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One way to classify private set intersection (PSI) for secure 2-party computation is whether the intersection is (a) revealed to both parties or (b) hidden from both parties while only the computing function of the matched payload is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Jian Du , Tianxi Ji , Jamie Cui , Lei Zhang , Yufei Lu , Pu Duan

Many algorithms have been developed to estimate probability distributions subject to differential privacy (DP): such an algorithm takes as input independent samples from a distribution and estimates the density function in a way that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Albert Cheu , Debanuj Nayak

The increased use of differential privacy (DP) has allowed the sharing of large amounts of data while reducing the risk of disclosure of sensitive information at the individual level. However, the noise introduced by DP methods makes…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-29 Jordan Awan , Xi Chen , Roberto Molinari

Probabilistic independence is a useful concept for describing the result of random sampling---a basic operation in all probabilistic languages---and for reasoning about groups of random variables. Nevertheless, existing verification methods…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Gilles Barthe , Justin Hsu , Kevin Liao

Modern statistical estimation is often performed in a distributed setting where each sample belongs to a single user who shares their data with a central server. Users are typically concerned with preserving the privacy of their samples,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Gecia Bravo-Hermsdorff , Róbert Busa-Fekete , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Andres Muñoz Medina , Umar Syed

Differentially private synthetic data generation offers a recent solution to release analytically useful data while preserving the privacy of individuals in the data. In order to utilize these algorithms for public policy decisions,…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-13 Claire McKay Bowen , Joshua Snoke

Kernel two-sample testing is a useful statistical tool in determining whether data samples arise from different distributions without imposing any parametric assumptions on those distributions. However, raw data samples can expose sensitive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-02 Anant Raj , Ho Chung Leon Law , Dino Sejdinovic , Mijung Park

Principal components analysis (PCA) is a standard tool for identifying good low-dimensional approximations to data in high dimension. Many data sets of interest contain private or sensitive information about individuals. Algorithms which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-08-09 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Anand D. Sarwate , Kaushik Sinha

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used notion for reasoning about privacy when publishing aggregate data. In this paper, we observe that certain DP mechanisms are amenable to a posteriori privacy analysis that exploits the fact that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Valentin Hartmann , Vincent Bindschaedler , Alexander Bentkamp , Robert West

Conformal prediction (CP) has attracted broad attention as a simple and flexible framework for uncertainty quantification through prediction sets. In this work, we study how to deploy CP under differential privacy (DP) in a statistically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Jiamei Wu , Ce Zhang , Zhipeng Cai , Jingsen Kong , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong , Lingchen Kong

Data privacy is a major issue for many decades, several techniques have been developed to make sure individuals' privacy but still world has seen privacy failures. In 2006, Cynthia Dwork gave the idea of Differential Privacy which gave…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Muhammad Aitsam

This paper develops a novel unified framework for testing mutual independence among random objects residing in possibly different metric spaces. The framework generalizes existing methodologies and introduces new measures of mutual…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-22 Yaqing Chen , Paromita Dubey

We present a data analytics system that ensures accurate counts can be released with differential privacy and minimal onboarding effort while showing instances that outperform other approaches that require more onboarding effort. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Ryan Rogers

Testing independence among a number of (ultra) high-dimensional random samples is a fundamental and challenging problem. By arranging $n$ identically distributed $p$-dimensional random vectors into a $p \times n$ data matrix, we investigate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Xi Chen , Weidong Liu

We propose the conditional predictive impact (CPI), a consistent and unbiased estimator of the association between one or several features and a given outcome, conditional on a reduced feature set. Building on the knockoff framework of…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-14 David S. Watson , Marvin N. Wright

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

In order to both learn and protect sensitive training data, there has been a growing interest in privacy preserving machine learning methods. Differential privacy has emerged as an important measure of privacy. We are interested in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Antoine Barczewski , Amal Mawass , Jan Ramon

For a dataset of label-count pairs, an anonymized histogram is the multiset of counts. Anonymized histograms appear in various potentially sensitive contexts such as password-frequency lists, degree distribution in social networks, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ananda Theertha Suresh

With the development of big data and machine learning, privacy concerns have become increasingly critical, especially when handling heterogeneous datasets containing sensitive personal information. Differential privacy provides a rigorous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-08 Ziliang Shen , Caixing Wang , Shaoli Wang , Yibo Yan

The literature on differential privacy almost invariably assumes that the data to be analyzed are fully observed. In most practical applications this is an unrealistic assumption. A popular strategy to address this problem is imputation, in…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Soumojit Das , Jorg Drechsler , Keith Merrill , Shawn Merrill