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Estimating causal effects from randomized experiments is only possible if participants are willing to disclose their potentially sensitive responses. Differential privacy, a widely used framework for ensuring an algorithms privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni , Jean Pouget-Abadie

Differential privacy (DP) has the potential to enable privacy-preserving analysis on sensitive data, but requires analysts to judiciously spend a limited ``privacy loss budget'' $\epsilon$ across queries. Analysts conducting exploratory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Hyeok Kim , Yifan Wu , Ali Sarvghad , Narges Mahyar , Gerome Miklau , Jessica Hullman

In this paper we propose new methods to statistically assess $f$-Differential Privacy ($f$-DP), a recent refinement of differential privacy (DP) that remedies certain weaknesses of standard DP (including tightness under algorithmic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Önder Askin , Holger Dette , Martin Dunsche , Tim Kutta , Yun Lu , Yu Wei , Vassilis Zikas

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

As a prevailing collaborative filtering method for recommendation systems, one-bit matrix completion requires data collected by users to provide personalized service. Due to insidious attacks and unexpected inference, the release of users'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Zhengpin Li , Zheng Wei , Zengfeng Huang , Xiaojun Mao , Jian Wang

With the rapid development of the Internet of things (IoT), more and more IoT devices are connected and communicate frequently. In this background, the traditional centralized security architecture of IoT will be limited in terms of data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Ziqing Guo , Hua Zhang , Xin Zhang , Zhengping Jin , Qiaoyan Wen

Data marketplaces (DMs) promote the benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart cities. To facilitate the easy exchanges of real-time IoT data streams between device owners and third-party applications, it is required to provide…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Ronghua Xu , Yu Chen

This paper investigates the privacy funnel, a privacy-utility tradeoff problem in which mutual information quantifies both privacy and utility. The objective is to maximize utility while adhering to a specified privacy budget. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Mohammad Amin Zarrabian , Parastoo Sadeghi

Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as a de facto standard privacy notion for a wide range of applications. Since the meaning of data utility in different applications may vastly differ, a key challenge is to find the optimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Meisam Mohammady , Shangyu Xie , Yuan Hong , Mengyuan Zhang , Lingyu Wang , Makan Pourzandi , Mourad Debbabi

Today, Internet of Things (IoT) technology is being increasingly popular which is applied in a wide range of industry sectors such as healthcare, transportation and some critical infrastructures. With the widespread applications of IoT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Jingwei Liu , Ailian Ren , Lihuan Zhang , Rong Sun , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

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

Differential privacy (DP) is a key technique for protecting sensitive patient data in medical deep learning (DL). As clinical models grow more data-dependent, balancing privacy with utility and fairness has become a critical challenge. This…

Differential Privacy (DP) is a probabilistic framework that protects privacy while preserving data utility. To protect the privacy of the individuals in the dataset, DP requires adding a precise amount of noise to a statistic of interest;…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-05 Yu-Wei Chen , Pranav Sanghi , Jordan Awan

Blockchain has received a widespread attention because of its decentralized, tamper-proof, and transparent nature. Blockchain works over the principle of distributed, secured, and shared ledger, which is used to record, and track data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Muneeb Ul Hassan , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Jinjun Chen

The randomized power method has gained significant interest due to its simplicity and efficient handling of large-scale spectral analysis and recommendation tasks. However, its application to large datasets containing personal information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Julien Nicolas , César Sabater , Mohamed Maouche , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Mark Coates

We describe a new algorithm for answering a given set of range queries under $\epsilon$-differential privacy which often achieves substantially lower error than competing methods. Our algorithm satisfies differential privacy by adding noise…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Chao Li , Michael Hay , Gerome Miklau , Yue Wang

The integration of Differential Privacy (DP) with diffusion models (DMs) presents a promising yet challenging frontier, particularly due to the substantial memorization capabilities of DMs that pose significant privacy risks. Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yu-Lin Tsai , Yizhe Li , Zekai Chen , Po-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Xuebin Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

In this paper, we propose a trust-centric privacy-preserving blockchain for dynamic spectrum access in IoT networks. To be specific, we propose a trust evaluation mechanism to evaluate the trustworthiness of sensing nodes and design a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Jingwei Ye , Xin Kang , Ying-Chang Liang , Sumei Sun

In this work, we leverage advances in decentralized identifiers and permissioned blockchains to build a flexible user authentication and authorization mechanism that offers enhanced privacy, achieves fast revocation, and supports…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Nikos Fotiou , Iakovos Pittaras , Vasilios A. Siris , George C. Polyzos

Privacy-preservation policies are guidelines formulated to protect data providers private data. Previous privacy-preservation methodologies have addressed privacy in which data are permanently stored in repositories and disconnected from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Michael Mireku Kwakye