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Sparse inner product (SIP) has the attractive property of overhead being dominated by the intersection of inputs between parties, independent of the actual input size. It has intriguing prospects, especially for boosting machine learning on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Guowen Xu , Shengmin Xu , Jianting Ning , Tianwei Zhang , Xinyi Huang , Hongwei Li , Rongxing Lu

Differential privacy (DP) considers a scenario, where an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy thread for an individual in real life.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

In our previous works, we defined Local Information Privacy (LIP) as a context-aware privacy notion and presented the corresponding privacy-preserving mechanism. Then we claim that the mechanism satisfies epsilon-LIP for any epsilon>0 for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Bo Jiang , Ming Li , Ravi Tandon

The problem of privately releasing data is to provide a version of a dataset without revealing sensitive information about the individuals who contribute to the data. The model of differential privacy allows such private release while…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-07 Graham Cormode , Magda Procopiuc , Divesh Srivastava , Thanh T. L. Tran

Providing a provable privacy guarantees while maintaining the utility of data is a challenging task in many real-world applications. Recently, a new framework called One-Sided Differential Privacy (OSDP) was introduced that extends existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Phillip Lee , Kevin Smith

Rigorous privacy mechanisms that can cope with dynamic data are required to encourage a wider adoption of large-scale monitoring and decision systems relying on end-user information. A promising approach to develop these mechanisms is to…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-04-09 Jerome Le Ny

The fundamental trade-off between privacy and utility remains an active area of research. Our contribution is motivated by two observations. First, privacy mechanisms developed for one-time data release cannot straightforwardly be extended…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Sophie Taylor , Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Justin Coon

Researchers increasingly use data on social and economic networks to study a range of social science questions, but releasing statistics derived from networks can raise significant privacy concerns. We show how to release network…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-17 Tom A. Rutter , Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian

A large amount of information has been published to online social networks every day. Individual privacy-related information is also possibly disclosed unconsciously by the end-users. Identifying privacy-related data and protecting the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Jiaqi Wu , Weihua Li , Quan Bai , Takayuki Ito , Ahmed Moustafa

In recent years, the growth of data across various sectors, including healthcare, security, finance, and education, has created significant opportunities for analysis and informed decision-making. However, these datasets often contain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Utsab Saha , Tanvir Muntakim Tonoy , Hafiz Imtiaz

We rethink the definition of privacy in multi-server, graph-replicated private information retrieval (PIR) systems, and introduce a novel setting where the user's privacy is governed by the servers' storage structure. In particular, while…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Shreya Meel , Mohamed Nomeir , Sennur Ulukus

We consider data release protocols for data $X=(S,U)$, where $S$ is sensitive; the released data $Y$ contains as much information about $X$ as possible, measured as $\operatorname{I}(X;Y)$, without leaking too much about $S$. We introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Jasper Goseling

In this paper, we study the problem of privacy-preserving data sharing, wherein only a subset of the records in a database are sensitive, possibly based on predefined privacy policies. Existing solutions, viz, differential privacy (DP), are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Stelios Doudalis , Ios Kotsogiannis , Samuel Haney , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Sharad Mehrotra

The streaming model of computation is a popular approach for working with large-scale data. In this setting, there is a stream of items and the goal is to compute the desired quantities (usually data statistics) while making a single pass…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Andres Munoz Medina , Vahab Mirrokni , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Peilin Zhong

Sensors embedded in mobile smart devices can monitor users' activity with high accuracy to provide a variety of services to end-users ranging from precise geolocation, health monitoring, and handwritten word recognition. However, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Rahat Masood , Wing Yan Cheng , Dinusha Vatsalan , Deepak Mishra , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

When collecting information, local differential privacy (LDP) alleviates privacy concerns of users because their private information is randomized before being sent it to the central aggregator. LDP imposes large amount of noise as each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tianhao Wang , Bolin Ding , Min Xu , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Jingren Zhou , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

This research addresses privacy protection in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by introducing a novel algorithm based on differential privacy, aimed at safeguarding user data in common applications such as chatbots, sentiment analysis, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shaobo Liu , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Yuanshuai Luo , Linxiao Wu , Rui Wang

Organizations often collect private data and release aggregate statistics for the public's benefit. If no steps toward preserving privacy are taken, adversaries may use released statistics to deduce unauthorized information about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Johes Bater , Xi He , Jessica Hullman , Jennie Rogers

In this paper, we have introduced a new type of leakage associated with modern encrypted databases called update pattern leakage. We formalize the definition and security model of DP-Sync with DP update patterns. We also proposed the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Chenghong Wang , Johes Bater , Kartik Nayak , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Process mining enables organizations to discover and analyze their actual processes using event data. Event data can be extracted from any information system supporting operational processes, e.g., SAP. Whereas the data inside such systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Majid Rafiei , Wil M. P. van der Aalst