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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

Differential privacy is a strong mathematical notion of privacy. Still, a prominent challenge when using differential privacy in real data collection is understanding and counteracting the accuracy loss that differential privacy imposes. As…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Boel Nelson

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

We consider the problem of computing tight privacy guarantees for the composition of subsampled differentially private mechanisms. Recent algorithms can numerically compute the privacy parameters to arbitrary precision but must be carefully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Christian Janos Lebeda , Matthew Regehr , Gautam Kamath , Thomas Steinke

Shuffle model of differential privacy is a novel distributed privacy model based on a combination of local privacy mechanisms and a secure shuffler. It has been shown that the additional randomisation provided by the shuffler improves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Antti Koskela , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Honkela

Iterative algorithms, like gradient descent, are common tools for solving a variety of problems, such as model fitting. For this reason, there is interest in creating differentially private versions of them. However, their conversion to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Jaewoo Lee , Daniel Kifer

We study the problem of top-$k$ selection over a large domain universe subject to user-level differential privacy. Typically, the exponential mechanism or report noisy max are the algorithms used to solve this problem. However, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 David Durfee , Ryan Rogers

Confidential data, such as electronic health records, activity data from wearable devices, and geolocation data, are becoming increasingly prevalent. Differential privacy provides a framework to conduct statistical analyses while mitigating…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-05 Qi Guo , Andrés F. Barrientos , Víctor Peña

"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

We study privacy filters, which enable privacy accounting for differentially private (DP) mechanisms with adaptively chosen privacy characteristics. We develop a general theory that characterizes the worst-case privacy loss of an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Matthew Regehr , Bingshan Hu , Ethan Leeman , Pasin Manurangsi , Pierre Tholoniat , Mathias Lécuyer

As multi-agent systems proliferate, there is increasing demand for coordination protocols that protect agents' sensitive information while allowing them to collaborate. To help address this need, this paper presents a differentially private…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Calvin Hawkins , Matthew Hale

For evolving datasets with continual reports, the composition rule for differential privacy (DP) dictates that the scale of DP noise must grow linearly with the number of the queries, or that the privacy budget must be split equally between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Farhad Farokhi

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

Differential privacy has recently emerged as the de facto standard for private data release. This makes it possible to provide strong theoretical guarantees on the privacy and utility of released data. While it is well-known how to release…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Graham Cormode , Magda Procopiuc , Entong Shen , Divesh Srivastava , Ting Yu

The integration of Differential Privacy (DP) with diffusion models (DMs) presents a promising yet challenging frontier, particularly due to the substantial memorization capabilities of DMs that pose significant privacy risks. Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yu-Lin Tsai , Yizhe Li , Zekai Chen , Po-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Xuebin Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

Auditing differential privacy has emerged as an important area of research that supports the design of privacy-preserving mechanisms. Privacy audits help to obtain empirical estimates of the privacy parameter, to expose flawed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Önder Askin , Tim Kutta , Holger Dette

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

In this brief, we present an enhanced privacy-preserving distributed estimation algorithm, referred to as the ``Double-Private Algorithm," which combines the principles of both differential privacy (DP) and cryptography. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mehdi Korki , Fatemehsadat Hosseiniamin , Hadi Zayyani , Mehdi Bekrani

The need to analyze sensitive data, such as medical records or financial data, has created a critical research challenge in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the framework of differential privacy, and explore mechanisms for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nikolija Bojkovic , Po-Ling Loh

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