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Densest subgraph detection is a fundamental graph mining problem, with a large number of applications. There has been a lot of work on efficient algorithms for finding the densest subgraph in massive networks. However, in many domains, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti

Existing studies on differential privacy mainly consider aggregation on data sets where each entry corresponds to a particular participant to be protected. In many situations, a user may pose a relational algebra query on a sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Shixi Chen , Shuigeng Zhou

Differential Privacy is the gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. This paper addresses the challenge of producing a differentially edge-private vertex coloring. In this paper, we present two novel algorithms to approach this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michael Xie , Jiayi Wu , Dung Nguyen , Aravind Srinivasan

The turnstile continual release model of differential privacy captures scenarios where a privacy-preserving real-time analysis is sought for a dataset evolving through additions and deletions. In typical applications of real-time data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rachel Cummings , Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Tamalika Mukherjee , Tingting Ou , Peilin Zhong

Computing the core decomposition of a graph is a fundamental problem that has recently been studied in the differentially private setting, motivated by practical applications in data mining. In particular, Dhulipala et al. [FOCS 2022] gave…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Monika Henzinger , A. R. Sricharan , Leqi Zhu

Differential privacy allows bounding the influence that training data records have on a machine learning model. To use differential privacy in machine learning, data scientists must choose privacy parameters $(\epsilon,\delta)$. Choosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Daniel Bernau , Günther Eibl , Philip W. Grassal , Hannah Keller , Florian Kerschbaum

We study the setup where each of $n$ users holds an element from a discrete set, and the goal is to count the number of distinct elements across all users, under the constraint of $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially privacy: - In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Lijie Chen , Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Differential privacy has been used to privately calculate numerous network properties, but existing approaches often require the development of a new privacy mechanism for each property of interest. Therefore, we present a framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Huaiyuan Rao , Calvin Hawkins , Alexander Benvenuti , Matthew Hale

Privacy is a central challenge for systems that learn from sensitive data sets, especially when a system's outputs must be continuously updated to reflect changing data. We consider the achievable error for differentially private continual…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Palak Jain , Iden Kalemaj , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Satchit Sivakumar , Adam Smith

Motivated by growing concerns over ensuring privacy on social networks, we develop new algorithms and impossibility results for fitting complex statistical models to network data subject to rigorous privacy guarantees. We consider the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Christian Borgs , Jennifer Chayes , Adam Smith , Ilias Zadik

Local Differential Privacy protocols are stochastic protocols used in data aggregation when individual users do not trust the data aggregator with their private data. In such protocols there is a fundamental tradeoff between user privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Zitao Li , Boris Škorić , Ninghui Li

Differential privacy is the state-of-the-art formal definition for data release under strong privacy guarantees. A variety of mechanisms have been proposed in the literature for releasing the output of numeric queries (e.g., the Laplace…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Victor A. E. Farias , Felipe T. Brito , Cheryl Flynn , Javam C. Machado , Subhabrata Majumdar , Divesh Srivastava

Graph pattern counting serves as a cornerstone of network analysis with extensive real-world applications. Its integration with local differential privacy (LDP) has gained growing attention for protecting sensitive graph information in…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yihua Hu , Kuncan Wang , Wei Dong

Privacy-preserving data analysis is a rising challenge in contemporary statistics, as the privacy guarantees of statistical methods are often achieved at the expense of accuracy. In this paper, we investigate the tradeoff between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-11 T. Tony Cai , Yichen Wang , Linjun Zhang

The shuffle model of Differential Privacy (DP) is an enhanced privacy protocol which introduces an intermediate trusted server between local users and a central data curator. It significantly amplifies the central DP guarantee by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yixuan Liu , Yuhan Liu , Li Xiong , Yujie Gu , Hong Chen

Graph Neural Networks have achieved tremendous success in modeling complex graph data in a variety of applications. However, there are limited studies investigating privacy protection in GNNs. In this work, we propose a learning framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Karuna Bhaila , Wen Huang , Yongkai Wu , Xintao Wu

Decentralized optimization is increasingly popular in machine learning for its scalability and efficiency. Intuitively, it should also provide better privacy guarantees, as nodes only observe the messages sent by their neighbors in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Edwige Cyffers , Mathieu Even , Aurélien Bellet , Laurent Massoulié

We introduce a model for differentially private analysis of weighted graphs in which the graph topology $(V,E)$ is assumed to be public and the private information consists only of the edge weights $w:E\to\mathbb{R}^+$. This can express…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Adam Sealfon

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

Differential privacy is often studied in one of two models. In the central model, a single analyzer has the responsibility of performing a privacy-preserving computation on data. But in the local model, each data owner ensures their own…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Albert Cheu