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The standard closed form lower bound on $\sigma$ for providing $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy by adding zero mean Gaussian noise with variance $\sigma^2$ is $\sigma > \Delta\sqrt {2}(\epsilon^{-1}) \sqrt {\log \left(…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Staal A. Vinterbo

It is a common practice to evaluate probability density function or matter spatial density function from statistical samples. Kernel density estimation is a frequently used method, but to select an optimal bandwidth of kernel estimation,…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-27 Zhen-Wei Li , Ping He

Differential privacy is a formal mathematical {stand-ard} for quantifying the degree of that individual privacy in a statistical database is preserved. To guarantee differential privacy, a typical method is adding random noise to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jianping He , Lin Cai

We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data is used in k steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of t steps. This sampling scheme has been recently applied in the context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Vitaly Feldman , Moshe Shenfeld

We propose a new method of perturbing a major variable by adding noise such that results of regression analysis are unaffected. The extent of the perturbation can be controlled using a single parameter, which eases an actual perturbation…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-10 Yuzo Maruyama , Ryoko Tone , Yasushi Asami

Sparse histogram methods can be useful for returning differentially private counts of items in large or infinite histograms, large group-by queries, and more generally, releasing a set of statistics with sufficient item counts. We consider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Brian Karrer , Daniel Kifer , Arjun Wilkins , Danfeng Zhang

Noiseless subsystems offer a general and efficient method for protecting quantum information in the presence of noise that has symmetry properties. A paradigmatic class of error models displaying non-trivial symmetries emerges under…

In recent years, Gaussian noise has become a popular tool in differentially private algorithms, often replacing Laplace noise which dominated the early literature. Gaussian noise is the standard approach to $\textit{approximate}$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Joel Daniel Andersson , Rasmus Pagh , Teresa Anna Steiner , Sahel Torkamani

Noise in quantum information processing is often viewed as a disruptive and difficult-to-avoid feature, especially in near-term quantum technologies. However, noise has often played beneficial roles, from enhancing weak signals in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Yuxuan Du , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao , Nana Liu

Privacy and communication constraints are two major bottlenecks in federated learning (FL) and analytics (FA). We study the optimal accuracy of mean and frequency estimation (canonical models for FL and FA respectively) under joint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-05 Wei-Ning Chen , Dan Song , Ayfer Ozgur , Peter Kairouz

Differential privacy is a standard framework to quantify the privacy loss in the data anonymization process. To preserve differential privacy, a random noise adding mechanism is widely adopted, where the trade-off between data privacy level…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Shuying Qin , Jianping He , Chongrong Fang , James Lam

In recent years the amount of digital data in the world has risen immensely. But, the more information exists, the greater is the possibility of its unwanted disclosure. Thus, the data privacy protection has become a pressing problem of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-05 Oleg Chertov , Dan Tavrov

We derive the optimal $(0, \delta)$-differentially private query-output independent noise-adding mechanism for single real-valued query function under a general cost-minimization framework. Under a mild technical condition, we show that the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Quan Geng , Wei Ding , Ruiqi Guo , Sanjiv Kumar

Quantum computation has been growing rapidly in both theory and experiments. In particular, quantum computing devices with a large number of qubits have been developed by IBM, Google, IonQ, and others. The current quantum computing devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Rishabh Gupta , Rongxin Xia , Raphael D. Levine , Sabre Kais

Privacy-preserving state estimation for linear time-invariant dynamical systems with crowd sensors is considered. At any time step, the estimator has access to measurements from a randomly selected sensor from a pool of sensors with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Farhad Farokhi

The simplest and most widely applied method for guaranteeing differential privacy is to add instance-independent noise to a statistic of interest that is scaled to its global sensitivity. However, global sensitivity is a worst-case notion…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Mark Bun , Thomas Steinke

Privacy-preserving average consensus aims to guarantee the privacy of initial states and asymptotic consensus on the exact average of the initial value. In existing work, it is achieved by adding and subtracting variance decaying and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Chengcheng Zhao , Peng Cheng , Xinping Guan

Public access to digital data can turn out to be a cause of undesirable information disclosure. That's why it is vital to somehow protect the data before publishing. There exist two main subclasses of such a task, namely, providing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-11-05 Oleg Chertov , Dan Tavrov

Repeated use of a data sample via adaptively chosen queries can rapidly lead to overfitting, wherein the empirical evaluation of queries on the sample significantly deviates from their mean with respect to the underlying data distribution.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Moshe Shenfeld , Katrina Ligett

We demonstrate high-rate randomized data-encryption through optical fibers using the inherent quantum-measurement noise of coherent states of light. Specifically, we demonstrate 650Mbps data encryption through a 10Gbps data-bearing, in-line…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Corndorf , Chuang Liang , Gerg S. Kanter , Prem Kumar , Horace P. Yuen