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Quantum algorithms for solving a wide range of practical problems have been proposed in the last ten years, such as data search and analysis, product recommendation, and credit scoring. The concern about privacy and other ethical issues in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Ji Guan , Wang Fang , Mingyu Huang , Mingsheng Ying

The shuffle model of local differential privacy is an advanced method of privacy amplification designed to enhance privacy protection with high utility. It achieves this by randomly shuffling sensitive data, making linking individual data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-04 E Chen , Yang Cao , Yifei Ge

Differential privacy (DP) has achieved remarkable results in the field of privacy-preserving machine learning. However, existing DP frameworks do not satisfy all the conditions for becoming metrics, which prevents them from deriving better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Chengyi Yang , Jiayin Qi , Aimin Zhou

Surveys are an important tool for many areas of social science research, but privacy concerns can complicate the collection and analysis of survey data. Differentially private analyses of survey data can address these concerns, but at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Krystal Maughan , Joseph P. Near

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

When analysing Differentially Private (DP) machine learning pipelines, the potential privacy cost of data-dependent pre-processing is frequently overlooked in privacy accounting. In this work, we propose a general framework to evaluate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yaxi Hu , Amartya Sanyal , Bernhard Schölkopf

Privacy-preserving distributed average consensus has received significant attention recently due to its wide applicability. Based on the achieved performances, existing approaches can be broadly classified into perfect accuracy-prioritized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Milan Lopuhaa-Zwakenberg , Richard Heusdens

We treat privacy in a network of quantum sensors where accessible information is limited to specific functions of the network parameters, and all other information remains private. We develop an analysis of privacy in terms of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Majid Hassani , Santiago Scheiner , Matteo G. A. Paris , Damian Markham

This paper studies how to achieve individual indistinguishability by pufferfish privacy in aggregated query to a multi-user system. It is assumed that each user reports realization of a random variable. We study how to calibrate Laplace…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ni Ding , Songpei Lu , Wenjing Yang , Zijian Zhang

This paper introduces the $\alpha$-Wasserstein mechanism for achieving R\'{e}nyi Pufferfish Privacy using Laplace and Gaussian noise. By leveraging H\"{o}lder's inequality, we demonstrate that the scale parameter of the Laplace mechanism…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ni Ding , Wenjin Yang , Zijian Zhang

Quantum machine learning (QML) can complement the growing trend of using learned models for a myriad of classification tasks, from image recognition to natural speech processing. A quantum advantage arises due to the intractability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 William M Watkins , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen , Shinjae Yoo

Quantum computing revolutionizes the way of solving complex problems and handling vast datasets, which shows great potential to accelerate the machine learning process. However, data leakage in quantum machine learning (QML) may present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Keyi Ju , Xiaoqi Qin , Hui Zhong , Xinyue Zhang , Miao Pan , Baoling Liu

As data-driven technologies advance swiftly, maintaining strong privacy measures becomes progressively difficult. Conventional $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy, while prevalent, exhibits limited adaptability for many applications.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Yifeng Liu , Zehua Wang

The standard definition of differential privacy (DP) ensures that a mechanism's output distribution on adjacent datasets is indistinguishable. However, real-world implementations of DP can, and often do, reveal information through their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zachary Ratliff , Salil Vadhan

R\'{e}nyi Pufferfish Privacy (RPP) provides a R\'{e}nyi divergence-based privacy framework for correlated data, but existing $\infty$-Wasserstein mechanisms are often conservative and sacrifice data utility. We study Gaussian mechanisms for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Wenjin Yang , Ni Ding , Zijian Zhang , Zhen Li , Jing Sun , Jincheng An , Yong Liu , Liehuang Zhu

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

Quantum federated learning (QFL) enables collaborative training of quantum machine learning (QML) models across distributed quantum devices without raw data exchange. However, QFL remains vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where shared QML…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Atit Pokharel , Ratun Rahman , Shaba Shaon , Thomas Morris , Dinh C. Nguyen

Privacy is a fundamental requirement in distributed quantum sensing networks, where multiple clients estimate spatially distributed parameters using shared quantum resources while interacting with potentially untrusted servers. Despite its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Min Namkung , Dong-Hyun Kim , Seongjin Hong , Yong-Su Kim , Su-Yong Lee , Hyang-Tag Lim

Differential privacy is a framework for protecting the identity of individual data points in the decision-making process. In this note, we propose a new form of differential privacy called tangent differential privacy. Compared with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Lexing Ying

Differential privacy mechanisms such as the Gaussian or Laplace mechanism have been widely used in data analytics for preserving individual privacy. However, they are mostly designed for continuous outputs and are unsuitable for scenarios…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Zhongteng Cai , Xueru Zhang , Mohammad Mahdi Khalili