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The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Prior work on differential privacy analysis of randomized SGD algorithms relies on composition theorems, where the implicit (unrealistic) assumption is that the internal state of the iterative algorithm is revealed to the adversary. As a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Jiayuan Ye , Reza Shokri

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

We give a fast algorithm to optimally compose privacy guarantees of differentially private (DP) algorithms to arbitrary accuracy. Our method is based on the notion of privacy loss random variables to quantify the privacy loss of DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Sivakanth Gopi , Yin Tat Lee , Lukas Wutschitz

We define a new interactive differentially private mechanism -- the median mechanism -- for answering arbitrary predicate queries that arrive online. Relative to fixed accuracy and privacy constraints, this mechanism can answer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-20 Aaron Roth , Tim Roughgarden

Most differential privacy mechanisms are applied (i.e., composed) numerous times on sensitive data. We study the design of optimal differential privacy mechanisms in the limit of a large number of compositions. As a consequence of the law…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Wael Alghamdi , Shahab Asoodeh , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar , Fei Wei

We study the power of interactivity in local differential privacy. First, we focus on the difference between fully interactive and sequentially interactive protocols. Sequentially interactive protocols may query users adaptively in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Matthew Joseph , Jieming Mao , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth

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

The powerful cooperation of federated learning (FL) and differential privacy~(DP) provides a promising paradigm for the large-scale private clients. However, existing analyses in FL-DP mostly rely on the composition theorem and cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yan Sun , Qixin Zhang , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous privacy guarantees on individual's data while also allowing for accurate statistics to be conducted on the overall, sensitive dataset. To design a private system, first private algorithms must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mark Cesar , Ryan Rogers

In this paper we initiate the study of adaptive composition in differential privacy when the length of the composition, and the privacy parameters themselves can be chosen adaptively, as a function of the outcome of previously run analyses.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Ryan Rogers , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman , Salil Vadhan

Privacy is an essential issue in data trading markets. This work uses a mechanism design approach to study the optimal market model to economize the value of privacy of personal data, using differential privacy. The buyer uses a finite…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Tao Zhang , Quanyan Zhu

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely-accepted and widely-applied notion of privacy based on worst-case analysis. Often, DP classifies most mechanisms without additive noise as non-private (Dwork et al., 2014). Thus, additive noises are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ao Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Lirong Xia

Privacy is an increasingly important aspect of data publishing. Reasoning about privacy, however, is fraught with pitfalls. One of the most significant is the auxiliary information (also called external knowledge, background knowledge, or…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Srivatsava Ranjit Ganta , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Adam Smith

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion that restricts the privacy leakage of an algorithm when running on sensitive data, in which privacy-utility trade-off is one of the central problems in private data analysis. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bo Li , Wei Wang , Peng Ye

This chapter is meant to be part of the book "Differential Privacy for Artificial Intelligence Applications." We give an introduction to the most important property of differential privacy -- composition: running multiple independent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Thomas Steinke

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

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

This paper introduces a differentially private (DP) mechanism to protect the information exchanged during the coordination of sequential and interdependent markets. This coordination represents a classic Stackelberg game and relies on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Ferdinando Fioretto , Lesia Mitridati , Pascal Van Hentenryck

Releasing the result size of conjunctive queries and graph pattern queries under differential privacy (DP) has received considerable attention in the literature, but existing solutions do not offer any optimality guarantees. We provide the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wei Dong , Ke Yi