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Privacy is under threat from artificial intelligence revolution fueled by unprecedented abundance of data. Differential privacy, an established candidate for privacy protection, is susceptible to adversarial attacks, acts conservatively,…

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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…

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To analyze the privacy guarantee of personal data in a database that is subject to queries it is necessary to model the prior knowledge of a possible attacker. Differential privacy considers a worst-case scenario where he knows almost…

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Making evidence based decisions requires data. However for real-world applications, the privacy of data is critical. Using synthetic data which reflects certain statistical properties of the original data preserves the privacy of the…

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Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in creating images highly aligned with user prompts, yet their proclivity for memorizing training set images has sparked concerns about the originality of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Chen Chen , Daochang Liu , Mubarak Shah , Chang Xu

Differential privacy has become the gold standard for privacy-preserving machine learning systems. Unfortunately, subsequent work has primarily fixated on the privacy-utility tradeoff, leaving the subject of fairness constraints undervalued…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Adriana Watson

The exponential growth of data collection necessitates robust privacy protections that preserve data utility. We address information disclosure against adversaries with bounded prior knowledge, modeled by an entropy constraint $H(X) \geq…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Genqiang Wu , Xiaoying Zhang , Yu Qi , Hao Wang , Jikui Wang , Yeping He

We identify fundamental tradeoffs between statistical utility and privacy under local models of privacy in which data is kept private even from the statistician, providing instance-specific bounds for private estimation and learning…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-10-01 John C. Duchi , Feng Ruan

Organizations of all kinds, whether public or private, profit-driven or non-profit, and across various industries and sectors, rely on dashboards for effective data visualization. However, the reliability and efficacy of these dashboards…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Johne Jarske , Jorge Rady , Lucia V. L. Filgueiras , Leandro M. Velloso , Tania L. Santos

We study the relationship between two desiderata of algorithms in statistical inference and machine learning: differential privacy and robustness to adversarial data corruptions. Their conceptual similarity was first observed by Dwork and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Hilal Asi , Jonathan Ullman , Lydia Zakynthinou

Data engineering often requires accuracy (utility) constraints on results, posing significant challenges in designing differentially private (DP) mechanisms, particularly under stringent privacy parameter $\epsilon$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Bo Jiang , Wanrong Zhang , Donghang Lu , Jian Du , Sagar Sharma , Qiang Yan

Ensuring trustworthiness in machine learning -- by balancing utility, fairness, and privacy -- remains a critical challenge, particularly in representation learning. In this work, we investigate a family of closely related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 João Machado de Freitas , Bernhard C. Geiger

Data sharing enables critical advances in many research areas and business applications, but it may lead to inadvertent disclosure of sensitive summary statistics (e.g., means or quantiles). Existing literature only focuses on protecting a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Shuaiqi Wang , Rongzhe Wei , Mohsen Ghassemi , Eleonora Kreacic , Vamsi K. Potluru

With vast databases at their disposal, private tech companies can compete with public statistical agencies to provide population statistics. However, private companies face different incentives to provide high-quality statistics and to…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2019-06-25 John M. Abowd , Ian M. Schmutte , William Sexton , Lars Vilhuber

In the study of trustworthy Natural Language Processing (NLP), a number of important research fields have emerged, including that of explainability and privacy. While research interest in both explainable and privacy-preserving NLP has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Mahdi Dhaini , Stephen Meisenbacher , Ege Erdogan , Florian Matthes , Gjergji Kasneci

Differential privacy is a popular privacy model within the research community because of the strong privacy guarantee it offers, namely that the presence or absence of any individual in a data set does not significantly influence the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Jordi Soria-Comas , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , David Megías

Differential private (DP) query and response mechanisms have been widely adopted in various applications based on Internet of Things (IoT) to leverage variety of benefits through data analysis. The protection of sensitive information is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Muhammad Islam , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Jinjun Chen

Recent years have witnessed the adoption of differential privacy (DP) in practical database systems like PINQ, FLEX, and PrivateSQL. Such systems allow data analysts to query sensitive data while providing a rigorous and provable privacy…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Shufan Zhang , Xi He

For scalable machine learning on large data sets, subsampling a representative subset is a common approach for efficient model training. This is often achieved through importance sampling, whereby informative data points are sampled more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Dominik Fay , Sebastian Mair , Jens Sjölund

A Private Repetition algorithm takes as input a differentially private algorithm with constant success probability and boosts it to one that succeeds with high probability. These algorithms are closely related to private metaselection…

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