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We consider the problem of designing scalable, robust protocols for computing statistics about sensitive data. Specifically, we look at how best to design differentially private protocols in a distributed setting, where each user holds a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Albert Cheu , Adam Smith , Jonathan Ullman , David Zeber , Maxim Zhilyaev

We give efficient protocols and matching accuracy lower bounds for frequency estimation in the local model for differential privacy. In this model, individual users randomize their data themselves, sending differentially private reports to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Raef Bassily , Adam Smith

Motivated by recent developments in the shuffle model of differential privacy, we propose a new approximate shuffling functionality called Alternating Shuffle, and provide a protocol implementing alternating shuffling in a single-server…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Borja Balle , James Bell , Adrià Gascón

Federated learning promises to make machine learning feasible on distributed, private datasets by implementing gradient descent using secure aggregation methods. The idea is to compute a global weight update without revealing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Badih Ghazi , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker

We present a protocol in the shuffle model of differential privacy (DP) for the \textit{frequency estimation} problem that achieves error $\omega(1)\cdot O(\log n)$, almost matching the central-DP accuracy, with $1+o(1)$ messages per user.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Qiyao Luo , Yilei Wang , Ke Yi

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

Differential privacy (DP) has been recently introduced to linear contextual bandits to formally address the privacy concerns in its associated personalized services to participating users (e.g., recommendations). Prior work largely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Xingyu Zhou

Frequency estimation, a.k.a. histograms, is a workhorse of data analysis, and as such has been thoroughly studied under differentially privacy. In particular, computing histograms in the \emph{local} model of privacy has been the focus of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Clément L. Canonne , Abigail Gentle

We introduce the concurrent shuffle model of differential privacy. In this model we have multiple concurrent shufflers permuting messages from different, possibly overlapping, batches of users. Similarly to the standard (single) shuffle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jay Tenenbaum , Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour , Uri Stemmer

There has been a recent wave of interest in intermediate trust models for differential privacy that eliminate the need for a fully trusted central data collector, but overcome the limitations of local differential privacy. This interest has…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Albert Cheu , Jonathan Ullman

This work studies differential privacy in the context of the recently proposed shuffle model. Unlike in the local model, where the server collecting privatized data from users can track back an input to a specific user, in the shuffle model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Borja Balle , James Bell , Adria Gascon , Kobbi Nissim

Shuffle model of differential privacy is a novel distributed privacy model based on a combination of local privacy mechanisms and a secure shuffler. It has been shown that the additional randomisation provided by the shuffler improves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Antti Koskela , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Honkela

In this work we introduce a new protocol for vector aggregation in the context of the Shuffle Model, a recent model within Differential Privacy (DP). It sits between the Centralized Model, which prioritizes the level of accuracy over the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Mary Scott , Graham Cormode , Carsten Maple

Advances in communications, storage and computational technology allow significant quantities of data to be collected and processed by distributed devices. Combining the information from these endpoints can realize significant societal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Mary Scott , Graham Cormode , Carsten Maple

The shuffle model is recently proposed to address the issue of severe utility loss in Local Differential Privacy (LDP) due to distributed data randomization.In the shuffle model, a shuffler is utilized to break the link between the user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Xiaochen Li , Weiran Liu , Hanwen Feng , Kunzhe Huang , Jinfei Liu , Kui Ren , Zhan Qin

Shuffle DP (Differential Privacy) protocols provide high accuracy and privacy by introducing a shuffler who randomly shuffles data in a distributed system. However, most shuffle DP protocols are vulnerable to two attacks: collusion attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Takao Murakami , Yuichi Sei , Reo Eriguchi

Shuffler-based differential privacy (shuffle-DP) is a privacy paradigm providing high utility by involving a shuffler to permute noisy report from users. Existing shuffle-DP protocols mainly focus on the design of shuffler-based categorical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Xiaoguang Li , Hanyi Wang , Yaowei Huang , Jungang Yang , Qingqing Ye , Haonan Yan , Ke Pan , Zhe Sun , Hui Li

In data-driven applications, preserving user privacy while enabling valuable computations remains a critical challenge. Technologies like differential privacy have been pivotal in addressing these concerns. The shuffle model of DP requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shaowei Wang , Changyu Dong , Xiangfu Song , Jin Li , Zhili Zhou , Di Wang , Han Wu

The shuffle model of local differential privacy is an advanced method of privacy amplification designed to enhance privacy protection with high utility. It achieves this by randomly shuffling sensitive data, making linking individual data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 E Chen , Yang Cao , Yifei Ge

A recent line of work initiated by Chiesa and Gur and further developed by Herman and Rothblum investigates the sample and communication complexity of verifying properties of distributions with the assistance of a powerful, knowledgeable,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Elbert Du , Cynthia Dwork , Pranay Tankala , Linjun Zhang