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Molecular communication (MC) enables information exchange in nanoscale sensor networks operating in biological environments, yet privacy remains largely unaddressed. We integrate local differential privacy (LDP) into diffusion-based MC by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Melih Şahin , Ozgur B. Akan

This paper focuses on the privacy-preserving multi-sensor fusion estimation (MSFE) problem with differential privacy considerations. Most existing research efforts are directed towards the exploration of traditional differential privacy,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Xinhao Yan , Bo Chen , Hailong Huang

User-level privacy is important in distributed systems. Previous research primarily focuses on the central model, while the local models have received much less attention. Under the central model, user-level DP is strictly stronger than the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-05-28 Puning Zhao , Li Shen , Rongfei Fan , Qingming Li , Huiwen Wu , Jiafei Wu , Zhe Liu

Differential privacy protects an individual's privacy by perturbing data on an aggregated level (DP) or individual level (LDP). We report four online human-subject experiments investigating the effects of using different approaches to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Aiping Xiong , Tianhao Wang , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

The introduction and advancements in Local Differential Privacy (LDP) variants have become a cornerstone in addressing the privacy concerns associated with the vast data produced by smart devices, which forms the foundation for data-driven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Likun Qin , Nan Wang , Tianshuo Qiu

Recent smart grid advancements enable near-realtime reporting of electricity consumption, raising concerns about consumer privacy. Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as a viable privacy solution, where a calculated amount of noise is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Khadija Hafeez , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Sumita Mishra , Donna OShea

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a rigorous framework for releasing statistics while protecting individual information present in a dataset. Although substantial progress has been made on differentially private linear regression, existing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Getoar Sopa , Marco Avella Medina , Cynthia Rush

We develop a theory of asymptotic efficiency in regular parametric models when data confidentiality is ensured by local differential privacy (LDP). Even though efficient parameter estimation is a classical and well-studied problem in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Lukas Steinberger

LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has been widely studied to estimate statistics of personal data (e.g., distribution underlying the data) while protecting users' privacy. Although LDP does not require a trusted third party, it regards all…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Takao Murakami , Yusuke Kawamoto

Differential Privacy (DP) has become a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. While it provides one of the most rigorous notions of privacy, there are many settings where its applicability is limited. Our main contribution is in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Aman Bansal , Rahul Chunduru , Deepesh Data , Manoj Prabhakaran

We study the problem of discrete distribution estimation under utility-optimized local differential privacy (ULDP), which enforces local differential privacy (LDP) on sensitive data while allowing more accurate inference on non-sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sun-Moon Yoon , Hyun-Young Park , Seung-Hyun Nam , Si-Hyeon Lee

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 study approximation algorithms for Maximum Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Max-CSPs) under differential privacy (DP) where the constraints are considered sensitive data. Information-theoretically, we aim to classify the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Prathamesh Dharangutte , Jingcheng Liu , Pasin Manurangsi , Akbar Rafiey , Phanu Vajanopath , Zongrui Zou

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

Differential Privacy (DP) provides strong guarantees on the risk of compromising a user's data in statistical learning applications, though these strong protections make learning challenging and may be too stringent for some use cases. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Hilal Asi , John Duchi , Omid Javidbakht

Real-time data-driven optimization and control problems over networks may require sensitive information of participating users to calculate solutions and decision variables, such as in traffic or energy systems. Adversaries with access to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Roel Dobbe , Ye Pu , Jingge Zhu , Kannan Ramchandran , Claire Tomlin

We optimize the trade-off between privacy and utility in the high-privacy regime. We adopt local differential privacy (LDP) and its quantum extension, quantum local differential privacy (QLDP), for privacy protection, and investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Yuuya Yoshida

Data-driven advancements significantly contribute to societal progress, yet they also pose substantial risks to privacy. In this landscape, differential privacy (DP) has become a cornerstone in privacy preservation efforts. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sara Saeidian , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

The emergence and evolution of Local Differential Privacy (LDP) and its various adaptations play a pivotal role in tackling privacy issues related to the vast amounts of data generated by intelligent devices, which are crucial for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Likun Qin , Tianshuo Qiu

Concern about how to aggregate sensitive user data without compromising individual privacy is a major barrier to greater availability of data. The model of differential privacy has emerged as an accepted model to release sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Graham Cormode , Tejas Kulkarni , Divesh Srivastava