English
Related papers

Related papers: Selective MPC: Distributed Computation of Differen…

200 papers

Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is an area of cryptography that enables computation on sensitive data from multiple sources while maintaining privacy guarantees. However, theoretical MPC protocols often do not scale efficiently to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Valerie Chen , Valerio Pastro , Mariana Raykova

This paper focuses on the privacy paradigm of providing access to researchers to remotely carry out analyses on sensitive data stored behind firewalls. We address the situation where the analysis demands data from multiple physically…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-20 Joshua Snoke , Timothy R. Brick , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Michael D. Hunter

As large-scale theft of data from corporate servers is becoming increasingly common, it becomes interesting to examine alternatives to the paradigm of centralizing sensitive data into large databases. Instead, one could use cryptography and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Thomas Leaute , Boi Faltings

Motivated by the rapid push to decentralize sharing of data, we study whether large-scale data sharing coalitions can form in a decentralized manner under differential privacy when players have heterogeneous privacy preferences. We first…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Raef Bassily , Kate Donahue , Diptangshu Sen , Annuo Zhao , Juba Ziani

Legal and ethical restrictions on accessing relevant data inhibit data science research in critical domains such as health, finance, and education. Synthetic data generation algorithms with privacy guarantees are emerging as a paradigm to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Mayana Pereira , Sikha Pentyala , Anderson Nascimento , Rafael T. de Sousa , Martine De Cock

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving data collection in distributed systems, where users contribute multi-dimensional records with potentially correlated attributes. Recent work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sandaru Jayawardana , Sennur Ulukus , Ming Ding , Kanchana Thilakarathna

In this work we compare two recent multiparty computation (MPC) protocols for private summation in terms of performance. Both protocols allow multiple rounds of aggregation from the same set of public keys generated by parties in an initial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Michael Clear , Constantinos Patsakis , Paul Laird

User-level privacy is important in distributed systems. Previous research primarily focuses on the central model, while the local models have received much less attention. Under the central model, user-level DP is strictly stronger than the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-28 Puning Zhao , Li Shen , Rongfei Fan , Qingming Li , Huiwen Wu , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

We study person-level differentially private (DP) mean estimation in the case where each person holds multiple samples. DP here requires the usual notion of distributional stability when $\textit{all}$ of a person's datapoints can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sushant Agarwal , Gautam Kamath , Mahbod Majid , Argyris Mouzakis , Rose Silver , Jonathan Ullman

Privacy preserving multi-party computation has many applications in areas such as medicine and online advertisements. In this work, we propose a framework for distributed, secure machine learning among untrusted individuals. The framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yunhui Long , Tanmay Gangwani , Haris Mughees , Carl Gunter

In recent years, Local Differential Privacy (LDP), a robust privacy-preserving methodology, has gained widespread adoption in real-world applications. With LDP, users can perturb their data on their devices before sending it out for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Karima Makhlouf , Catuscia Palamidessi

Local differential privacy (LPD) is a distributed variant of differential privacy (DP) in which the obfuscation of the sensitive information is done at the level of the individual records, and in general it is used to sanitize data that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Mário S. Alvim , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi , Anna Pazii

Sparse variable selection improves interpretability and generalization in high-dimensional learning by selecting a small subset of informative features. Recent advances in Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) have enabled solving large-scale…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-28 Petros Prastakos , Kayhan Behdin , Rahul Mazumder

Many applications of machine learning, such as human health research, involve processing private or sensitive information. Privacy concerns may impose significant hurdles to collaboration in scenarios where there are multiple sites holding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Hafiz Imtiaz , Jafar Mohammadi , Anand D. Sarwate

Private and public organizations regularly collect and analyze digitalized data about their associates, volunteers, clients, etc. However, because most personal data are sensitive, there is a key challenge in designing privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Héber H. Arcolezi

Many applications of machine learning, for example in health care, would benefit from methods that can guarantee privacy of data subjects. Differential privacy (DP) has become established as a standard for protecting learning results. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-30 Mikko Heikkilä , Eemil Lagerspetz , Samuel Kaski , Kana Shimizu , Sasu Tarkoma , Antti Honkela

E-values have gained prominence as flexible tools for statistical inference and risk control, enabling anytime- and post-hoc-valid procedures under minimal assumptions. However, many real-world applications fundamentally rely on sensitive…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-22 Daniel Csillag , Diego Mesquita

Split learning (SL) aims to protect user data privacy by distributing deep models between client-server and keeping private data locally. Only processed or `smashed' data can be transmitted from the clients to the server during the SL…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Ngoc Duy Pham , Khoa Tran Phan , Naveen Chilamkurti

We describe scalable protocols for solving the secure multi-party computation (MPC) problem among a large number of parties. We consider both the synchronous and the asynchronous communication models. In the synchronous setting, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Varsha Dani , Valerie King , Mahnush Movahedi , Jared Saia , Mahdi Zamani

In secure multi-party computations (SMC), parties wish to compute a function on their private data without revealing more information about their data than what the function reveals. In this paper, we investigate two Shannon-type questions…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Eun Jee Lee , Emmanuel Abbe