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Differential privacy (DP) is obtained by randomizing a data analysis algorithm, which necessarily introduces a tradeoff between its utility and privacy. Many DP mechanisms are built upon one of two underlying tools: Laplace and Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Roy Rinberg , Ilia Shumailov , Vikrant Singhal , Rachel Cummings , Nicolas Papernot

The remarkable proliferation of deep learning across various industries has underscored the importance of data privacy and security in AI pipelines. As the evolution of sophisticated Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) threatens the secrecy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Eugenio Lomurno , Alberto Archetti , Francesca Ausonio , Matteo Matteucci

We study mean estimation for Gaussian distributions under \textit{personalized differential privacy} (PDP), where each record has its own privacy budget. PDP is commonly considered in two variants: \textit{bounded} and \textit{unbounded}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Wei Dong , Li Ge

Differential privacy (DP), provides a framework for provable privacy protection against arbitrary adversaries, while allowing the release of summary statistics and synthetic data. We address the problem of releasing a noisy real-valued…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-04 Jordan Awan , Aleksandra Slavkovic

Differential Privacy (DP) is a probabilistic framework that protects privacy while preserving data utility. To protect the privacy of the individuals in the dataset, DP requires adding a precise amount of noise to a statistic of interest;…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-05 Yu-Wei Chen , Pranav Sanghi , Jordan Awan

We design a class of additive noise mechanisms that satisfy \((\varepsilon, \delta)\)-differential privacy (DP) for scalar, real-valued query functions with known sensitivities, with a particular focus on moderate and low-privacy regimes.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Huikang Liu , Aras Selvi , Wolfram Wiesemann

Differential privacy has seen remarkable success as a rigorous and practical formalization of data privacy in the past decade. This privacy definition and its divergence based relaxations, however, have several acknowledged weaknesses,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Jinshuo Dong , Aaron Roth , Weijie J. Su

In differentially private (DP) machine learning, the privacy guarantees of DP mechanisms are often reported and compared on the basis of a single $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-pair. This practice overlooks that DP guarantees can vary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Georgios Kaissis , Stefan Kolek , Borja Balle , Jamie Hayes , Daniel Rueckert

Differential privacy schemes have been widely adopted in recent years to address issues of data privacy protection. We propose a new Gaussian scheme combining with another data protection technique, called random orthogonal matrix masking,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-13 A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu , Guanhong Miao , Shigang Chen

The Gaussian mechanism is an essential building block used in multitude of differentially private data analysis algorithms. In this paper we revisit the Gaussian mechanism and show that the original analysis has several important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Borja Balle , Yu-Xiang Wang

Differential privacy is a de facto privacy framework that has seen adoption in practice via a number of mature software platforms. Implementation of differentially private (DP) mechanisms has to be done carefully to ensure end-to-end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Jiankai Jin , Eleanor McMurtry , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Olga Ohrimenko

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

Data-dependent privacy accounting frameworks such as per-instance differential privacy (pDP) and Fisher information loss (FIL) confer fine-grained privacy guarantees for individuals in a fixed training dataset. These guarantees can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shengyuan Hu , Saeed Mahloujifar , Virginia Smith , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Chuan Guo

In this paper, we present a framework based on differential privacy (DP) for querying electric power measurements to detect system anomalies or bad data. Our DP approach conceals consumption and system matrix data, while simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Nikhil Ravi , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert , Parth Pradhan

Differential Privacy (DP) is a mathematical framework that is increasingly deployed to mitigate privacy risks associated with machine learning and statistical analyses. Despite the growing adoption of DP, its technical privacy parameters do…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Rachel Cummings , Shlomi Hod , Jayshree Sarathy , Marika Swanberg

Given a trained model and a data sample, membership-inference (MI) attacks predict whether the sample was in the model's training set. A common countermeasure against MI attacks is to utilize differential privacy (DP) during model training…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Saeed Mahloujifar , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Graham Cormode , Somesh Jha

A continuing challenge for machine learning is providing methods to perform computation on data while ensuring the data remains private. In this paper we build on the provable privacy guarantees of differential privacy which has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Michael Thomas Smith , Mauricio A. Alvarez , Neil D. Lawrence

Gaussian processes (GPs) are non-parametric Bayesian models that are widely used for diverse prediction tasks. Previous work in adding strong privacy protection to GPs via differential privacy (DP) has been limited to protecting only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Antti Honkela , Laila Melkas

We consider a dataset $S$ held by an agency, and a vector query of interest, $f(S) \in \mathbb{R}^k$, to be posed by an analyst, which contains the information required for certain planned statistical inference. The agency releases the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Tomer Shoham , Yosef Rinott

This paper addresses the problem of protecting network information from privacy system identification (SI) attacks when sharing cyber-physical system simulations. We model analyst observations of networked states as time-series outputs of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Andrew Campbell , Anna Scaglione , Hang Liu , Victor Elvira , Sean Peisert , Daniel Arnold