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Conformal prediction (CP) has attracted broad attention as a simple and flexible framework for uncertainty quantification through prediction sets. In this work, we study how to deploy CP under differential privacy (DP) in a statistically…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-21 Jiamei Wu , Ce Zhang , Zhipeng Cai , Jingsen Kong , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong , Lingchen Kong

Mechanisms used in privacy-preserving machine learning often aim to guarantee differential privacy (DP) during model training. Practical DP-ensuring training methods use randomization when fitting model parameters to privacy-sensitive data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Bogdan Kulynych , Hsiang Hsu , Carmela Troncoso , Flavio P. Calmon

Confidence intervals are a fundamental tool for quantifying the uncertainty of parameters of interest. With the increase of data privacy awareness, developing a private version of confidence intervals has gained growing attention from both…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-12 Shurong Lin , Mark Bun , Marco Gaboardi , Eric D. Kolaczyk , Adam Smith

The integration of Differential Privacy (DP) with diffusion models (DMs) presents a promising yet challenging frontier, particularly due to the substantial memorization capabilities of DMs that pose significant privacy risks. Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yu-Lin Tsai , Yizhe Li , Zekai Chen , Po-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Xuebin Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

Synthetic control is a causal inference tool used to estimate the treatment effects of an intervention by creating synthetic counterfactual data. This approach combines measurements from other similar observations (i.e., donor pool ) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Saeyoung Rho , Rachel Cummings , Vishal Misra

We address the challenge of ensuring differential privacy (DP) guarantees in training deep retrieval systems. Training these systems often involves the use of contrastive-style losses, which are typically non-per-example decomposable,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aldo Gael Carranza , Rezsa Farahani , Natalia Ponomareva , Alex Kurakin , Matthew Jagielski , Milad Nasr

Protection of individual privacy is a common concern when releasing and sharing data and information. Differential privacy (DP) formalizes privacy in probabilistic terms without making assumptions about the background knowledge of data…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-10 Fang Liu

Differential privacy (DP) allows the quantification of privacy loss when the data of individuals is subjected to algorithmic processing such as machine learning, as well as the provision of objective privacy guarantees. However, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Tamara T. Mueller , Alexander Ziller , Dmitrii Usynin , Moritz Knolle , Friederike Jungmann , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

As the prevalence of data analysis grows, safeguarding data privacy has become a paramount concern. Consequently, there has been an upsurge in the development of mechanisms aimed at privacy-preserving data analyses. However, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuzheng Hu , Fan Wu , Qinbin Li , Yunhui Long , Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Chang Ge , Bolin Ding , David Forsyth , Bo Li , Dawn Song

With the rapid digitalization of healthcare systems, there has been a substantial increase in the generation and sharing of private health data. Safeguarding patient information is essential for maintaining consumer trust and ensuring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yazan Otoum , Amiya Nayak

We propose a relaxed privacy definition called {\em random differential privacy} (RDP). Differential privacy requires that adding any new observation to a database will have small effect on the output of the data-release procedure. Random…

Methodology · Statistics 2011-12-13 Rob Hall , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Training data privacy is a fundamental problem in modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications, such as face recognition, recommendation systems, language generation, and many others, as it may contain sensitive user information related…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jiuxiang Gu , Yingyu Liang , Zhizhou Sha , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song

Protecting user data privacy can be achieved via many methods, from statistical transformations to generative models. However, all of them have critical drawbacks. For example, creating a transformed data set using traditional techniques is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Tânia Carvalho , Nuno Moniz , Luís Antunes , Nitesh Chawla

Recent advancements in generative AI have made it possible to create synthetic datasets that can be as accurate as real-world data for training AI models, powering statistical insights, and fostering collaboration with sensitive datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Amy Steier , Lipika Ramaswamy , Andre Manoel , Alexa Haushalter

Synthetic data from generative models emerges as the privacy-preserving data sharing solution. Such a synthetic data set shall resemble the original data without revealing identifiable private information. Till date, the prior focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chaoyi Zhu , Jiayi Tang , Juan F. Pérez , Marten van Dijk , Lydia Y. Chen

Randomized response, as a basic building-block for differentially private mechanism, has given rise to great interest and found various potential applications in science communities. In this work, we are concerned with three-elements…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Fei Ma , Ping Wang

Synthetic datasets are often presented as a silver-bullet solution to the problem of privacy-preserving data publishing. However, for many applications, synthetic data has been shown to have limited utility when used to train predictive…

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

Creation of a synthetic dataset that faithfully represents the data distribution and simultaneously preserves privacy is a major research challenge. Many space partitioning based approaches have emerged in recent years for answering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Eleonora Kreačić , Navid Nouri , Vamsi K. Potluru , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

The widespread acceptance of differential privacy has led to the publication of many sophisticated algorithms for protecting privacy. However, due to the subtle nature of this privacy definition, many such algorithms have bugs that make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Zeyu Ding , Yuxin Wang , Guanhong Wang , Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer