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

Given a query result of a big database, why-provenance can be used to calculate the necessary part of this database, consisting of so-called witnesses. If this database consists of personal data, privacy protection has to prevent the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Tanja Auge , Nic Scharlau , Andreas Heuer

With the increasing affordability and availability of patient data, hospitals tend to outsource their data to cloud service providers (CSPs) for the purpose of storage and analytics. However, the concern of data privacy significantly limits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Xiaojie Zhu , Erman Ayday , Roman Vitenberg

Big data is a term used for a very large data sets that have many difficulties in storing and processing the data. Analysis this much amount of data will lead to information loss. The main goal of this paper is to share data in a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jalpesh Vasa , Panthini Modi

Differential privacy is a leading protection setting, focused by design on individual privacy. Many applications, in medical / pharmaceutical domains or social networks, rather posit privacy at a group level, a setting we call integral…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-04 Hisham Husain , Zac Cranko , Richard Nock

We present a framework to statistically audit the privacy guarantee conferred by a differentially private machine learner in practice. While previous works have taken steps toward evaluating privacy loss through poisoning attacks or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Fred Lu , Joseph Munoz , Maya Fuchs , Tyler LeBlond , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Francis Ferraro , Brian Testa

Data quality on categorical attribute is a difficult problem that has not received as much attention as numerical counterpart. Our basic idea is to employ association rule for the purpose of data quality measurement. Strong rule generation…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-16 J. Malar Vizhi , T. Bhuvaneswari

Local differential privacy is a differential privacy paradigm in which individuals first apply a privacy mechanism to their data (often by adding noise) before transmitting the result to a curator. The noise for privacy results in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Yuki Ohnishi , Jordan Awan

In a technical treatment, this article establishes the necessity of transparent privacy for drawing unbiased statistical inference for a wide range of scientific questions. Transparency is a distinct feature enjoyed by differential privacy:…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-20 Ruobin Gong

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms have been deployed in a variety of high-impact social settings (perhaps most notably by the U.S. Census). Since all DP mechanisms involve adding noise to results of statistical queries, they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Lucas Rosenblatt , Julia Stoyanovich , Christopher Musco

Introduction: The amount of data generated by original research is growing exponentially. Publicly releasing them is recommended to comply with the Open Science principles. However, data collected from human participants cannot be released…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Rémy Chapelle , Bruno Falissard

Synthetic data is a promising approach to privacy protection in many contexts. A Bayesian synthesis model, also known as a synthesizer, simulates synthetic values of sensitive variables from their posterior predictive distributions. The…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-18 Ryan Hornby , Jingchen Hu

This paper investigates the privacy-preserving distributed optimization problem, aiming to protect agents' private information from potential attackers during the optimization process. Gradient tracking, an advanced technique for improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

Researchers increasingly use data on social and economic networks to study a range of social science questions, but releasing statistics derived from networks can raise significant privacy concerns. We show how to release network…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-17 Tom A. Rutter , Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian

Preserving the privacy and security of big data in the context of cloud computing, while maintaining a certain level of efficiency of its processing remains to be a subject, open for improvement. One of the most popular applications…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Ş. S. Mağara , C. Yıldırım , F. Yaman , B. Dilekoğlu , F. R. Tutaş , E. Öztürk , K. Kaya , Ö. Taştan , E. Savaş

Data privacy is a central concern in many applications involving ranking from incomplete and noisy pairwise comparisons, such as recommendation systems, educational assessments, and opinion surveys on sensitive topics. In this work, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Yichen Wang

Rankings are widely collected in various real-life scenarios, leading to the leakage of personal information such as users' preferences on videos or news. To protect rankings, existing works mainly develop privacy protection on a single…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-04 Shirong Xu , Will Wei Sun , Guang Cheng

In recent years, with rising concerns for data privacy, Federated Learning has gained prominence, as it enables collaborative training without the aggregation of raw data from participating clients. However, much of the current focus has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Anh V Nguyen , Diego Klabjan

Genetic data are frequently categorical and have complex dependence structures that are not always well understood. For this reason, clustering and classification based on genetic data, while highly relevant, are challenging statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-06-13 Gabriela Bettella Cybis , Marcio Valk , Silvia Regina Costa Lopes

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a popular tool for learning on graphs, but their widespread use raises privacy concerns as graph data can contain personal or sensitive information. Differentially private GNN models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sina Sajadmanesh , Daniel Gatica-Perez