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Differential privacy (DP) is a widely applied paradigm for releasing data while maintaining user privacy. Its success is to a large part due to its composition property that guarantees privacy even in the case of multiple data releases.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Valentin Hartmann , Vincent Bindschaedler , Robert West

Many intended uses of differential privacy involve a $\textit{continual mechanism}$ that is set up to run continuously over a long period of time, making more statistical releases as either queries come in or the dataset is updated. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Monika Henzinger , Roodabeh Safavi , Salil Vadhan

The exact composition of mechanisms for which two differential privacy (DP) constraints hold simultaneously is studied. The resulting privacy region admits an exact representation as a mixture over compositions of mechanisms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Cemre Cadir , Salim Najib , Yanina Y. Shkel

Composition is a cornerstone of classical differential privacy, enabling strong end-to-end guarantees for complex algorithms through composition theorems (e.g., basic and advanced). In the quantum setting, however, privacy is defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Daniel Alabi , Theshani Nuradha

Differential Privacy (DP) is the leading approach to privacy preserving deep learning. As such, there are multiple efforts to provide drop-in integration of DP into popular frameworks. These efforts, which add noise to each gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Mathias Lécuyer

Differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous privacy guarantees on individual's data while also allowing for accurate statistics to be conducted on the overall, sensitive dataset. To design a private system, first private algorithms must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mark Cesar , Ryan Rogers

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

An interactive mechanism is an algorithm that stores a data set and answers adaptively chosen queries to it. The mechanism is called differentially private, if any adversary cannot distinguish whether a specific individual is in the data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Xin Lyu

"f differential privacy" (fDP) is a recent definition for privacy privacy which can offer improved predictions of "privacy loss". It has been used to analyse specific privacy mechanisms, such as the popular Gaussian mechanism. In this paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Natasha Fernandes , Annabelle McIver , Parastoo Sadeghi

Datasets containing sensitive information are often sequentially analyzed by many algorithms. This raises a fundamental question in differential privacy regarding how the overall privacy bound degrades under composition. To address this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-26 Qinqing Zheng , Jinshuo Dong , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Composition is a key feature of differential privacy. Well-known advanced composition theorems allow one to query a private database quadratically more times than basic privacy composition would permit. However, these results require that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Justin Whitehouse , Aaditya Ramdas , Ryan Rogers , Zhiwei Steven Wu

In the study of differential privacy, composition theorems (starting with the original paper of Dwork, McSherry, Nissim, and Smith (TCC'06)) bound the degradation of privacy when composing several differentially private algorithms. Kairouz,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Jack Murtagh , Salil Vadhan

Differential Privacy (DP) considers a scenario in which an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database. This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy threat faced by an individual in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

Differential privacy (DP) has become the gold standard for privacy-preserving data analysis, but its applicability can be limited in scenarios involving complex dependencies between sensitive information and datasets. To address this, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Tao Zhang , Bradley A. Malin , Netanel Raviv , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Sequential querying of differentially private mechanisms degrades the overall privacy level. In this paper, we answer the fundamental question of characterizing the level of overall privacy degradation as a function of the number of queries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

We initiate a study of the composition properties of interactive differentially private mechanisms. An interactive differentially private mechanism is an algorithm that allows an analyst to adaptively ask queries about a sensitive dataset,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Salil Vadhan , Tianhao Wang

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used notion for reasoning about privacy when publishing aggregate data. In this paper, we observe that certain DP mechanisms are amenable to a posteriori privacy analysis that exploits the fact that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Valentin Hartmann , Vincent Bindschaedler , Alexander Bentkamp , Robert West

Differential privacy is often applied with a privacy parameter that is larger than the theory suggests is ideal; various informal justifications for tolerating large privacy parameters have been proposed. In this work, we consider partial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Thomas Steinke

Differential privacy is a rigorous privacy standard that has been applied to a range of data analysis tasks. To broaden the application scenarios of differential privacy when data records have dependencies, the notion of Bayesian…

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

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen
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