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We study the problem of private vector mean estimation in the shuffle model of privacy where $n$ users each have a unit vector $v^{(i)} \in\mathbb{R}^d$. We propose a new multi-message protocol that achieves the optimal error using…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hilal Asi , Vitaly Feldman , Jelani Nelson , Huy L. Nguyen , Kunal Talwar , Samson Zhou

We show a new lower bound on the sample complexity of $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithms that accurately answer statistical queries on high-dimensional databases. The novelty of our bound is that it depends optimally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

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

Differential privacy has emerged as the main definition for private data analysis and machine learning. The {\em global} model of differential privacy, which assumes that users trust the data collector, provides strong privacy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Joshua Allen , Bolin Ding , Janardhan Kulkarni , Harsha Nori , Olga Ohrimenko , Sergey Yekhanin

We study privacy in a distributed learning framework, where clients collaboratively build a learning model iteratively through interactions with a server from whom we need privacy. Motivated by stochastic optimization and the federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Antonious M. Girgis , Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi

Recently, it is shown that shuffling can amplify the central differential privacy guarantees of data randomized with local differential privacy. Within this setup, a centralized, trusted shuffler is responsible for shuffling by keeping the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Shun Takagi , Fumiyuki Kato , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

We consider the standard $K$-armed bandit problem under a distributed trust model of differential privacy (DP), which enables to guarantee privacy without a trustworthy server. Under this trust model, previous work largely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Xingyu Zhou

The shuffle model enhances privacy by anonymizing users' reports through random permutation. This paper presents the first systematic study of the single-message shuffle model from an information-theoretic perspective. We analyze two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Pengcheng Su , Haibo Cheng , Ping Wang

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

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

We study spectral graph clustering under edge differential privacy. We propose a matrix shuffling mechanism that combines randomized edge flipping with a random permutation of the adjacency matrix. While edge flipping alone provides only a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Antti Koskela , Mohamed Seif , H. Vincent Poor , Andrea J. Goldsmith

ldp deployments are vulnerable to inference attacks as an adversary can link the noisy responses to their identity and subsequently, auxiliary information using the order of the data. An alternative model, shuffle DP, prevents this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Casey Meehan , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Somesh Jha

In recent years, differential privacy has been adopted by tech-companies and governmental agencies as the standard for measuring privacy in algorithms. In this article, we study differential privacy in Bayesian posterior sampling settings.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Shenggang Hu , Louis Aslett , Hongsheng Dai , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts

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

Differential privacy is achieved by the introduction of Laplacian noise in the response to a query, establishing a precise trade-off between the level of differential privacy and the accuracy of the database response (via the amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Maurizio Naldi , Giuseppe D'Acquisto

We study a setting of collecting and learning from private data distributed across end users. In the shuffled model of differential privacy, the end users partially protect their data locally before sharing it, and their data is also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Tal Wagner

Differential privacy is a popular privacy model within the research community because of the strong privacy guarantee it offers, namely that the presence or absence of any individual in a data set does not significantly influence the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Jordi Soria-Comas , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , David Megías

Differential privacy (DP) is widely employed to provide privacy protection for individuals by limiting information leakage from the aggregated data. Two well-known models of DP are the central model and the local model. The former requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yucheng Fu , Tianhao Wang

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

Differential privacy is a de facto standard for statistical computations over databases that contain private data. The strength of differential privacy lies in a rigorous mathematical definition that guarantees individual privacy and yet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gilles Barthe , Rohit Chadha , Vishal Jagannath , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan