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We propose Bayesian methods to assess the statistical disclosure risk of data released under zero-concentrated differential privacy, focusing on settings with a strong hierarchical structure and categorical variables with many levels. Risk…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-02-01 Zeki Kazan , Jerome Reiter

Private synthetic data sharing is preferred as it keeps the distribution and nuances of original data compared to summary statistics. The state-of-the-art methods adopt a select-measure-generate paradigm, but measuring large domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Meifan Zhang , Dihang Deng , Lihua Yin

The increasing prevalence of high-dimensional data across various applications has raised significant privacy concerns in statistical inference. In this paper, we propose a differentially private integrated statistic for testing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-04 Shiwei Sang , Yicheng Zeng , Xuehu Zhu , Shurong Zheng

This paper focuses on the design and analysis of privacy-preserving techniques for group testing and infection status retrieval. Our work is motivated by the need to provide accurate information on the status of disease spread among a group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mira Gonen , Michael Langberg , Alex Sprintson

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

We construct a universally Bayes consistent learning rule that satisfies differential privacy (DP). We first handle the setting of binary classification and then extend our rule to the more general setting of density estimation (with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Olivier Bousquet , Haim Kaplan , Aryeh Kontorovich , Yishay Mansour , Shay Moran , Menachem Sadigurschi , Uri Stemmer

While the introduction of differential privacy has been a major breakthrough in the study of privacy preserving data publication, some recent work has pointed out a number of cases where it is not possible to limit inference about…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Jia Wang , Ke Wang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

So far, privacy models follow two paradigms. The first paradigm, termed inferential privacy in this paper, focuses on the risk due to statistical inference of sensitive information about a target record from other records in the database.…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-17 Ke Wang , Peng Wang , Ada Waichee Fu , Raywong Chi-Wing Wong

Randomized response is one of the oldest and most well-known methods for analyzing confidential data. However, its utility for differentially private hypothesis testing is limited because it cannot achieve high privacy levels and low type I…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-06 Víctor Peña , Andrés F. Barrientos

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

Bootstrap is a common tool for quantifying uncertainty in data analysis. However, besides additional computational costs in the application of the bootstrap on massive data, a challenging problem in bootstrap based inference under…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-05 Holger Dette , Carina Graw

Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated definition of privacy which has gained significant attention over the past few years. Differentially private solutions enforce privacy by adding random noise to a function computed over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu

Differential privacy has emerged as the most studied framework for privacy-preserving machine learning. However, recent studies show that enforcing differential privacy guarantees can not only significantly degrade the utility of the model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Kai Yao , Marc Juarez

Differential privacy offers formal quantitative guarantees for algorithms over datasets, but it assumes attackers that know and can influence all but one record in the database. This assumption often vastly overapproximates the attackers'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Damien Desfontaines , Esfandiar Mohammadi , Elisabeth Krahmer , David Basin

Privacy-preserving releasing of complex data (e.g., image, text, audio) represents a long-standing challenge for the data mining research community. Due to rich semantics of the data and lack of a priori knowledge about the analysis task,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Xinyang Zhang , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

We propose the approach of model-based differentially private synthesis (modips) in the Bayesian framework for releasing individual-level surrogate/synthetic datasets with privacy guarantees given the original data. The modips technique…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-27 Fang Liu

Differential Privacy can provide provable privacy guarantees for training data in machine learning. However, the presence of proofs does not preclude the presence of errors. Inspired by recent advances in auditing which have been used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Florian Tramer , Andreas Terzis , Thomas Steinke , Shuang Song , Matthew Jagielski , Nicholas Carlini

Gaussian processes (GPs) are non-parametric Bayesian models that are widely used for diverse prediction tasks. Previous work in adding strong privacy protection to GPs via differential privacy (DP) has been limited to protecting only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Antti Honkela , Laila Melkas

We study private prediction where differential privacy is achieved by adding noise to the outputs of a non-private model. Existing methods rely on noise proportional to the global sensitivity of the model, often resulting in sub-optimal…

Differential privacy provides a rigorous framework for privacy-preserving data analysis. This paper proposes the first differentially private procedure for controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) in multiple hypothesis testing. Inspired…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Cynthia Dwork , Weijie J. Su , Li Zhang