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Safeguarding privacy in machine learning is highly desirable, especially in collaborative studies across many organizations. Privacy-preserving distributed machine learning (based on cryptography) is popular to solve the problem. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Wei Xie , Yang Wang , Steven M. Boker , Donald E. Brown

We present efficient and practical algorithms for a large, distributed system of processors to achieve reliable computations in a secure manner. Specifically, we address the problem of computing a general function of several private inputs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Donald Rozinak Beaver

In two-party secret sharing scheme, values are typically encoded as unsigned integers $\mathsf{uint}(x)$, whereas real-world applications often require computations on signed real numbers $\mathsf{Real}(x)$. To enable secure evaluation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hao Guo , Zhaoqian Liu , Liqiang Peng , Shuaishuai Li , Ximing Fu , Weiran Liu , Lin Qu

In this paper, we address the problem of secure distributed computation in scenarios where user data is not uniformly distributed, extending existing frameworks that assume uniformity, an assumption that is challenging to enforce in data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Saar Tarnopolsky , Zirui , Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv , Alejandro Cohen

This paper focuses on the privacy paradigm of providing access to researchers to remotely carry out analyses on sensitive data stored behind firewalls. We address the situation where the analysis demands data from multiple physically…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-20 Joshua Snoke , Timothy R. Brick , Aleksandra Slavkovic , Michael D. Hunter

Large-scale collection of contextual information is often essential in order to gather statistics, train machine learning models, and extract knowledge from data. The ability to do so in a {\em privacy-preserving} way -- i.e., without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-01-07 Luca Melis , George Danezis , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Ratio statistics--such as relative risk and odds ratios--play a central role in hypothesis testing, model evaluation, and decision-making across many areas of machine learning, including causal inference and fairness analysis. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-28 Tomer Shoham , Katrina Ligettt

We study the complexity of securely evaluating arithmetic circuits over finite rings. This question is motivated by natural secure computation tasks. Focusing mainly on the case of two-party protocols with security against malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-11-08 Yuval Ishai , Manoj Prabhakaran , Amit Sahai

Access to diverse, high-quality datasets is crucial for machine learning model performance, yet data sharing remains limited by privacy concerns and competitive interests, particularly in regulated domains like healthcare. This dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Keren Fuentes , Mimee Xu , Irene Chen

Many privacy mechanisms reveal high-level information about a data distribution through noisy measurements. It is common to use this information to estimate the answers to new queries. In this work, we provide an approach to solve this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Ryan McKenna , Daniel Sheldon , Gerome Miklau

Differential privacy (DP) is widely employed to provide privacy protection for individuals by limiting information leakage from the aggregated data. Two well-known models of DP are the central model and the local model. The former requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yucheng Fu , Tianhao Wang

Motivated by the applications of secure multiparty computation as a privacy-protecting data analysis tool, and identifying oblivious transfer as one of its main practical enablers, we propose a practical realization of randomized quantum…

Over the last decade, PageRank has gained importance in a wide range of applications and domains, ever since it first proved to be effective in determining node importance in large graphs (and was a pioneering idea behind Google's search…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-26 Atish Das Sarma , Anisur Rahaman Molla , Gopal Pandurangan , Eli Upfal

As decentralized AI and edge intelligence become increasingly prevalent, ensuring robustness and trustworthiness in such distributed settings has become a critical issue-especially in the presence of corrupted or adversarial data.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-12 Anna Van Elst , Igor Colin , Stephan Clémençon

We propose an efficient framework for enabling secure multi-party numerical computations in a Peer-to-Peer network. This problem arises in a range of applications such as collaborative filtering, distributed computation of trust and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-11-15 Danny Bickson , Genia Bezman , Danny Dolev , Benny Pinkas

We consider the problem of securely computing the kth-ranked element in a sequence of n private integers distributed among n parties. The kth-ranked element (e.g., minimum, maximum, median) is of particular interest in benchmarking, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Anselme Tueno , Florian Kerschbaum , Stefan Katzenbeisser , Yordan Boev , Mubashir Qureshi

We address the polling problem in social networks where individuals collaborate to choose the most favorite choice amongst some options, without divulging their vote and publicly exposing their potentially malicious actions. Given this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Bao-Thien Hoang , Abdessamad Imine

In distributed networks, calculating the maximum element is a fundamental task in data analysis, known as the distributed maximum consensus problem. However, the sensitive nature of the data involved makes privacy protection essential.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Wenrui Yu , Richard Heusdens , Jun Pang , Qiongxiu Li

Privacy preservation in distributed computations is an important subject as digitization and new technologies enable collection and storage of vast amounts of data, including private data belonging to individuals. To this end, there is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Katrine Tjell , Rafael Wisniewski

With the increasing demands for privacy protection, privacy-preserving machine learning has been drawing much attention in both academia and industry. However, most existing methods have their limitations in practical applications. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Fei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Xiaolin Zheng , Mingjie Zhu
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