English
Related papers

Related papers: Improved Differentially Private Euclidean Distance…

200 papers

We propose a novel and systematic differentially private (DP) inference framework for non-Euclidean data. First, we design two types of DP mechanisms for the Fr\'echet mean and variance with i.i.d. Riemannian manifold-valued data, tailored…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-15 Yangdi Jiang , Xiaotian Chang , Qirui Hu

Gaussian sketching, which consists of pre-multiplying the data with a random Gaussian matrix, is a widely used technique for multiple problems in data science and machine learning, with applications spanning computationally efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Omri Lev , Vishwak Srinivasan , Moshe Shenfeld , Katrina Ligett , Ayush Sekhari , Ashia C. Wilson

We develop data processing inequalities that describe how Fisher information from statistical samples can scale with the privacy parameter $\varepsilon$ under local differential privacy constraints. These bounds are valid under general…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Leighton Pate Barnes , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Ozgur

Differential privacy is the leading mathematical framework for privacy protection, providing a probabilistic guarantee that safeguards individuals' private information when publishing statistics from a dataset. This guarantee is achieved by…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-19 Yuki Ohnishi , Jordan Awan

Parameter estimation in statistics and system identification relies on data that may contain sensitive information. To protect this sensitive information, the notion of \emph{differential privacy} (DP) has been proposed, which enforces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Braghadeesh Lakshminarayanan , Cristian R. Rojas

We study differentially private mean estimation in a high-dimensional setting. Existing differential privacy techniques applied to large dimensions lead to computationally intractable problems or estimators with excessive privacy loss.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Aditya Dhar , Jason Huang

We present a highly effective algorithmic approach for generating $\varepsilon$-differentially private synthetic data in a bounded metric space with near-optimal utility guarantees under the 1-Wasserstein distance. In particular, for a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Yiyun He , Roman Vershynin , Yizhe Zhu

We consider online and PAC learning of Littlestone classes subject to the constraint of approximate differential privacy. Our main result is a private learner to online-learn a Littlestone class with a mistake bound of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-02 Xin Lyu

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 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 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

We introduce the multi-dimensional Skellam mechanism, a discrete differential privacy mechanism based on the difference of two independent Poisson random variables. To quantify its privacy guarantees, we analyze the privacy loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Naman Agarwal , Peter Kairouz , Ziyu Liu

Individual privacy accounting enables bounding differential privacy (DP) loss individually for each participant involved in the analysis. This can be informative as often the individual privacy losses are considerably smaller than those…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Antti Koskela , Marlon Tobaben , Antti Honkela

In this paper, we propose a novel Euclidean-distance-based coefficient, named differential distance correlation, to measure the strength of dependence between a random variable $ Y \in \mathbb{R} $ and a random vector $ \boldsymbol{X} \in…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-16 Yixiao Liu , Pengjian Shang

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

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

Extended differential privacy, a generalization of standard differential privacy (DP) using a general metric, has been widely studied to provide rigorous privacy guarantees while keeping high utility. However, existing works on extended DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Natasha Fernandes , Yusuke Kawamoto , Takao Murakami

Label differential privacy (DP) is a framework that protects the privacy of labels in training datasets, while the feature vectors are public. Existing approaches protect the privacy of labels by flipping them randomly, and then train a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Puning Zhao , Rongfei Fan , Huiwen Wu , Qingming Li , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

A key tool for building differentially private systems is adding Gaussian noise to the output of a function evaluated on a sensitive dataset. Unfortunately, using a continuous distribution presents several practical challenges. First and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Clément L. Canonne , Gautam Kamath , Thomas Steinke

We introduce an $(\epsilon, \delta)$-jointly differentially private algorithm for packing problems. Our algorithm not only achieves the optimal trade-off between the privacy parameter $\epsilon$ and the minimum supply requirement (up to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Zhiyi Huang , Xue Zhu