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We extend a previous framework for designing differentially private (DP) mechanisms via randomized graph colorings that was restricted to binary functions, corresponding to colorings in a graph, to multi-valued functions. As before,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Ziqi Zhou , Onur Günlü , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Muriel Médard , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rafael F. Schaefer

We study a new framework for designing differentially private (DP) mechanisms via randomized graph colorings, called rainbow differential privacy. In this framework, datasets are nodes in a graph, and two neighboring datasets are connected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Yuzhou Gu , Ziqi Zhou , Onur Günlü , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Parastoo Sadeghi , Muriel Médard , Rafael F. Schaefer

We present the notion of \emph{reasonable utility} for binary mechanisms, which applies to all utility functions in the literature. This notion induces a partial ordering on the performance of all binary differentially private (DP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Sahel Torkamani , Javad B. Ebrahimi , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Muriel Médard

We generalize a previous framework for designing utility-optimal differentially private (DP) mechanisms via graphs, where datasets are vertices in the graph and edges represent dataset neighborhood. The boundary set contains datasets where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Sahel Torkamani , Javad B. Ebrahimi , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Muriel Medard

We study the task of training regression models with the guarantee of label differential privacy (DP). Based on a global prior distribution on label values, which could be obtained privately, we derive a label DP randomization mechanism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Ethan Leeman , Pasin Manurangsi , Avinash V Varadarajan , Chiyuan Zhang

Differential Privacy is the gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. This paper addresses the challenge of producing a differentially edge-private vertex coloring. In this paper, we present two novel algorithms to approach this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michael Xie , Jiayi Wu , Dung Nguyen , Aravind Srinivasan

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

We investigate how to optimally design local differential privacy (LDP) mechanisms that reduce data unfairness and thereby improve fairness in downstream classification. We first derive a closed-form optimal mechanism for binary sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Hrad Ghoukasian , Shahab Asoodeh

Computing matchings in graphs is a foundational algorithmic task. Despite extensive interest in differentially private (DP) graph analysis, work on privately computing matching solutions, rather than just their size, has been sparse. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Michael Dinitz , George Z. Li , Quanquan C. Liu , Felix Zhou

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

In recent years, differential privacy has emerged as the de facto standard for sharing statistics of datasets while limiting the disclosure of private information about the involved individuals. This is achieved by randomly perturbing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Aras Selvi , Huikang Liu , Wolfram Wiesemann

In the literature of data privacy, differential privacy is the most popular model. An algorithm is differentially private if its outputs with and without any individual's data are indistinguishable. In this paper, we focus on data generated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Darshan Chakrabarti , Jie Gao , Aditya Saraf , Grant Schoenebeck , Fang-Yi Yu

Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as a de facto standard privacy notion for a wide range of applications. Since the meaning of data utility in different applications may vastly differ, a key challenge is to find the optimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Meisam Mohammady , Shangyu Xie , Yuan Hong , Mengyuan Zhang , Lingyu Wang , Makan Pourzandi , Mourad Debbabi

We study mechanisms for differential privacy on finite datasets. By deriving \emph{sufficient sets} for differential privacy we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for differential privacy, a tight lower bound on the maximal expected…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Naoise Holohan , Doug Leith , Oliver Mason

Releasing the result size of conjunctive queries and graph pattern queries under differential privacy (DP) has received considerable attention in the literature, but existing solutions do not offer any optimality guarantees. We provide the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wei Dong , Ke Yi

Graph Neural Networks have achieved tremendous success in modeling complex graph data in a variety of applications. However, there are limited studies investigating privacy protection in GNNs. In this work, we propose a learning framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Karuna Bhaila , Wen Huang , Yongkai Wu , Xintao Wu

Densest subgraph detection is a fundamental graph mining problem, with a large number of applications. There has been a lot of work on efficient algorithms for finding the densest subgraph in massive networks. However, in many domains, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti

Differentially private algorithms allow large-scale data analytics while preserving user privacy. Designing such algorithms for graph data is gaining importance with the growth of large networks that model various (sensitive) relationships…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Laxman Dhulipala , Quanquan C. Liu , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Jessica Shi , Julian Shun , Shangdi Yu

Many data mining and analytical tasks rely on the abstraction of networks (graphs) to summarize relational structures among individuals (nodes). Since relational data are often sensitive, we aim to seek effective approaches to generate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Carl Yang , Haonan Wang , Ke Zhang , Liang Chen , Lichao Sun

While pursuing better utility by discovering knowledge from the data, individual's privacy may be compromised during an analysis. To that end, differential privacy has been widely recognized as the state-of-the-art privacy notion. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Meisam Mohammady
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