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The design of a statistical signal processing privacy problem is studied where the private data is assumed to be observable. In this work, an agent observes useful data $Y$, which is correlated with private data $X$, and wants to disclose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Amirreza Zamani , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Due to successful applications of data analysis technologies in many fields, various institutions have accumulated a large amount of data to improve their services. As the speed of data collection has increased dramatically over the last…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Wen Huang , Shijie Zhou , Tianqing Zhu , Yongjian Liao

We present a framework to statistically audit the privacy guarantee conferred by a differentially private machine learner in practice. While previous works have taken steps toward evaluating privacy loss through poisoning attacks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fred Lu , Joseph Munoz , Maya Fuchs , Tyler LeBlond , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro , Brian Testa

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) has become an essential strategy for adapting them to specialized tasks; however, this process introduces significant privacy challenges, as sensitive training data may be inadvertently memorized and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Hao Du , Shang Liu , Yang Cao

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees simultaneously enabling useful insights from sensitive datasets. However, it provides the same level of protection for all elements (individuals and attributes) in the data. There are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-30 Parameswaran Kamalaruban , Victor Perrier , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

In 2011 Bhaskar et al. pointed out that in many cases one can ensure sufficient level of privacy without adding noise by utilizing adversarial uncertainty. Informally speaking, this observation comes from the fact that if at least a part of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Krzysztof Grining , Marek Klonowski

How to achieve differential privacy in the distributed setting, where the dataset is distributed among the distrustful parties, is an important problem. We consider in what condition can a protocol inherit the differential privacy property…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-04-06 Genqiang Wu , Yeping He , Jingzheng Wu , Xianyao Xia

In machine learning, privacy requirements at inference or deployment time often evolve due to changing policies, regulations, or user preferences. In this work, we aim to construct a magnitude of models to satisfy any target differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Qichuan Yin , Manzil Zaheer , Tian Li

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

In recent years, an increasing amount of data is collected in different and often, not cooperative, databases. The problem of privacy-preserving, distributed calculations over separated databases and, a relative to it, issue of private data…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Philip Derbeko , Shlomi Dolev , Ehud Gudes , Jeffrey D. Ullman

In this paper, we describe our approach to achieve distributed differential privacy by sampling alone. Our mechanism works in the semi-honest setting (honest-but-curious whereby aggregators attempt to peek at the data though follow the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Joshua Joy

Differential privacy mechanisms such as the Gaussian or Laplace mechanism have been widely used in data analytics for preserving individual privacy. However, they are mostly designed for continuous outputs and are unsuitable for scenarios…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Zhongteng Cai , Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili

Differential privacy is a privacy measure based on the difficulty of discriminating between similar input data. In differential privacy analysis, similar data usually implies that their distance does not exceed a predetermined threshold.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Genki Sugiura , Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

Learning a privacy-preserving model from sensitive data which are distributed across multiple devices is an increasingly important problem. The problem is often formulated in the federated learning context, with the aim of learning a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Mikko A. Heikkilä , Matthew Ashman , Siddharth Swaroop , Richard E. Turner , Antti Honkela

Auditing mechanisms for differential privacy use probabilistic means to empirically estimate the privacy level of an algorithm. For private machine learning, existing auditing mechanisms are tight: the empirical privacy estimate (nearly)…

In recent years, differential privacy has emerged as the de facto standard for sharing statistics of datasets while limiting the disclosure of private information about the involved individuals. This is achieved by randomly perturbing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Aras Selvi , Huikang Liu , Wolfram Wiesemann

Differential privacy (DP) is widely employed in machine learning to protect confidential or sensitive training data from being revealed. As data owners gain greater control over their data due to personal data ownership, they are more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiao Tian , Jue Fan , Rachael Hwee Ling Sim , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

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

Ensuring differential privacy of models learned from sensitive user data is an important goal that has been studied extensively in recent years. It is now known that for some basic learning problems, especially those involving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Cynthia Dwork , Vitaly Feldman

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