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We consider a private discrete distribution estimation problem with one-bit communication constraint. The privacy constraints are imposed with respect to the local differential privacy and the maximal leakage. The estimation error is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Seung-Hyun Nam , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Si-Hyeon Lee

In some socio-economic surveys, data are collected on sensitive or stigmatizing issues such as tax evasion, criminal conviction, drug use, etc. In such surveys, direct questioning of respondents is not of much use and the randomized…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-03-22 Mausumi Bose

Differential privacy is a rigorous privacy condition achieved by randomizing query answers. This paper develops efficient algorithms for answering multiple queries under differential privacy with low error. We pursue this goal by advancing…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

We consider the problem of estimating a regression function from anonymized data in the framework of local differential privacy. We propose a novel partitioning estimate of the regression function, derive a rate of convergence for the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-04-12 László Györfi , Martin Kroll

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…

Imbalanced learning occurs in classification settings where the distribution of class-labels is highly skewed in the training data, such as when predicting rare diseases or in fraud detection. This class imbalance presents a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Lucas Rosenblatt , Yuliia Lut , Eitan Turok , Marco Avella-Medina , Rachel Cummings

In this paper, an adjustment to the original differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) algorithm for deep learning models is proposed. As a matter of motivation, to date, almost no state-of-the-art machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Mehdi Amian

Since being proposed in 2006, differential privacy has become a standard method for quantifying certain risks in publishing or sharing analyses of sensitive data. At its heart, differential privacy measures risk in terms of the differences…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Anand D. Sarwate , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

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

Creation of a synthetic dataset that faithfully represents the data distribution and simultaneously preserves privacy is a major research challenge. Many space partitioning based approaches have emerged in recent years for answering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Eleonora Kreačić , Navid Nouri , Vamsi K. Potluru , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

This paper investigates the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to protect agents' private information from potential attackers during the optimization process. Gradient tracking, an advanced technique for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

We study the fundamental problem of estimating an unknown discrete distribution $p$ over $d$ symbols, given $n$ i.i.d. samples from the distribution. We are interested in minimizing the KL divergence between the true distribution and the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-30 Jiayuan Ye , Vitaly Feldman , Kunal Talwar

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) has attracted extensive attention as it can explicitly handle system constraints and achieve optimal control in a decentralized manner. However, the deployment of DMPC strategies generally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Kaixiang Zhang , Yongqiang Wang , Ziyou Song , Zhaojian Li

Local differential privacy (LDP) can provide each user with strong privacy guarantees under untrusted data curators while ensuring accurate statistics derived from privatized data. Due to its powerfulness, LDP has been widely adopted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Teng Wang , Jun Zhao , Xinyu Yang , Xuebin Ren

This study examines a resource-sharing problem involving multiple parties that agree to use a set of capacities together. We start with modeling the whole problem as a mathematical program, where all parties are required to exchange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Utku Karaca , Nursen Aydin , Sinan Yildirim , S. Ilker Birbil

Data privacy is a central concern in many applications involving ranking from incomplete and noisy pairwise comparisons, such as recommendation systems, educational assessments, and opinion surveys on sensitive topics. In this work, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Yichen Wang

In order to provide high-quality recommendations for users, it is desirable to share and integrate multiple datasets held by different parties. However, when sharing such distributed datasets, we need to protect personal and confidential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tomoya Yanagi , Shunnosuke Ikeda , Noriyoshi Sukegawa , Yuichi Takano

Differential privacy has become a popular privacy-preserving method in data analysis, query processing, and machine learning, which adds noise to the query result to avoid leaking privacy. Sensitivity, or the maximum impact of deleting or…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Meifan Zhang , Xin Liu , Lihua Yin

How to achieve differential privacy in the distributed setting, where the dataset is distributed among the distrustful parties, is an important problem. We consider in what condition can a protocol inherit the differential privacy property…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Genqiang Wu , Yeping He , Jingzheng Wu , Xianyao Xia

This paper investigates the problem of forecasting multivariate aggregated human mobility while preserving the privacy of the individuals concerned. Differential privacy, a state-of-the-art formal notion, has been used as the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Héber H. Arcolezi , Jean-François Couchot , Denis Renaud , Bechara Al Bouna , Xiaokui Xiao