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We consider a federated data analytics problem in which a server coordinates the collaborative data analysis of multiple users with privacy concerns and limited communication capability. The commonly adopted compression schemes introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Richeng Jin , Zhonggen Su , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang , Tony Quek , Huaiyu Dai

Differential privacy is a de facto standard for statistical computations over databases that contain private data. The strength of differential privacy lies in a rigorous mathematical definition that guarantees individual privacy and yet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gilles Barthe , Rohit Chadha , Vishal Jagannath , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

The standard definition of differential privacy (DP) ensures that a mechanism's output distribution on adjacent datasets is indistinguishable. However, real-world implementations of DP can, and often do, reveal information through their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zachary Ratliff , Salil Vadhan

Differential privacy is one of the methods to solve the problem of privacy protection in federated learning. Setting the same privacy budget for each round will result in reduced accuracy in training. The existing methods of the adjustment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhiqiang Wang , Xinyue Yu , Qianli Huang , Yongguang Gong

Previous works in the differential privacy literature that allow users to choose their privacy levels typically operate under the heterogeneous differential privacy (HDP) framework with the simplifying assumption that user data and privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

Privacy-preserving data analysis has become a central challenge in modern statistics. At the same time, a long-standing goal in statistics is the development of adaptive procedures -- methods that achieve near-optimal performance across…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

Differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous privacy guarantees on individual's data while also allowing for accurate statistics to be conducted on the overall, sensitive dataset. To design a private system, first private algorithms must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mark Cesar , Ryan Rogers

Concern about how to aggregate sensitive user data without compromising individual privacy is a major barrier to greater availability of data. The model of differential privacy has emerged as an accepted model to release sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Graham Cormode , Tejas Kulkarni , Divesh Srivastava

When training a machine learning model with differential privacy, one sets a privacy budget. This budget represents a maximal privacy violation that any user is willing to face by contributing their data to the training set. We argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Franziska Boenisch , Christopher Mühl , Adam Dziedzic , Roy Rinberg , Nicolas Papernot

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

Machine learning (ML) models can leak information about users, and differential privacy (DP) provides a rigorous way to bound that leakage under a given budget. This DP budget can be regarded as a new type of compute resource in workloads…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Pierre Tholoniat , Kelly Kostopoulou , Mosharaf Chowdhury , Asaf Cidon , Roxana Geambasu , Mathias Lécuyer , Junfeng Yang

Differential Privacy (DP) has become a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. While it provides one of the most rigorous notions of privacy, there are many settings where its applicability is limited. Our main contribution is in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Aman Bansal , Rahul Chunduru , Deepesh Data , Manoj Prabhakaran

In recent years, differential privacy has emerged as the de facto standard for sharing statistics of datasets while limiting the disclosure of private information about the involved individuals. This is achieved by randomly perturbing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Aras Selvi , Huikang Liu , Wolfram Wiesemann

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

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

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) fine-tuning of large pre-trained models -- a recent privacy-preserving approach suitable for solving downstream tasks with sensitive data. Existing work has demonstrated that high accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhiqi Bu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Sheng Zha , George Karypis

Differential Privacy (DP) is a widely adopted technique, valued for its effectiveness in protecting the privacy of task-specific datasets, making it a critical tool for large language models. However, its effectiveness in Multimodal Large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qianshan Wei , Jiaqi Li , Zihan You , Yi Zhan , Kecen Li , Jialin Wu , Xinfeng Li Hengjun Liu , Yi Yu , Bin Cao , Yiwen Xu , Yang Liu , Guilin Qi

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) has become an essential strategy for adapting them to specialized tasks; however, this process introduces significant privacy challenges, as sensitive training data may be inadvertently memorized and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Hao Du , Shang Liu , Yang Cao

In the past decade analysis of big data has proven to be extremely valuable in many contexts. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a state-of-the-art approach which allows statistical computations while protecting each individual user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Björn Bebensee

Differential Privacy (DP) is the current gold-standard for ensuring privacy for statistical queries. Estimation problems under DP constraints appearing in the literature have largely focused on providing equal privacy to all users. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade