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Network data are ubiquitous in our daily life, containing rich but often sensitive information. In this paper, we expand the current static analysis of privatised networks to a dynamic framework by considering a sequence of networks with…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Mengchu Li , Thomas B. Berrett , Yi Yu

We introduce the problem of releasing sensitive data under differential privacy when the privacy level is subject to change over time. Existing work assumes that privacy level is determined by the system designer as a fixed value before…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Fragkiskos Koufogiannis , Shuo Han , George J. Pappas

Privacy-preserving data release mechanisms aim to simultaneously minimize information-leakage with respect to sensitive data and distortion with respect to useful data. Dependencies between sensitive and useful data results in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Ye Wang , Yuksel Ozan Basciftci , Prakash Ishwar

Differential Privacy (DP) formalizes privacy in mathematical terms and provides a robust concept for privacy protection. DIfferentially Private Data Synthesis (DIPS) techniques produce and release synthetic individual-level data in the DP…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-22 Claire McKay Bowen , Fang Liu , Binyue Su

Differential privacy (DP) and local differential privacy (LPD) are frameworks to protect sensitive information in data collections. They are both based on obfuscation. In DP the noise is added to the result of queries on the dataset,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Natasha Fernandes , Kacem Lefki , Catuscia Palamidessi

Trajectory data, which capture the movement patterns of people and vehicles over time and space, are crucial for applications like traffic optimization and urban planning. However, issues such as noise and incompleteness often compromise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Zhihao Zeng , Ziquan Fang , Wei Shao , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao

As the modern world becomes increasingly digitized and interconnected, distributed signal processing has proven to be effective in processing its large volume of data. However, a main challenge limiting the broad use of distributed signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-23 Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

In this paper, we present a notion of differential privacy (DP) for data that comes from different classes. Here, the class-membership is private information that needs to be protected. The proposed method is an output perturbation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Raksha Ramakrishna , Anna Scaglione , Tong Wu , Nikhil Ravi , Sean Peisert

Differential Privacy (DP) considers a scenario in which an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database. This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy threat faced by an individual in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

The shuffle model of DP (Differential Privacy) provides high utility by introducing a shuffler that randomly shuffles noisy data sent from users. However, recent studies show that existing shuffle protocols suffer from the following two…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Takao Murakami , Yuichi Sei , Reo Eriguchi

For systems whose states implicate sensitive information, their privacy is of great concern. While notions like differential privacy have been successfully introduced to dynamical systems, it is still unclear how a system's privacy can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Le Liu , Yu Kawano , Ming Cao

The development of Internet technology enables an analysis on the whole population rather than a certain number of samples, and leads to increasing requirement for privacy protection. Local differential privacy (LDP) is an effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-06 She Sun , Li Zhou , Xiaoran Yan

Differential privacy (DP) is a compelling privacy definition that explains the privacy-utility tradeoff via formal, provable guarantees. Inspired by recent progress toward general-purpose data release algorithms, we propose a private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Differential privacy (DP) is getting attention as a privacy definition when publishing statistics of a dataset. This paper focuses on the limitation that DP inevitably causes two-sided error, which is not desirable for epidemic analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Shun Takagi , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Differential privacy (DP) is a privacy-preserving paradigm that protects the training data when training deep learning models. Critically, the performance of models is determined by the training hyperparameters, especially those of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiqi Bu , Ruixuan Liu

We explore the trade-off between privacy and statistical utility in private two-sample testing under local differential privacy (LDP) for both multinomial and continuous data. We begin by addressing the multinomial case, where we introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Jongmin Mun , Seungwoo Kwak , Ilmun Kim

Releasing useful information from datasets with hierarchical structures while preserving individual privacy presents a significant challenge. Standard privacy-preserving mechanisms, and in particular Differential Privacy, often require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Joonhyuk Ko , Juba Ziani , Ferdinando Fioretto

An accountable algorithmic transparency report (ATR) should ideally investigate the (a) transparency of the underlying algorithm, and (b) fairness of the algorithmic decisions, and at the same time preserve data subjects' privacy. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Chien-Lun Chen , Leana Golubchik , Ranjan Pal

Although distribution grid customers are obliged to share their consumption data with distribution system operators (DSOs), a possible leakage of this data is often disregarded in operational routines of DSOs. This paper introduces a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-08-21 Vladimir Dvorkin , Ferdinando Fioretto , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Pierre Pinson , Jalal Kazempour

In the arena of privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has outstripped the objective perturbation mechanism in popularity and interest. Though unrivaled in versatility, DP-SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Rachel Redberg , Antti Koskela , Yu-Xiang Wang