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Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By constructing random local aggregators, we propose a framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hanshen Xiao , Yu Ye , Srinivas Devadas

We study person-level differentially private (DP) mean estimation in the case where each person holds multiple samples. DP here requires the usual notion of distributional stability when $\textit{all}$ of a person's datapoints can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sushant Agarwal , Gautam Kamath , Mahbod Majid , Argyris Mouzakis , Rose Silver , Jonathan Ullman

Local differential privacy (LDP), which enables an untrusted server to collect aggregated statistics from distributed users while protecting the privacy of those users, has been widely deployed in practice. However, LDP protocols for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Xinyue Sun , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Jiawei Duan , Tianyu Wo , Jie Xu , Renyu Yang

Time series have numerous applications in finance, healthcare, IoT, and smart city. In many of these applications, time series typically contain personal data, so privacy infringement may occur if they are released directly to the public.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Yulian Mao , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Qi Wang , Kai Huang

Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) extends the local differential privacy (LDP) framework to metric spaces, enabling more nuanced privacy protection for data such as geo-locations. However, existing mDP optimization methods, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ruiyao Liu , Chenxi Qiu

Linear sketches are fundamental tools in data stream analytics. They are notable for supporting both approximate frequency queries and heavy hitter detection with bounded trade-offs for error and memory. Importantly, on streams that contain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Rayne Holland

Local differential privacy (LDP) gives a strong privacy guarantee to be used in a distributed setting like federated learning (FL). LDP mechanisms in FL protect a client's gradient by randomizing it on the client; however, how can we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Marin Matsumoto , Tsubasa Takahashi , Seng Pei Liew , Masato Oguchi

This paper identifies that a group of latest locally-differentially-private (LDP) algorithms for frequency estimation, including all the Hadamard-matrix-based algorithms, are equivalent to the private Count-Mean Sketch (CMS) algorithm with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mingen Pan

In Federated Learning (FL), multiple clients jointly train a machine learning model by sharing gradient information, instead of raw data, with a server over multiple rounds. To address the possibility of information leakage in spite of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yashwant Krishna Pagoti , Arunesh Sinha , Shamik Sural

Advanced adversarial attacks such as membership inference and model memorization can make federated learning (FL) vulnerable and potentially leak sensitive private data. Local differentially private (LDP) approaches are gaining more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler , Peter Bertok , Ibrahim Khalil

We introduce the linear-transformation model, a distributed model of differentially private data analysis. Clients have access to a trusted platform capable of applying a public matrix to their inputs. Such computations can be securely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jakob Burkhardt , Hannah Keller , Claudio Orlandi , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We present a privacy-preserving telemetry aggregation scheme. Our underlying frequency estimation routine works within the framework of differential privacy. The design philosophy follows a client-server architecture. Furthermore, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Kenneth Odoh

For protecting users' private data, local differential privacy (LDP) has been leveraged to provide the privacy-preserving range query, thus supporting further statistical analysis. However, existing LDP-based range query approaches are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Linkang Du , Zhikun Zhang , Shaojie Bai , Changchang Liu , Shouling Ji , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

Fine-tuning large language models on downstream tasks is crucial for realizing their cross-domain potential but often relies on sensitive data, raising privacy concerns. Differential privacy (DP) offers rigorous privacy guarantees and has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Lele Zheng , Xiang Wang , Tao Zhang , Yang Cao , Ke Cheng , Yulong Shen

In data stream applications, one of the critical issues is to estimate the frequency of each item in the specific multiset. The multiset means that each item in this set can appear multiple times. The data streams in many applications are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Ning Li

Local differential privacy (LDP), which perturbs the data of each user locally and only sends the noisy version of her information to the aggregator, is a popular privacy-preserving data collection mechanism. In LDP, the data collector…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Jiawei Duan , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Periodic patterns are fundamental cues in multimedia signals and systems, including repetitive motion in video (e.g., gait cycles), rhythmic and pitch-related structure in audio, and recurring textures in image sequences. When such…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yaxuan Wang , Tianxin Li , Enji Liang , Yue Fu , Yanran Wang

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) addresses significant privacy concerns in sensitive data collection. In this work, we focus on numerical data collection under LDP, targeting a significant gap in the literature: existing LDP mechanisms are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Incheol Baek , Yon Dohn Chung

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has been widely used for solving optimization problems with privacy guarantees in machine learning and statistics. Despite this, a systematic non-asymptotic convergence analysis…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-10 Enze Shi , Jinhan Xie , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong , Xuming He

Numerical data with bounded domains is a common data type in personal devices, such as wearable sensors. While the collection of such data is essential for third-party platforms, it raises significant privacy concerns. Local differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ye Zheng , Sumita Mishra , Yidan Hu