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We propose a novel problem formulation to address the privacy-utility tradeoff, specifically when dealing with two distinct user groups characterized by unique sets of private and utility attributes. Unlike previous studies that primarily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Bishwas Mandal , George Amariucai , Shuangqing Wei

In this paper, we study the concurrent composition of interactive mechanisms with adaptively chosen privacy-loss parameters. In this setting, the adversary can interleave queries to existing interactive mechanisms, as well as create new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Samuel Haney , Michael Shoemate , Grace Tian , Salil Vadhan , Andrew Vyrros , Vicki Xu , Wanrong Zhang

Taking online decisions is a part of everyday life. Think of buying a house, parking a car or taking part in an auction. We often take those decisions publicly, which may breach our privacy - a party observing our choices may learn a lot…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Krzysztof Grining , Marek Klonowski , Małgorzata Sulkowska

Motivated by the 2020 US Census products, this paper extends differential privacy (DP) to address the joint release of DP outputs and nonprivate statistics, referred to as invariant. Our framework, Semi-DP, redefines adjacency by focusing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Young Hyun Cho , Jordan Awan

Differential privacy (DP) has become a rigorous central concept for privacy protection in the past decade. We use Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) in gauging the level of privacy protection for releasing statistical summaries from data.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-04-01 Minwoo Kim , Jonghyeok Lee , Seung Woo Kwak , Sungkyu Jung

The total variation distance is proposed as a privacy measure in an information disclosure scenario when the goal is to reveal some information about available data in return of utility, while retaining the privacy of certain sensitive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Borzoo Rassouli , Deniz Gündüz

To prevent implicit privacy disclosure in sharing gradients among data owners (DOs) under federated learning (FL), differential privacy (DP) and its variants have become a common practice to offer formal privacy guarantees with low…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuntao Wang , Zhou Su , Yanghe Pan , Abderrahim Benslimane , Yiliang Liu , Tom H. Luan , Ruidong Li

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

Emerging discussions on the responsible government use of algorithmic technologies propose transparency and public participation as key mechanisms for preserving accountability and trust. But in practice, the adoption and use of any…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Amina A. Abdu , Lauren M. Chambers , Deirdre K. Mulligan , Abigail Z. Jacobs

Training machine learning models with differential privacy (DP) limits an adversary's ability to infer sensitive information about the training data. It can be interpreted as a bound on adversary's capability to distinguish two adjacent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Gauri Pradhan , Joonas Jälkö , Santiago Zanella-Béguelin , Antti Honkela

We study differentially private (DP) algorithms for smooth stochastic minimax optimization, with stochastic minimization as a byproduct. The holy grail of these settings is to guarantee the optimal trade-off between the privacy and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Liang Zhang , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Niao He

Composition is one of the most important properties of differential privacy (DP), as it allows algorithm designers to build complex private algorithms from DP primitives. We consider precise composition bounds of the overall privacy loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Jinshuo Dong , David Durfee , Ryan Rogers

This paper addresses the challenge of balancing learner data privacy with the use of data in learning analytics (LA) by proposing a novel framework by applying Differential Privacy (DP). The need for more robust privacy protection keeps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qinyi Liu , Ronas Shakya , Mohammad Khalil , Jelena Jovanovic

We initiate an empirical investigation into differentially private graph neural networks on population graphs from the medical domain by examining privacy-utility trade-offs at different privacy levels on both real-world and synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Tamara T. Mueller , Maulik Chevli , Ameya Daigavane , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

We present a comprehensive view of the relations among several privacy notions: differential privacy (DP) [1], Bayesian differential privacy (BDP) [2], semantic privacy (SP) [3], and membership privacy (MP) [4]. The results are organized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Jun Zhao

Motivation: Researchers need a rich trove of genomic datasets that they can leverage to gain a better understanding of the genetic basis of the human genome and identify associations between phenotypes and specific parts of DNA. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Nour Almadhoun Alserr , Gulce Kale , Onur Mutlu , Oznur Tastan , Erman Ayday

How do we interpret the differential privacy (DP) guarantee for network data? We take a deep dive into a popular form of network DP ($\varepsilon$--edge DP) to find that many of its common interpretations are flawed. Drawing on prior work…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Jonathan Hehir , Xiaoyue Niu , Aleksandra Slavkovic

Differential Privacy (DP) is a formal definition of privacy that provides rigorous guarantees against risks of privacy breaches during data processing. It makes no assumptions about the knowledge or computational power of adversaries, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Roxana Danger

As an increasing amount of data is gathered nowadays and stored in databases (DBs), the question arises of how to protect the privacy of individual records in a DB even while providing accurate answers to queries on the DB. Differential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Arun Padakandla , P. R. Kumar , Wojciech Szpankowski

In this paper, we present a notion of differential privacy (DP) for data that comes from different classes. Here, the class-membership is private information that needs to be protected. The proposed method is an output perturbation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Raksha Ramakrishna , Anna Scaglione , Tong Wu , Nikhil Ravi , Sean Peisert