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The turnstile continual release model of differential privacy captures scenarios where a privacy-preserving real-time analysis is sought for a dataset evolving through additions and deletions. In typical applications of real-time data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rachel Cummings , Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Tamalika Mukherjee , Tingting Ou , Peilin Zhong

This paper studies the problem of multi-agent computation under the differential privacy requirement of the agents' local datasets against eavesdroppers having node-to-node communications. We first propose for the network equipped with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Lei Wang , Yang Liu , Ian Manchester , Guodong Shi

Nowadays, crowd sensing becomes increasingly more popular due to the ubiquitous usage of mobile devices. However, the quality of such human-generated sensory data varies significantly among different users. To better utilize sensory data,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Yaliang Li , Houping Xiao , Zhan Qin , Chenglin Miao , Lu Su , Jing Gao , Kui Ren , Bolin Ding

Differential privacy is a widely adopted framework designed to safeguard the sensitive information of data providers within a data set. It is based on the application of controlled noise at the interface between the server that stores and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Rūta Binkytė , Carlos Pinzón , Szilvia Lestyán , Kangsoo Jung , Héber H. Arcolezi , Catuscia Palamidessi

In Internet of Things (IoT) driven smart-world systems, real-time crowd-sourced databases from multiple distributed servers can be aggregated to extract dynamic statistics from a larger population, thus providing more reliable knowledge for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuebin Ren , Chia-Mu Yu , Wei Yu , Xinyu Yang , Jun Zhao , Shusen Yang

Statistical model checking is a class of sequential algorithms that can verify specifications of interest on an ensemble of cyber-physical systems (e.g., whether 99% of cars from a batch meet a requirement on their energy efficiency). These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Yu Wang , Hussein Sibai , Mark Yen , Sayan Mitra , Geir E. Dullerud

Differential privacy is a mathematical notion of data privacy that has fast become the de facto standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. Recently a lot of work has focused on differential privacy in the quantum setting. Continuing on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Arghya Mukherjee , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Gavin K. Brennen

Estimating the quantiles of a large dataset is a fundamental problem in both the streaming algorithms literature and the differential privacy literature. However, all existing private mechanisms for distribution-independent quantile…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Daniel Alabi , Omri Ben-Eliezer , Anamay Chaturvedi

With the growing volume of data in society, the need for privacy protection in data analysis also rises. In particular, private selection tasks, wherein the most important information is retrieved under differential privacy are emphasized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Akito Yamamoto , Tetsuo Shibuya

There are now several large scale deployments of differential privacy used to collect statistical information about users. However, these deployments periodically recollect the data and recompute the statistics using algorithms designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Matthew Joseph , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman , Bo Waggoner

Modern stream-based monitors collect detailed statistics of the runtime behavior of the system under observation. If the system runs in a privacy-sensitive context, this poses the risk of disclosing sensitive information. Differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Bernd Finkbeiner , Frederik Scheerer

Fast and accurate estimation of quantiles on data streams coming from communication networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and alike, is at the heart of important data processing applications including statistical analysis, latency monitoring,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Massimo Cafaro , Aneglo Coluccia , Italo Epicoco , Marco Pulimeno

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

Local differential privacy (LDP) can provide each user with strong privacy guarantees under untrusted data curators while ensuring accurate statistics derived from privatized data. Due to its powerfulness, LDP has been widely adopted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Teng Wang , Jun Zhao , Xinyu Yang , Xuebin Ren

Streaming data, crucial for applications like crowdsourcing analytics, behavior studies, and real-time monitoring, faces significant privacy risks due to the large and diverse data linked to individuals. In particular, recent efforts to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shuya Feng , Meisam Mohammady , Han Wang , Xiaochen Li , Zhan Qin , Yuan Hong

In differential privacy, $\textit{continual observation}$ refers to problems in which we wish to continuously release a function of a dataset that is revealed one element at a time. The challenge is to maintain a good approximation while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Joel Daniel Andersson , Rasmus Pagh

In applications such as event monitoring, log analysis, and video querying, $w$-event privacy protects individual data within a sliding time window while supporting accurate stream statistics. Existing studies on infinite data streams…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Leilei Du , Xu Zhou , Peng Cheng , Lei Chen , Xuemin Lin , Wei Xi , Kenli Li

We develop formal privacy mechanisms for releasing statistics from data with many outlying values, such as income data. These mechanisms ensure that a per-record differential privacy guarantee degrades slowly in the protected records'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Brian Finley , Anthony M Caruso , Justin C Doty , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Mikaela R Meyer , David Pujol , William Sexton , Zachary Terner

We propose a general privacy-preserving optimization-based framework for real-time environments without requiring trusted data curators. In particular, we introduce a noisy stochastic gradient descent algorithm for online statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-11 Jinhan Xie , Enze Shi , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong , Xuming He

Differential privacy (DP) and local differential privacy (LPD) are frameworks to protect sensitive information in data collections. They are both based on obfuscation. In DP the noise is added to the result of queries on the dataset,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Natasha Fernandes , Kacem Lefki , Catuscia Palamidessi