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Ensuring the usefulness of electronic data sources while providing necessary privacy guarantees is an important unsolved problem. This problem drives the need for an analytical framework that can quantify the safety of personally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lalitha Sankar , S. Raj Rajagopalan , H. Vincent Poor

Information-theoretic (IT) measures based on $f$-divergences have recently gained interest as a measure of privacy leakage as they allow for trading off privacy against utility using only a single-value characterization. However, their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Chong Xiao Wang , Wee Peng Tay

Deploying machine learning models in production may allow adversaries to infer sensitive information about training data. There is a vast literature analyzing different types of inference risks, ranging from membership inference to…

Recently, quantum classifiers have been found to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, in which quantum classifiers are deceived by imperceptible noises, leading to misclassification. In this paper, we propose the first theoretical study…

Hyperparameter tuning is a common practice in the application of machine learning but is a typically ignored aspect in the literature on privacy-preserving machine learning due to its negative effect on the overall privacy parameter. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Youlong Ding , Xueyang Wu

Ensuring privacy of sensitive data is essential in many contexts, such as healthcare data, banks, e-commerce, wireless sensor networks, and social networks. It is common that different entities coordinate or want to rely on a third party to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Pradeep Chathuranga Weeraddana , George Athanasiou , Martin Jakobsson , Carlo Fischione , John S. Baras

This tutorial studies relationships between differential privacy and various information-theoretic measures by using several selective articles. In particular, we present how these connections can provide new interpretations for the privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Ayse Unsal , Melek Onen

Ensuring the usefulness of electronic data sources while providing necessary privacy guarantees is an important unsolved problem. This problem drives the need for an overarching analytical framework that can quantify the safety of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-04 Lalitha Sankar , S. Raj Rajagopalan , H. Vincent Poor

Differential Privacy (DP) provides tight upper bounds on the capabilities of optimal adversaries, but such adversaries are rarely encountered in practice. Under the hypothesis testing/membership inference interpretation of DP, we examine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Georgios Kaissis , Alexander Ziller , Stefan Kolek Martinez de Azagra , Daniel Rueckert

As quantum computers become available through multi-tenant cloud platforms, ensuring privacy against adversaries sharing the same quantum processing unit becomes critical. We introduce and explore \emph{covert quantum computing}, a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Evan J. D. Anderson , Kaushik Datta , Boulat A. Bash

Differential privacy is a rigorous mathematical framework for evaluating and protecting data privacy. In most existing studies, there is a vulnerable assumption that records in a dataset are independent when differential privacy is applied.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Tao Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Renping Liu , Wanlei Zhou

Differential Privacy can provide provable privacy guarantees for training data in machine learning. However, the presence of proofs does not preclude the presence of errors. Inspired by recent advances in auditing which have been used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Florian Tramer , Andreas Terzis , Thomas Steinke , Shuang Song , Matthew Jagielski , Nicholas Carlini

Auditing mechanisms for differential privacy use probabilistic means to empirically estimate the privacy level of an algorithm. For private machine learning, existing auditing mechanisms are tight: the empirical privacy estimate (nearly)…

In this paper, we propose two new definitions of local differential privacy for belief functions. One is based on Shafer's semantics of randomly coded messages and the other from the perspective of imprecise probabilities. We show that such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Qiyu Li , Chunlai Zhou , Biao Qin , Zhiqiang Xu

A quantum generalized divergence by definition satisfies the data-processing inequality; as such, the relative decrease in such a divergence under the action of a quantum channel is at most one. This relative decrease is formally known as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Theshani Nuradha , Mark M. Wilde

The privacy of data is a major challenge in machine learning as a trained model may expose sensitive information of the enclosed dataset. Besides, the limited computation capability and capacity of edge devices have made cloud-hosted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Behnam Khaleghi , Mohsen Imani , Tajana Rosing

Designing a data sharing mechanism without sacrificing too much privacy can be considered as a game between data holders and malicious attackers. This paper describes a compressive adversarial privacy framework that captures the trade-off…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Xiao Chen , Peter Kairouz , Ram Rajagopal

This work studies formal utility and privacy guarantees for a simple multiplicative database transformation, where the data are compressed by a random linear or affine transformation, reducing the number of data records substantially, while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-01-13 Shuheng Zhou , Katrina Ligett , Larry Wasserman

Quantum private query (QPQ) is the quantum version for symmetrically private retrieval. However, the user privacy in QPQ is generally guarded in the non-realtime and cheat sensitive way. That is, the dishonest database holder's cheating to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Chun-Yan Wei , Xiao-Qiu Cai , Tian-Yin Wang

As image processing systems proliferate, privacy concerns intensify given the sensitive personal information contained in images. This paper examines privacy challenges in image processing and surveys emerging privacy-preserving techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Maneesha , Bharat Gupta , Rishabh Sethi , Charvi Adita Das