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Differential privacy (DP) ensures that training a machine learning model does not leak private data. In practice, we may have access to auxiliary public data that is free of privacy concerns. In this work, we assume access to a given amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Andrew Lowy , Zeman Li , Tianjian Huang , Meisam Razaviyayn

In this paper, we study the problem of estimating smooth Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) in the Non-interactive Local Differential Privacy (NLDP) model. Different from its classical setting, our model allows the server to access some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Di Wang , Lijie Hu , Huanyu Zhang , Marco Gaboardi , Jinhui Xu

We study the problem of estimating non-linear functionals of discrete distributions in the context of local differential privacy. The initial data $x_1,\ldots,x_n \in [K]$ are supposed i.i.d. and distributed according to an unknown discrete…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Cristina Butucea , Yann Issartel

Collecting and analyzing massive data generated from smart devices have become increasingly pervasive in crowdsensing, which are the building blocks for data-driven decision-making. However, extensive statistics and analysis of such data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Teng Wang , Xuefeng Zhang , Jingyu Feng , Xinyu Yang

We consider the setting of publishing data without leaking sensitive information. We do so in the framework of Robust Local Differential Privacy (RLDP). This ensures privacy for all distributions of the data in an uncertainty set. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jasper Goseling , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg

We develop plug-in estimators for locally differentially private semi-parametric estimation via spline wavelets. The approach leads to optimal rates of convergence for a large class of estimation problems that are characterized by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Thibault Randrianarisoa , Lukas Steinberger , Botond Szabó

Local differential privacy is a differential privacy paradigm in which individuals first apply a privacy mechanism to their data (often by adding noise) before transmitting the result to a curator. The noise for privacy results in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Yuki Ohnishi , Jordan Awan

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

Although robust learning and local differential privacy are both widely studied fields of research, combining the two settings is just starting to be explored. We consider the problem of estimating a discrete distribution in total variation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Julien Chhor , Flore Sentenac

We study the classic problem of prediction with expert advice under the constraint of local differential privacy (LDP). In this context, we first show that a classical algorithm naturally satisfies LDP and then design two new algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ben Jacobsen , Kassem Fawaz

We propose and analyze algorithms to solve a range of learning tasks under user-level differential privacy constraints. Rather than guaranteeing only the privacy of individual samples, user-level DP protects a user's entire contribution ($m…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Daniel Levy , Ziteng Sun , Kareem Amin , Satyen Kale , Alex Kulesza , Mehryar Mohri , Ananda Theertha Suresh

We show a new lower bound on the sample complexity of $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithms that accurately answer statistical queries on high-dimensional databases. The novelty of our bound is that it depends optimally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

With local differential privacy (LDP), users can privatize their data and thus guarantee privacy properties before transmitting it to the server (a.k.a. the aggregator). One primary objective of LDP is frequency (or histogram) estimation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Héber H. Arcolezi , Jean-François Couchot , Bechara Al Bouna , Xiaokui Xiao

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong privacy protection, especially in settings in which the server collecting the data is untrusted. However, designing LDP mechanisms that achieve an optimal trade-off between privacy, utility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs

In the recent decades, the advance of information technology and abundant personal data facilitate the application of algorithmic personalized pricing. However, this leads to the growing concern of potential violation of privacy due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-13 Xi Chen , Sentao Miao , Yining Wang

We study person-level differentially private (DP) mean estimation in the case where each person holds multiple samples. DP here requires the usual notion of distributional stability when $\textit{all}$ of a person's datapoints can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sushant Agarwal , Gautam Kamath , Mahbod Majid , Argyris Mouzakis , Rose Silver , Jonathan Ullman

Working under a model of privacy in which data remains private even from the statistician, we study the tradeoff between privacy guarantees and the risk of the resulting statistical estimators. We develop private versions of classical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-16 John Duchi , Martin Wainwright , Michael Jordan

Local differential privacy (LDP) enables private data sharing and analytics without the need for a trusted data collector. Error-optimal primitives (for, e.g., estimating means and item frequencies) under LDP have been well studied. For…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zhuolun Xiang , Bolin Ding , Xi He , Jingren Zhou

We revisit the problem of linear regression under a differential privacy constraint. By consolidating existing pieces in the literature, we clarify the correct dependence of the feature, label and coefficient domains in the optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Yu-Xiang Wang

We study the problem of estimating a functional $\theta(\mathbb P)$ of an unknown probability distribution $\mathbb P \in\mathcal P$ in which the original iid sample $X_1,\dots, X_n$ is kept private even from the statistician via an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-05-29 Angelika Rohde , Lukas Steinberger