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This paper develops a framework for differentially private $e$-values under Gaussian differential privacy ($\mu$-GDP). We characterize the canonical noise mechanism, establishing that optimal multiplicative perturbation follows a Gaussian…

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We propose a numerical accountant for evaluating the tight $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-privacy loss for algorithms with discrete one dimensional output. The method is based on the privacy loss distribution formalism and it uses the recently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-24 Antti Koskela , Joonas Jälkö , Lukas Prediger , Antti Honkela

We investigate unbiased high-dimensional mean estimators in differential privacy. We consider differentially private mechanisms whose expected output equals the mean of the input dataset, for every dataset drawn from a fixed bounded…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-22 Aleksandar Nikolov , Haohua Tang

We provide the first $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}\left(d\right)$-sample algorithm for sampling from unbounded Gaussian distributions under the constraint of $\left(\varepsilon, \delta\right)$-differential privacy. This is a quadratic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Valentio Iverson , Gautam Kamath , Argyris Mouzakis

Machine learning is increasingly used in the most diverse applications and domains, whether in healthcare, to predict pathologies, or in the financial sector to detect fraud. One of the linchpins for efficiency and accuracy in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Tânia Carvalho , Nuno Moniz , Pedro Faria , Luís Antunes

With the rapid growth of digital platforms, there is increasing apprehension about how personal data is collected, stored, and used by various entities. These concerns arise from the increasing frequency of data breaches, cyber-attacks, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Christopher C. Zawacki , Eyad H. Abed

The Laplace mechanism and the Gaussian mechanism are primary mechanisms in differential privacy, widely applicable to many scenarios involving numerical data. However, due to the infinite-range random variables they generate, the Laplace…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jie Fu , Zhiyu Sun , Haitao Liu , Zhili Chen

We consider the privacy problem of statistical estimation from distributed data, where users communicate to a central processor over a Gaussian multiple-access channel(MAC). To avoid the inevitable sacrifice of data utility for privacy in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wenhao Zhan

There is a disconnect between how researchers and practitioners handle privacy-utility tradeoffs. Researchers primarily operate from a privacy first perspective, setting strict privacy requirements and minimizing risk subject to these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Justin Whitehouse , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Aaditya Ramdas , Ryan Rogers

The Quantum Private Query is a quantum cryptographic protocol to recover information from a database, preserving both user and data privacy: the user can test whether someone has retained information on which query was asked, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-16 F. De Martini , V. Giovannetti , S. Lloyd , L. Maccone , E. Nagali , L. Sansoni , F. Sciarrino

In this paper, we study a cooperative linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) control system with a single user and a server. In this system, the user runs a process and employs the server to meet the needs of computation. However, the user regards…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-29 Wenhao Lin , Yuqing Ni , Wen Yang , Chao Yang

We show that Gaussian Differential Privacy, a variant of differential privacy tailored to the analysis of Gaussian noise addition, composes gracefully even in the presence of a fully adaptive analyst. Such an analyst selects mechanisms (to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Adam Smith , Abhradeep Thakurta

We study the $\ell_2$ mechanism for computing a $d$-dimensional statistic with bounded $\ell_2$ sensitivity under approximate differential privacy. Across a range of privacy parameters, we find that the $\ell_2$ mechanism obtains lower…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Matthew Joseph , Alex Kulesza , Alexander Yu

We consider a user releasing her data containing some personal information in return of a service. We model user's personal information as two correlated random variables, one of them, called the secret variable, is to be kept private,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Ecenaz Erdemir , Pier Luigi Dragotti , Deniz Gunduz

Linear regression is a fundamental building block of statistical data analysis. It amounts to estimating the parameters of a linear model that maps input features to corresponding outputs. In the classical setting where the precision of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Nicolas Gast , Stratis Ioannidis , Patrick Loiseau , Benjamin Roussillon

We show a new lower bound on the sample complexity of $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithms that accurately answer statistical queries on high-dimensional databases. The novelty of our bound is that it depends optimally…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

We introduce a tunable measure for information leakage called maximal alpha-leakage. This measure quantifies the maximal gain of an adversary in inferring any (potentially random) function of a dataset from a release of the data. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Jiachun Liao , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar , Flavio du Pin Calmon

Consider the task of locating an unknown target point using approximate distance queries: in each round, a reconstructor selects a query point and receives a noisy version of its distance to the target. This problem arises naturally in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shay Moran , Elizaveta Nesterova

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

Consider a pair of random variables $(X,Y)$ distributed according to a given joint distribution $p_{XY}$. A curator wishes to maximally disclose information about $Y$, while limiting the information leakage incurred on $X$. Adopting mutual…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Borzoo Rassouli , Deniz Gündüz