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This paper considers the single-server Private Linear Transformation (PLT) problem with individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, there is a user that wishes to obtain $L$ independent linear combinations of a $D$-subset of messages…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Nahid Esmati , Alex Sprintson

Protecting privacy is essential when sharing data, particularly in the case of an online radicalization dataset that may contain personal information. In this paper, we explore the balance between preserving data usefulness and ensuring…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Arij Riabi , Menel Mahamdi , Virginie Mouilleron , Djamé Seddah

Private and public organizations regularly collect and analyze digitalized data about their associates, volunteers, clients, etc. However, because most personal data are sensitive, there is a key challenge in designing privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Héber H. Arcolezi

Access to diverse, high-quality datasets is crucial for machine learning model performance, yet data sharing remains limited by privacy concerns and competitive interests, particularly in regulated domains like healthcare. This dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Keren Fuentes , Mimee Xu , Irene Chen

The main aim of Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) is to protect the privacy and provide security to the data used in building Machine Learning models. There are various techniques in PPML such as Secure Multi-Party Computation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Syed Imtiaz Ahamed , Vadlamani Ravi

Privacy Preserving Data Mining (PPDM) addresses the problem of developing accurate models about aggregated data without access to precise information in individual data record. A widely studied \emph{perturbation-based PPDM} approach…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-04-06 Yaping Li , Minghua Chen , Qiwei Li , Wei Zhang

The identity problem today is a data-sharing problem. Today the fixed attributes approach adopted by the consumer identity management industry provides only limited information about an individual, and therefore is of limited value to the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Thomas Hardjono , Sandy Pentland

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning (PPFL) enables multiple clients to collaboratively train models by submitting secreted model updates. Nonetheless, PPFL is vulnerable to data poisoning attacks due to its distributed training paradigm…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Hongliang Zhang , Jiguo Yu , Fenghua Xu , Chunqiang Hu , Yongzhao Zhang , Xiaofen Wang , Zhongyuan Yu , Xiaosong Zhang

Federated learning (FL) enhanced by differential privacy has emerged as a popular approach to better safeguard the privacy of client-side data by protecting clients' contributions during the training process. Existing solutions typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Junxu Liu , Jian Lou , Li Xiong , Jinfei Liu , Xiaofeng Meng

Data Linkage is an important step that can provide valuable insights for evidence-based decision making, especially for crucial events. Performing sensible queries across heterogeneous databases containing millions of records is a complex…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-10-09 Mohammed Gollapalli

We study the problem of intermittent private information retrieval with multiple servers, in which a user consecutively requests one of K messages from N replicated databases such that part of requests need to be protected while others do…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Fangwei Ye , Salim El Rouayheb

In theory, the probabilistic linkage method provides two distinct advantages over non-probabilistic methods, including minimal rates of linkage error and accurate measures of these rates for data users. However, implementations can fall…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-06 Abel Dasylva , Arthur Goussanou , David Ajavon , Hanan Abousaleh

Many real-world interconnections among entities can be characterized as graphs. Collecting local graph information with balanced privacy and data utility has garnered notable interest recently. This paper delves into the problem of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Conggai Li , Wei Ni , Ming Ding , Youyang Qu , Jianjun Chen , David Smith , Wenjie Zhang , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

Blockchain technology has experienced substantial growth in recent years, yet the diversity of blockchain applications has been limited. Blockchain provides many desirable features for applications, including being append-only, immutable,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Collin Connors , Dilip Sarkar

We study the problem of group linkage: linking records that refer to entities in the same group. Applications for group linkage include finding businesses in the same chain, finding conference attendees from the same affiliation, finding…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Pei Li , Xin Luna Dong , Songtao Guo , Andrea Maurino , Divesh Srivastava

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Deep neural networks have become a primary tool for solving problems in many fields. They are also used for addressing information retrieval problems and show strong performance in several tasks. Training these models requires large,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Mostafa Dehghani , Hosein Azarbonyad , Jaap Kamps , Maarten de Rijke

Mining Software Repositories (MSRs) is an evidence-based methodology that cross-links data to uncover actionable information about software systems. Empirical studies in software engineering often leverage MSR techniques as they allow…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Melina Vidoni , Nicolás E. Díaz Ferreyra

Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs) pose significant individual-level privacy risks by linking fragmented multimodal data to identifiable individuals through hierarchical chain-of-thought reasoning. However, existing privacy benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Xiongtao Sun , Hui Li , Jiaming Zhang , Yujie Yang , Kaili Liu , Ruxin Feng , Wen Jun Tan , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

In this paper, we develop compositional methods for formally verifying differential privacy for algorithms whose analysis goes beyond the composition theorem. Our methods are based on the observation that differential privacy has deep…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Pierre-Yves Strub