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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

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is popularly used in practice for privacy-preserving data collection. Although existing LDP protocols offer high utility for large user populations (100,000 or more users), they perform poorly in scenarios…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Acar Tamersoy , Stacey Truex , Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu

Locally differentially private (LDP) graph analysis allows private analysis on a graph that is distributed across multiple users. However, such computations are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks where an adversary can skew the results by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jacob Imola , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Recent studies reveal that local differential privacy (LDP) protocols are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks where an attacker can manipulate the final estimate on the server by leveraging the characteristics of LDP and sending carefully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Xiaoguang Li , Zitao Li , Ninghui Li , Wenhai Sun

In recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a technique of choice for privacy-preserving data collection in several scenarios when the aggregator is not trustworthy. LDP provides client-side privacy by adding noise at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Tejas Kulkarni , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

In recent years, Local Differential Privacy (LDP), a robust privacy-preserving methodology, has gained widespread adoption in real-world applications. With LDP, users can perturb their data on their devices before sending it out for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Karima Makhlouf , Catuscia Palamidessi

Local differential privacy (LDP) enables the efficient release of aggregate statistics without having to trust the central server (aggregator), as in the central model of differential privacy, and simultaneously protects a client's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tariq Bontekoe , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Fatih Turkmen

Federated learning (FL) combined with local differential privacy (LDP) enables privacy-preserving model training across decentralized data sources. However, the decentralized data-management paradigm leaves LDPFL vulnerable to participants…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zijian Wang , Wei Tong , Tingxuan Han , Haoyu Chen , Tianling Zhang , Yunlong Mao , Sheng Zhong

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

Contextual bandit algorithms are useful in personalized online decision-making. However, many applications such as personalized medicine and online advertising require the utilization of individual-specific information for effective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Yuxuan Han , Zhipeng Liang , Yang Wang , Jiheng Zhang

The remarkable proliferation of deep learning across various industries has underscored the importance of data privacy and security in AI pipelines. As the evolution of sophisticated Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) threatens the secrecy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Eugenio Lomurno , Alberto Archetti , Francesca Ausonio , Matteo Matteucci

Advanced adversarial attacks such as membership inference and model memorization can make federated learning (FL) vulnerable and potentially leak sensitive private data. Local differentially private (LDP) approaches are gaining more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 M. A. P. Chamikara , Dongxi Liu , Seyit Camtepe , Surya Nepal , Marthie Grobler , Peter Bertok , Ibrahim Khalil

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

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

When collecting information, local differential privacy (LDP) alleviates privacy concerns of users because their private information is randomized before being sent it to the central aggregator. LDP imposes large amount of noise as each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tianhao Wang , Bolin Ding , Min Xu , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Jingren Zhou , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

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

The notion of Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enables users to answer sensitive questions while preserving their privacy. The basic LDP frequent oracle protocol enables the aggregator to estimate the frequency of any value. But when the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Tianhao Wang , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

$\epsilon$-Differential privacy (DP) is a well-known privacy model that offers strong privacy guarantees. However, when applied to data releases, DP significantly deteriorates the analytical utility of the protected outcomes. To keep data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Jordi Soria-Comas , David Sánchez , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Sergio Martínez , Luis Del Vasto-Terrientes

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has emerged as a widely adopted privacy-preserving technique in modern data analytics, enabling users to share statistical insights while maintaining robust privacy guarantees. However, current LDP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Rong Du , Qingqing Ye , Yue Fu , Haibo Hu

Lately, differential privacy (DP) has been introduced in cooperative multiagent reinforcement learning (CMARL) to safeguard the agents' privacy against adversarial inference during knowledge sharing. Nevertheless, we argue that the noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Md Tamjid Hossain , Hung La