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We design new differentially private algorithms for the Euclidean k-means problem, both in the centralized model and in the local model of differential privacy. In both models, our algorithms achieve significantly improved error guarantees…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Haim Kaplan , Uri Stemmer

Differentially private (DP) decentralized Federated Learning (FL) allows local users to collaborate without sharing their data with a central server. However, accurately quantifying the privacy budget of private FL algorithms is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Buxin Su , Chendi Wang , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Privacy issues of recommender systems have become a hot topic for the society as such systems are appearing in every corner of our life. In contrast to the fact that many secure multi-party computation protocols have been proposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Jun Wang , Qiang Tang

In this paper, we present a framework based on differential privacy (DP) for querying electric power measurements to detect system anomalies or bad data. Our DP approach conceals consumption and system matrix data, while simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Nikhil Ravi , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert , Parth Pradhan

Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients", open a set of at most $k$ facilities to minimize the average distance from the clients to these facilities. This is just the well-studied $k$-median…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Anupam Gupta , Katrina Ligett , Frank McSherry , Aaron Roth , Kunal Talwar

In this note, we consider the problem of differentially privately (DP) computing an anonymized histogram, which is defined as the multiset of counts of the input dataset (without bucket labels). In the low-privacy regime $\epsilon \geq 1$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Pasin Manurangsi

The need for a privacy management layer in today's systems started to manifest with the emergence of new systems for privacy-preserving analytics and privacy compliance. As a result, many independent efforts have emerged that try to provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Nicolas Küchler , Emanuel Opel , Hidde Lycklama , Alexander Viand , Anwar Hithnawi

Differential privacy offers formal quantitative guarantees for algorithms over datasets, but it assumes attackers that know and can influence all but one record in the database. This assumption often vastly overapproximates the attackers'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Damien Desfontaines , Esfandiar Mohammadi , Elisabeth Krahmer , David Basin

We review the use of differential privacy (DP) for privacy protection in machine learning (ML). We show that, driven by the aim of preserving the accuracy of the learned models, DP-based ML implementations are so loose that they do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Alberto Blanco-Justicia , David Sanchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Krishnamurty Muralidhar

Training machine learning models with differential privacy (DP) limits an adversary's ability to infer sensitive information about the training data. It can be interpreted as a bound on adversary's capability to distinguish two adjacent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gauri Pradhan , Joonas Jälkö , Santiago Zanella-Béguelin , Antti Honkela

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

Differential privacy (DP) has achieved remarkable results in the field of privacy-preserving machine learning. However, existing DP frameworks do not satisfy all the conditions for becoming metrics, which prevents them from deriving better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Chengyi Yang , Jiayin Qi , Aimin Zhou

Differential privacy (DP) is a prominent method for protecting information about individuals during data analysis. Training neural networks with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) influences the model's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lea Demelius , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

The rise of connected personal devices together with privacy concerns call for machine learning algorithms capable of leveraging the data of a large number of agents to learn personalized models under strong privacy requirements. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Aurélien Bellet , Rachid Guerraoui , Mahsa Taziki , Marc Tommasi

The literature on differential privacy almost invariably assumes that the data to be analyzed are fully observed. In most practical applications this is an unrealistic assumption. A popular strategy to address this problem is imputation, in…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Soumojit Das , Jorg Drechsler , Keith Merrill , Shawn Merrill

Differential Privacy protects individuals' data when statistical queries are published from aggregated databases: applying "obfuscating" mechanisms to the query results makes the released information less specific but, unavoidably, also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Natasha Fernandes , Annabelle McIver , Carroll Morgan

We investigate the problems of identity and closeness testing over a discrete population from random samples. Our goal is to develop efficient testers while guaranteeing Differential Privacy to the individuals of the population. We describe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Ilias Diakonikolas , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Ranking aggregation is commonly adopted in cooperative decision-making to assist in combining multiple rankings into a single representative. To protect the actual ranking of each individual, some privacy-preserving strategies, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Baobao Song , Qiujun Lan , Yang Li , Gang Li

Preserving privacy in contemporary NLP models allows us to work with sensitive data, but unfortunately comes at a price. We know that stricter privacy guarantees in differentially-private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) generally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Manuel Senge , Timour Igamberdiev , Ivan Habernal

Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated definition of privacy which has gained significant attention over the past few years. Differentially private solutions enforce privacy by adding random noise to a function computed over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu