Kumar , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Alexandre Graell i Amat

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a strong notion of privacy for individual users that often comes at the expense of a significant drop in utility. The classical definition of LDP assumes that all elements in the data domain are equally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jayadev Acharya , Keith Bonawitz , Peter Kairouz , Daniel Ramage , Ziteng Sun

Multi-server single-message private information retrieval is studied in the presence of side information. In this problem, $K$ independent messages are replicatively stored at $N$ non-colluding servers. The user wants to privately download…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Su Li , Michael Gastpar

Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients", open a set of at most $k$ facilities to minimize the average distance from the clients to these facilities. This is just the well-studied $k$-median…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Anupam Gupta , Katrina Ligett , Frank McSherry , Aaron Roth , Kunal Talwar

When collecting information, local differential privacy (LDP) alleviates privacy concerns of users because their private information is randomized before being sent it to the central aggregator. LDP imposes large amount of noise as each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tianhao Wang , Bolin Ding , Min Xu , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Jingren Zhou , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Fine-tuning unlocks large language models (LLMs) for specialized applications, but its high computational cost often puts it out of reach for resource-constrained organizations. While cloud platforms could provide the needed resources, data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zihan Liu , Yizhen Wang , Rui Wang , Xiu Tang , Sai Wu