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Large language models (LLMs) are commonly adapted to downstream tasks through fine-tuning, but fine-tuning data often contains sensitive information that may be leaked by the resulting model. Differential privacy (DP) offers formal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haichao Sha , Zihao Wang , Yuncheng Wu , Hong Chen , Wei Dong

Linear $L_1$-regularized models have remained one of the simplest and most effective tools in data analysis, especially in information retrieval problems where n-grams over text with TF-IDF or Okapi feature values are a strong and easy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Amol Khanna , Fred Lu , Edward Raff

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

Generating tabular data under differential privacy (DP) protection ensures theoretical privacy guarantees but poses challenges for training machine learning models, primarily due to the need to capture complex structures under noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Tejumade Afonja , Hui-Po Wang , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

We study the problem of pliable private information retrieval with side information (PPIR-SI) for the single server case. In PPIR, the messages are partitioned into nonoverlapping classes and stored in a number of noncolluding databases.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes

Private computation in a distributed storage system (DSS) is a generalization of the private information retrieval (PIR) problem. In such setting a user wishes to compute a function of $f$ messages stored in $n$ noncolluding coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Sarah A. Obead , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

Differential privacy (DP) provides formal guarantees that the output of a database query does not reveal too much information about any individual present in the database. While many differentially private algorithms have been proposed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Royce J Wilson , Celia Yuxin Zhang , William Lam , Damien Desfontaines , Daniel Simmons-Marengo , Bryant Gipson

We study online change point detection problems under the constraint of local differential privacy (LDP) where, in particular, the statistician does not have access to the raw data. As a concrete problem, we study a multivariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-22 Thomas Berrett , Yi Yu

In this work, we propose a novel framework for privacy-preserving client-distributed machine learning. It is motivated by the desire to achieve differential privacy guarantees in the local model of privacy in a way that satisfies all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Vasyl Pihur , Aleksandra Korolova , Frederick Liu , Subhash Sankuratripati , Moti Yung , Dachuan Huang , Ruogu Zeng

Privacy-preserving machine learning is learning from sensitive datasets that are typically distributed across multiple data owners. Private machine learning is a remarkable challenge in a large number of realistic scenarios where no trusted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Mohamed Nassar

This paper introduces a generalization of the Private Information Retrieval with Side Information (PIR-SI) problem called Popularity-Aware PIR-SI (PA-PIR-SI). The PA-PIR-SI problem includes one or more remote servers storing copies of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alejandro Gomez-Leos , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

Decision trees are a powerful prediction model with many applications in statistics, data mining, and machine learning. In some settings, the model and the data to be classified may contain sensitive information belonging to different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Anselme Tueno , Yordan Boev , Florian Kerschbaum

We study the problem of differentially private optimization with linear constraints when the right-hand-side of the constraints depends on private data. This type of problem appears in many applications, especially resource allocation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Andrés Muñoz Medina , Umar Syed , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Ellen Vitercik

Local differential privacy (LDP) enables the efficient release of aggregate statistics without having to trust the central server (aggregator), as in the central model of differential privacy, and simultaneously protects a client's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tariq Bontekoe , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Fatih Turkmen

The problem of providing privacy, in the private information retrieval (PIR) sense, to users requesting data from a distributed storage system (DSS), is considered. The DSS is coded by an $(n,k,d)$ Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) code to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Razan Tajeddine , Oliver W. Gnilke , Salim El Rouayheb

Differential privacy enables organizations to collect accurate aggregates over sensitive data with strong, rigorous guarantees on individuals' privacy. Previous work has found that under differential privacy, computing multiple correlated…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Ganzhao Yuan , Yin Yang , Zhenjie Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

For the modeling, design and planning of future energy transmission networks, it is vital for stakeholders to access faithful and useful power flow data, while provably maintaining the privacy of business confidentiality of service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 David Smith , Frederik Geth , Elliott Vercoe , Andrew Feutrill , Ming Ding , Jonathan Chan , James Foster , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

While differentially private synthetic data generation has been explored extensively in the literature, how to update this data in the future if the underlying private data changes is much less understood. We propose an algorithmic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Girish Kumar , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Most of the literature on differential privacy considers the item-level case where each user has a single observation, but a growing field of interest is that of user-level privacy where each of the $n$ users holds $T$ observations and…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Alexander Kent , Thomas B. Berrett , Yi Yu

A multi-user private data compression problem is studied. A server has access to a database of $N$ files, $(Y_1,...,Y_N)$, each of size $F$ bits and is connected to an encoder. The encoder is connected through an unsecured link to a user.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Deniz Gündüz , Mikael Skoglund