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This work studies formal utility and privacy guarantees for a simple multiplicative database transformation, where the data are compressed by a random linear or affine transformation, reducing the number of data records substantially, while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-01-13 Shuheng Zhou , Katrina Ligett , Larry Wasserman

We study the accuracy of differentially private mechanisms in the continual release model. A continual release mechanism receives a sensitive dataset as a stream of $T$ inputs and produces, after receiving each input, an accurate output on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Palak Jain , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Satchit Sivakumar , Adam Smith

A fundamental problem in differential privacy is to release a privatized data structure over a dataset that can be used to answer a class of linear queries with small errors. This problem has been well studied in the static case. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Yuan Qiu , Ke Yi

Existing studies on differential privacy mainly consider aggregation on data sets where each entry corresponds to a particular participant to be protected. In many situations, a user may pose a relational algebra query on a sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Shixi Chen , Shuigeng Zhou

This paper develops a novel differentially private framework to solve convex optimization problems with sensitive optimization data and complex physical or operational constraints. Unlike standard noise-additive algorithms, that act…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Vladimir Dvorkin , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Jalal Kazempour , Pierre Pinson

In this paper, we focus on developing a novel mechanism to preserve differential privacy in deep neural networks, such that: (1) The privacy budget consumption is totally independent of the number of training steps; (2) It has the ability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-24 NhatHai Phan , Xintao Wu , Han Hu , Dejing Dou

We consider the problem of clustering privately a dataset in $\mathbb{R}^d$ that undergoes both insertion and deletion of points. Specifically, we give an $\varepsilon$-differentially private clustering mechanism for the $k$-means objective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Max Dupré la Tour , Monika Henzinger , David Saulpic

Differential privacy is a mathematical concept that provides an information-theoretic security guarantee. While differential privacy has emerged as a de facto standard for guaranteeing privacy in data sharing, the known mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-26 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Differential privacy is a formal, mathematical definition of data privacy that has gained traction in academia, industry, and government. The task of correctly constructing differentially private algorithms is non-trivial, and mistakes have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Subhajit Roy , Justin Hsu , Aws Albarghouthi

With the development of Big Data and cloud data sharing, privacy preserving data publishing becomes one of the most important topics in the past decade. As one of the most influential privacy definitions, differential privacy provides a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Tianqing Zhu , Ping Xiong , Gang Li , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

With the development of big data and machine learning, privacy concerns have become increasingly critical, especially when handling heterogeneous datasets containing sensitive personal information. Differential privacy provides a rigorous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-08 Ziliang Shen , Caixing Wang , Shaoli Wang , Yibo Yan

Private synthetic data sharing is preferred as it keeps the distribution and nuances of original data compared to summary statistics. The state-of-the-art methods adopt a select-measure-generate paradigm, but measuring large domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Meifan Zhang , Dihang Deng , Lihua Yin

We propose AIM, a new algorithm for differentially private synthetic data generation. AIM is a workload-adaptive algorithm within the paradigm of algorithms that first selects a set of queries, then privately measures those queries, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ryan McKenna , Brett Mullins , Daniel Sheldon , Gerome Miklau

In this paper, we address the challenge of differential privacy in the context of graph cuts, specifically focusing on the multiway cut and the minimum $k$-cut. We introduce edge-differentially private algorithms that achieve nearly optimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Rishi Chandra , Michael Dinitz , Chenglin Fan , Zongrui Zou

In this work we describe the High-Dimensional Matrix Mechanism (HDMM), a differentially private algorithm for answering a workload of predicate counting queries. HDMM represents query workloads using a compact implicit matrix representation…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ryan McKenna , Gerome Miklau , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Differential privacy has become a de facto standard for releasing data in a privacy-preserving way. Creating a differentially private algorithm is a process that often starts with a noise-free (non-private) algorithm. The designer then…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yuxin Wang , Zeyu Ding , Yingtai Xiao , Daniel Kifer , Danfeng Zhang

Differentially private algorithms for answering sets of predicate counting queries on a sensitive database have many applications. Organizations that collect individual-level data, such as statistical agencies and medical institutions, use…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Ryan McKenna , Gerome Miklau , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

We introduce a differentially private manifold denoising framework that allows users to exploit sensitive reference datasets to correct noisy, non-private query points without compromising privacy. The method follows an iterative procedure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiaqi Wu , Yiqing Sun , Zhigang Yao

We introduce derivative sensitivity, an analogue to local sensitivity for continuous functions. We use this notion in an analysis that determines the amount of noise to be added to the result of a database query in order to obtain a certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Peeter Laud , Alisa Pankova , Martin Pettai

Federated learning is distributed model training across several clients without disclosing raw data. Despite advancements in data privacy, risks still remain. Differential Privacy (DP) is a technique to protect sensitive data by adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Tejash Varsani