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The problem of optimal node density for ad hoc sensor networks deployed for making inferences about two dimensional correlated random fields is considered. Using a symmetric first order conditional autoregressive Gauss-Markov random field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Youngchul Sung , H. Vincent Poor , Heejung Yu

Motivation: Researchers need a rich trove of genomic datasets that they can leverage to gain a better understanding of the genetic basis of the human genome and identify associations between phenotypes and specific parts of DNA. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Nour Almadhoun Alserr , Gulce Kale , Onur Mutlu , Oznur Tastan , Erman Ayday

In recent years, differential privacy has been adopted by tech-companies and governmental agencies as the standard for measuring privacy in algorithms. In this article, we study differential privacy in Bayesian posterior sampling settings.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Shenggang Hu , Louis Aslett , Hongsheng Dai , Murray Pollock , Gareth O. Roberts

In this paper, we study the fundamental limits of obfuscation in terms of privacy-distortion tradeoffs for linear Gaussian dynamical systems via an information-theoretic approach. Particularly, we obtain analytical formulas that capture the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Song Fang , Quanyan Zhu

Differential privacy is known to protect against threats to validity incurred due to adaptive, or exploratory, data analysis -- even when the analyst adversarially searches for a statistical estimate that diverges from the true value of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Elbert Du , Cynthia Dwork

A central problem in releasing aggregate information about sensitive data is to do so accurately while providing a privacy guarantee on the output. Recent work focuses on the class of linear queries, which include basic counting queries,…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Graham Cormode , Cecilia M. Procopiuc , Divesh Srivastava , Grigory Yaroslavtsev

Even though measurement results obtained in the real world are generally both noisy and continuous, quantum measurement theory tends to emphasize the ideal limit of perfect precision and quantized measurement results. In this article, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Holger F. Hofmann

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

With the rapidly increasing ability to collect and analyze personal data, data privacy becomes an emerging concern. In this work, we develop a new statistical notion of local privacy to protect each categorical data that will be collected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Ganghua Wang , Jie Ding

Recent advancements in generative AI have made it possible to create synthetic datasets that can be as accurate as real-world data for training AI models, powering statistical insights, and fostering collaboration with sensitive datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Amy Steier , Lipika Ramaswamy , Andre Manoel , Alexa Haushalter

This paper investigates the issue of privacy in a learning scenario where users share knowledge for a recommendation task. Our study contributes to the growing body of research on privacy-preserving machine learning and underscores the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Alexander Galozy , Sadi Alawadi , Victor Kebande , Sławomir Nowaczyk

High-quality, distributed quantum entanglement is the distinctive resource for quantum communication and forms the foundation for the unequalled level of security that can be assured in quantum key distribution. While the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Philipp Sohr , Sebastian Ecker , Lukas Bulla , Martin Bohmann , Rupert Ursin

This paper investigates properties of noisy quantum information channels. We define a new quantity called {\em coherent information} which measures the amount of quantum information conveyed in the noisy channel. This quantity can never be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Benjamin Schumacher , M. A. Nielsen

Preserving privacy of continuous and/or high-dimensional data such as images, videos and audios, can be challenging with syntactic anonymization methods which are designed for discrete attributes. Differential privacy, which provides a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Jihun Hamm

This paper explores the implications of guaranteeing privacy by imposing a lower bound on the information density between the private and the public data. We introduce a novel and operationally meaningful privacy measure called pointwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sara Saeidian , Leonhard Grosse , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund , Tobias J. Oechtering

Ensuring privacy of sensitive data is essential in many contexts, such as healthcare data, banks, e-commerce, wireless sensor networks, and social networks. It is common that different entities coordinate or want to rely on a third party to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana , George Athanasiou , Martin Jakobsson , Carlo Fischione , John S. Baras

While previous works on privacy-preserving serial data publishing consider the scenario where sensitive values may persist over multiple data releases, we find that no previous work has sufficient protection provided for sensitive values…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-03-05 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Jia Liu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu

Quantum Machine Learning (QML) is becoming increasingly prevalent due to its potential to enhance classical machine learning (ML) tasks, such as classification. Although quantum noise is often viewed as a major challenge in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Hoang M. Ngo , Tre' R. Jeter , Incheol Shin , Wanli Xing , Tamer Kahveci , My T. Thai

The Quantum Fisher Information (QFI) metric governs a fundamental duality: it quantifies both how precisely a parameter can be estimated (metrology) and how distinguishable two quantum states are (privacy). We exploit this duality to…

Many differentially private (DP) data release systems either output DP synthetic data and leave analysts to perform inference as usual, which can lead to severe miscalibration, or output a DP point estimate without a principled way to do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Amir Asiaee , Samhita Pal