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Differential Privacy (DP) is being increasingly adopted for non-Euclidean data that lie on complex, high-dimensional manifolds. Existing DP mechanisms for manifold data consider geometric properties when calibrating privacy perturbations,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Peilin He , Liou Tang , M. Amin Rahimian , James Joshi

Malicious adversaries can attack machine learning models to infer sensitive information or damage the system by launching a series of evasion attacks. Although various work addresses privacy and security concerns, they focus on individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Janvi Thakkar , Giulio Zizzo , Sergio Maffeis

With the rapid growth of digital platforms, there is increasing apprehension about how personal data is being collected, stored, and used by various entities. These concerns range from data breaches and cyber-attacks to potential misuse of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Christopher Zawacki , Eyad Abed

As increasing amounts of sensitive personal information is aggregated into data repositories, it has become important to develop mechanisms for processing the data without revealing information about individual data instances. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-17 Manas A. Pathak , Bhiksha Raj

The Gaussian mechanism (GM) represents a universally employed tool for achieving differential privacy (DP), and a large body of work has been devoted to its analysis. We argue that the three prevailing interpretations of the GM, namely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Georgios Kaissis , Moritz Knolle , Friederike Jungmann , Alexander Ziller , Dmitrii Usynin , Daniel Rueckert

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard for protecting sensitive data, providing strong guarantees that published statistics or models reveal limited information about any individual. However, privacy noise and restricted…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mariia Vologdin , Yuchao Tao , Amir Gilad

The task of statistical inference, which includes the building of confidence intervals and tests for parameters and effects of interest to a researcher, is still an open area of investigation in a differentially private (DP) setting.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-17 Ogonnaya Michael Romanus , Younes Boulaguiem , Roberto Molinari

"f differential privacy" (fDP) is a recent definition for privacy privacy which can offer improved predictions of "privacy loss". It has been used to analyse specific privacy mechanisms, such as the popular Gaussian mechanism. In this paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Natasha Fernandes , Annabelle McIver , Parastoo Sadeghi

In modern settings of data analysis, we may be running our algorithms on datasets that are sensitive in nature. However, classical machine learning and statistical algorithms were not designed with these risks in mind, and it has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Huanyu Zhang

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has attracted increasing attention recently owing to its impressive ability to generate realistic samples with high privacy protection. Without directly interactive with training examples, the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Bo Liu , Kang Wei , Jian Weng , H. Vincent Poor

Differential privacy (DP) is the prevailing technique for protecting user data in machine learning models. However, deficits to this framework include a lack of clarity for selecting the privacy budget $\epsilon$ and a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Tyler LeBlond , Joseph Munoz , Fred Lu , Maya Fuchs , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Brian Testa

To resolve the acute problem of privacy protection and guarantee that data can be used in the context of threat intelligence, this paper considers the implementation of Differential Privacy (DP) in cybersecurity analytics. DP, which is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Brahim Khalil Sedraoui , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Amina Makhlouf , Chaouki Chemam

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used approach for mitigating privacy risks when training machine learning models on sensitive data. DP mechanisms add noise during training to limit the risk of information leakage. The scale of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Bogdan Kulynych , Juan Felipe Gomez , Georgios Kaissis , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Carmela Troncoso

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to protect data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. The DP techniques, however, hinder achieving a greater…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms protect individual-level information by introducing randomness into the statistical analysis procedure. Despite the availability of numerous DP tools, there remains a lack of general techniques for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-25 Zhanyu Wang , Guang Cheng , Jordan Awan

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Differential privacy is a recent notion of privacy for statistical databases that provides rigorous, meaningful confidentiality guarantees, even in the presence of an attacker with access to arbitrary side information. We show that for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Adam Smith

The wide deployment of machine learning in recent years gives rise to a great demand for large-scale and high-dimensional data, for which the privacy raises serious concern. Differential privacy (DP) mechanisms are conventionally developed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Jungang Yang , Liyao Xiang , Weiting Li , Wei Liu , Xinbing Wang

We present a novel method for accurately auditing the differential privacy (DP) guarantees of DP mechanisms. In particular, our solution is applicable to auditing DP guarantees of machine learning (ML) models. Previous auditing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Antti Koskela , Jafar Mohammadi

The Gaussian mechanism is one differential privacy mechanism commonly used to protect numerical data. However, it may be ill-suited to some applications because it has unbounded support and thus can produce invalid numerical answers to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Bo Chen , Matthew Hale