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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) has become the gold standard for privacy-preserving data analysis, but its applicability can be limited in scenarios involving complex dependencies between sensitive information and datasets. To address this, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Tao Zhang , Bradley A. Malin , Netanel Raviv , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

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

Differential privacy (DP) provides formal guarantees that the output of a database query does not reveal too much information about any individual present in the database. While many differentially private algorithms have been proposed in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Royce J Wilson , Celia Yuxin Zhang , William Lam , Damien Desfontaines , Daniel Simmons-Marengo , Bryant Gipson

Standard differential privacy imposes uniform privacy constraints across all features, overlooking the inherent distinction between sensitive and insensitive features in practice. In this paper, we introduce a relaxed definition of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Tianyu Wang , Luhao Zhang , Rachel Cummings

We consider a refinement of differential privacy --- per instance differential privacy (pDP), which captures the privacy of a specific individual with respect to a fixed data set. We show that this is a strict generalization of the standard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-15 Yu-Xiang Wang

Machine learning models should not reveal particular information that is not otherwise accessible. Differential privacy provides a formal framework to mitigate privacy risks by ensuring that the inclusion or exclusion of any single data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

Privacy-preserving computer vision is an important emerging problem in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Prevalent methods tackling this problem use differential privacy (DP) or obfuscation techniques to protect the privacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 David Schneider , Sina Sajadmanesh , Vikash Sehwag , Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Lingjuan Lyu , Vivek Sharma

Differential Privacy (DP) is a widely adopted standard for privacy-preserving data analysis, but it assumes a uniform privacy budget across all records, limiting its applicability when privacy requirements vary with data values. Per-record…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xinghe Chen , Dajun Sun , Quanqing Xu , Wei Dong

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard of privacy preservation due to its strong protection and sound mathematical foundation, which is widely adopted in different applications such as big data analysis, graph data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Honglu Jiang , Yifeng Gao , S M Sarwar , Luis GarzaPerez , Mahmudul Robin

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

Data valuation methods quantify how individual training examples contribute to a model's behavior, and are increasingly used for dataset curation, auditing, and emerging data markets. As these techniques become operational, they raise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yiwei Fu , Tianhao Wang , Varun Chandrasekaran

Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto standard for training machine learning (ML) models, including neural networks, while ensuring the privacy of individual examples in the training set. Despite a rich literature on how to train ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Alexey Kurakin , Shuang Song , Steve Chien , Roxana Geambasu , Andreas Terzis , Abhradeep Thakurta

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

Mobile apps and location-based services generate large amounts of location data that can benefit research on traffic optimization, context-aware notifications and public health (e.g., spread of contagious diseases). To preserve individual…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Sepanta Zeighami , Ritesh Ahuja , Gabriel Ghinita , Cyrus Shahabi

Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto notion of privacy both in theory and in practice. However, despite its popularity, DP imposes strict requirements which guard against strong worst-case scenarios. For example, it guards against…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guy Blanc , William Pires , Toniann Pitassi

Differentially private (DP) image synthesis aims to generate artificial images that retain the properties of sensitive images while protecting the privacy of individual images within the dataset. Despite recent advancements, we find that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chen Gong , Kecen Li , Zinan Lin , Tianhao Wang

The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki

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

Differential privacy (DP) considers a scenario, where an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy thread for an individual in real life.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk