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Training machine learning models, including Grid Foundation Models (GFMs), requires large volumes of realistic grid data, yet substantial privacy concerns discourage utilities and data providers from sharing load profiles and network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Andrew Campbell , Chenyue Zhang , Anna Scaglione , Eli Kerr , Merilyn Chesler , Sean Peisert

For the modeling, design and planning of future energy transmission networks, it is vital for stakeholders to access faithful and useful power flow data, while provably maintaining the privacy of business confidentiality of service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 David Smith , Frederik Geth , Elliott Vercoe , Andrew Feutrill , Ming Ding , Jonathan Chan , James Foster , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

Motivated by a real-life problem of sharing social network data that contain sensitive personal information, we propose a novel approach to release and analyze synthetic graphs in order to protect privacy of individual relationships…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-26 Vishesh Karwa , Pavel N. Krivitsky , Aleksandra B. Slavković

This paper investigates the problem of forecasting multivariate aggregated human mobility while preserving the privacy of the individuals concerned. Differential privacy, a state-of-the-art formal notion, has been used as the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Héber H. Arcolezi , Jean-François Couchot , Denis Renaud , Bechara Al Bouna , Xiaokui Xiao

Graphs offer unique insights into relationships between entities, complementing data modalities like text and images and enabling AI models to extend their capabilities beyond traditional tasks. However, learning from graphs often involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Haoteng Yin , Rongzhe Wei , Eli Chien , Pan Li

Decentralized optimization is increasingly popular in machine learning for its scalability and efficiency. Intuitively, it should also provide better privacy guarantees, as nodes only observe the messages sent by their neighbors in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Edwige Cyffers , Mathieu Even , Aurélien Bellet , Laurent Massoulié

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

Computing matchings in graphs is a foundational algorithmic task. Despite extensive interest in differentially private (DP) graph analysis, work on privately computing matching solutions, rather than just their size, has been sparse. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Michael Dinitz , George Z. Li , Quanquan C. Liu , Felix Zhou

Differentially private algorithms allow large-scale data analytics while preserving user privacy. Designing such algorithms for graph data is gaining importance with the growth of large networks that model various (sensitive) relationships…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Laxman Dhulipala , Quanquan C. Liu , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Jessica Shi , Julian Shun , Shangdi Yu

This paper is the first to attempt differentially private (DP) topological data analysis (TDA), producing near-optimal private persistence diagrams. We analyze the sensitivity of persistence diagrams in terms of the bottleneck distance, and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-06 Taegyu Kang , Sehwan Kim , Jinwon Sohn , Jordan Awan

Machine learned models trained on organizational communication data, such as emails in an enterprise, carry unique risks of breaching confidentiality, even if the model is intended only for internal use. This work shows how confidentiality…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Masoumeh Shafieinejad , Huseyin Inan , Marcello Hasegawa , Robert Sim

Differentially private gradient descent (DP-GD) is a popular algorithm to train deep learning models with provable guarantees on the privacy of the training data. In the last decade, the problem of understanding its performance cost with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Simone Bombari , Marco Mondelli

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

Models need to be trained with privacy-preserving learning algorithms to prevent leakage of possibly sensitive information contained in their training data. However, canonical algorithms like differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yannis Cattan , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Nicolas Papernot , Abhradeep Thakurta

This paper develops a framework for privatizing the spectrum of the graph Laplacian of an undirected graph using differential privacy. We consider two privacy formulations. The first obfuscates the presence of edges in the graph and the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Calvin Hawkins , Bo Chen , Kasra Yazdani , Matthew Hale

We design algorithms for fitting a high-dimensional statistical model to a large, sparse network without revealing sensitive information of individual members. Given a sparse input graph $G$, our algorithms output a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Adam Smith

Differentially private (DP) release of multidimensional statistics typically considers an aggregate sensitivity, e.g. the vector norm of a high-dimensional vector. However, different dimensions of that vector might have widely different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-31 Joonas Jälkö , Lukas Prediger , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

Differential privacy has emerged as a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. A popular variant is local differential privacy, where the data holder is the trusted curator. A major barrier, however, towards a wider adoption of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Joseph Geumlek , Kamalika Chaudhuri

This paper considers the problem of releasing privacy-preserving load data of a decentralized operated power system. The paper focuses on data used to solve Optimal Power Flow (OPF) problems and proposes a distributed algorithm that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Terrence W. K. Mak , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck

We propose a novel algorithm to ensure $\epsilon$-differential privacy for answering range queries on trajectory data. In order to guarantee privacy, differential privacy mechanisms add noise to either data or query, thus introducing errors…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Soheila Ghane , Lars Kulik , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao