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This paper proposes a data privacy protection framework based on federated learning, which aims to realize effective cross-domain data collaboration under the premise of ensuring data privacy through distributed learning. Federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yiwei Zhang , Jie Liu , Jiawei Wang , Lu Dai , Fan Guo , Guohui Cai

We propose a privacy-preserving federated learning (FL) scheme that is resilient against straggling devices. An adaptive scenario is suggested where the slower devices share their data with the faster ones and do not participate in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Marvin Xhemrishi , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Eirik Rosnes , Antonia Wachter-Zeh

We introduce the linear-transformation model, a distributed model of differentially private data analysis. Clients have access to a trusted platform capable of applying a public matrix to their inputs. Such computations can be securely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jakob Burkhardt , Hannah Keller , Claudio Orlandi , Chris Schwiegelshohn

Online learning has been in the spotlight from the machine learning society for a long time. To handle massive data in Big Data era, one single learner could never efficiently finish this heavy task. Hence, in this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-24 Chencheng Li , Pan Zhou

In this paper, we propose a practically efficient model for securely computing rank-based statistics, e.g., median, percentiles and quartiles, over distributed datasets in the malicious setting without leaking individual data privacy. Based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Nan Wang , Sid Chi-Kin Chau

In this paper, we describe our approach to achieve distributed differential privacy by sampling alone. Our mechanism works in the semi-honest setting (honest-but-curious whereby aggregators attempt to peek at the data though follow the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Joshua Joy

Distributed linearly separable computation, where a user asks some distributed servers to compute a linearly separable function, was recently formulated by the same authors and aims to alleviate the bottlenecks of stragglers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Personal data is an attractive source of insights for a diverse field of research and business. While our data is highly valuable, it is often privacy-sensitive. Thus, regulations like the GDPR restrict what data can be legally published,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Stefan More , Lukas Alber

This paper studies a key research question: how to achieve perfect privacy in over-the-air computation (AirComp)? The problem is particularly intriguing due to a dilemma. Real-field operations can ensure invertibility but generally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Shudi Weng , Ming Xiao , Mikael Skoglund

Quantum computers can solve specific complex tasks for which no reasonable-time classical algorithm is known. Quantum computers do however also offer inherent security of data, as measurements destroy quantum states. Using shared entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Niels M. P. Neumann , Robert S. Wezeman

We consider the problem of storing data in a distributed manner over $T$ servers. We require the data (i) to be recoverable from the $T$ servers, and (ii) to remain private from any $T-1$ colluding servers, where privacy is quantified in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Remi A. Chou , Joerg Kliewer

In smart grid, large quantities of data is collected from various applications, such as smart metering substation state monitoring, electric energy data acquisition, and smart home. Big data acquired in smart grid applications usually is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Zhitao Guan , Guanlin Si , Xiaojiang Du , Peng Liu

Perfect data privacy seems to be in fundamental opposition to the economical and scientific opportunities associated with extensive data exchange. Defying this intuition, this paper develops a framework that allows the disclosure of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Borzoo Rassouli , Fernando E. Rosas , Deniz Gunduz

We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes visible to a service provider while maintaining high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Peter Kairouz , Stefan Mellem , Adrià Gascón , Kallista Bonawitz , Deborah Estrin , Marco Gruteser

A distributed computing protocol consists of three components: (i) Data Localization: a network-wide dataset is decomposed into local datasets separately preserved at a network of nodes; (ii) Node Communication: the nodes hold individual…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Yang Liu , Junfeng Wu , Ian R. Manchester , Guodong Shi

Distributed control/optimization is a promising approach for network systems due to its advantages over centralized schemes, such as robustness, cost-effectiveness, and improved privacy. However, distributed methods can have drawbacks, such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Chin-Yao Chang

We consider the problems of secret sharing and multiparty computation, assuming that agents prefer to get the secret (resp., function value) to not getting it, and secondarily, prefer that as few as possible of the other agents get it. We…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joseph Y. Halpern , Vanessa Teague

Preservation of privacy has been a serious concern with the increasing use of IoT-assisted smart systems and their ubiquitous smart sensors. To solve the issue, the smart systems are being trained to depend more on aggregated data instead…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Himanshu Goyal , Sudipta Saha

Quantum secret sharing schemes are a family of quantum cryptographic protocols which provide secure quantum encodings, mapping one secret to multiple shares of information such that the original secret cannot be accessed without an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Varin Sikand , Andrew Nemec

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