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We study the problem of adaptive privacy budgeting under generalized differential privacy. Consider the setting where each user $i\in [n]$ holds a tuple $x_i\in U:=U_1\times \dotsb \times U_T$, where $x_i(l)\in U_l$ represents the $l$-th…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yuting Liang , Ke Yi

Differential privacy (DP) is widely employed in machine learning to protect confidential or sensitive training data from being revealed. As data owners gain greater control over their data due to personal data ownership, they are more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiao Tian , Jue Fan , Rachael Hwee Ling Sim , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Composition is one of the most important properties of differential privacy (DP), as it allows algorithm designers to build complex private algorithms from DP primitives. We consider precise composition bounds of the overall privacy loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Jinshuo Dong , David Durfee , Ryan Rogers

Differentially private (DP) machine learning has recently become popular. The privacy loss of DP algorithms is commonly reported using $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-DP. In this paper, we propose a numerical accountant for evaluating the privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-28 Antti Koskela , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Honkela

A common problem in private data analysis is the partition selection problem, where each user holds a set of partitions (e.g. keys in a GROUP BY operation) from a possibly unbounded set. The challenge here is in maximizing the set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Charlie Harrison , Pasin Manurangsi

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has become the de facto standard for privacy-preserving data collection in large-scale systems, in particular for the purpose of estimating frequencies. However, the current research landscape lacks a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ramon G. Gonze , Natasha Fernandes , Heber H. Arcolezi , Catuscia Palamidessi , Nataliia Bielova

Aggregating statistics over geographical regions is important for many applications, such as analyzing income, election results, and disease spread. However, the sensitive nature of this data necessitates strong privacy protections to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Aman Priyanshu , Yash Maurya , Suriya Ganesh , Vy Tran

In applications involving sensitive data, such as finance and healthcare, the necessity for preserving data privacy can be a significant barrier to machine learning model development. Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as one canonical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Zachary Izzo , Jinsung Yoon , Sercan O. Arik , James Zou

Differential Privacy (DP) is a well-established framework to quantify privacy loss incurred by any algorithm. Traditional formulations impose a uniform privacy requirement for all users, which is often inconsistent with real-world scenarios…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Konstantin Miagkov , Thomas A. Courtade

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) has attracted extensive attention as it can explicitly handle system constraints and achieve optimal control in a decentralized manner. However, the deployment of DMPC strategies generally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Kaixiang Zhang , Yongqiang Wang , Ziyou Song , Zhaojian Li

Privacy-preserving genomic data sharing is prominent to increase the pace of genomic research, and hence to pave the way towards personalized genomic medicine. In this paper, we introduce ($\epsilon , T$)-dependent local differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Emre Yilmaz , Tianxi Ji , Erman Ayday , Pan Li

Privacy Preserving Data Mining(PPDM) is an ongoing research area aimed at bridging the gap between the collaborative data mining and data confidentiality There are many different approaches which have been adopted for PPDM, of them the rule…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-05-09 P. Cynthia Selvi , A. R. Mohammed Shanavas

A privacy-utility tradeoff is developed for an arbitrary set of finite-alphabet source distributions. Privacy is quantified using differential privacy (DP), and utility is quantified using expected Hamming distortion maximized over the set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Kousha Kalantari , Lalitha Sankar , Anand Sarwate

Differential privacy is the standard method for privacy-preserving data analysis. The importance of having strong guarantees on the reliability of implementations of differentially private algorithms is widely recognized and has sparked…

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

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

Emerging systems such as smart grids or intelligent transportation systems often require end-user applications to continuously send information to external data aggregators performing monitoring or control tasks. This can result in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-09-12 Jerome Le Ny , George J. Pappas

Iterative algorithms, like gradient descent, are common tools for solving a variety of problems, such as model fitting. For this reason, there is interest in creating differentially private versions of them. However, their conversion to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Jaewoo Lee , Daniel Kifer

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

Extended differential privacy, a generalization of standard differential privacy (DP) using a general metric, has been widely studied to provide rigorous privacy guarantees while keeping high utility. However, existing works on extended DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Natasha Fernandes , Yusuke Kawamoto , Takao Murakami