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To resolve the acute problem of privacy protection and guarantee that data can be used in the context of threat intelligence, this paper considers the implementation of Differential Privacy (DP) in cybersecurity analytics. DP, which is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Brahim Khalil Sedraoui , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Amina Makhlouf , Chaouki Chemam

The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a rigorous framework for privacy, ensuring the outputs of data-driven algorithms remain statistically indistinguishable across datasets that differ in a single entry. While guaranteeing DP generally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yizhou Zhang , Kishan Panaganti , Laixi Shi , Juba Ziani , Adam Wierman

Pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) are an integral part of modern AI that have led to breakthrough performances in complex AI tasks. Major AI companies with expensive infrastructures are able to develop and train these large models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Rouzbeh Behnia , Mohamamdreza Ebrahimi , Jason Pacheco , Balaji Padmanabhan

Privacy risks in differentially private (DP) systems increase significantly when data is correlated, as standard DP metrics often underestimate the resulting privacy leakage, leaving sensitive information vulnerable. Given the ubiquity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Martin Lange , Patricia Guerra-Balboa , Javier Parra-Arnau , Thorsten Strufe

The proliferation of streaming data analytics in data-driven applications raises critical privacy concerns, as directly collecting user data may compromise personal privacy. Although existing $w$-event local differential privacy (LDP)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Chang Liu , Junzhou Zhao

Differential privacy (DP) is crucial for safeguarding sensitive client information in federated learning (FL), yet traditional DP-FL methods rely predominantly on fixed gradient clipping thresholds. Such static clipping neglects significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Hao Zhou , Siqi Cai , Hua Dai , Geng Yang , Jing Luo , Hui Cai

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

Reconstruction attacks allow an adversary to regenerate data samples of the training set using access to only a trained model. It has been recently shown that simple heuristics can reconstruct data samples from language models, making this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Pierre Stock , Igor Shilov , Ilya Mironov , Alexandre Sablayrolles

We propose and implement a Privacy-preserving Federated Learning ($PPFL$) framework for mobile systems to limit privacy leakages in federated learning. Leveraging the widespread presence of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) in high-end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Fan Mo , Hamed Haddadi , Kleomenis Katevas , Eduard Marin , Diego Perino , Nicolas Kourtellis

Differential privacy (DP) defines privacy protection by promising quantified indistinguishability between individuals that consent to share their privacy-sensitive information and the ones that do not. DP aims to deliver this promise by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Shiliang Zhang , Anton Hagermalm , Sanjin Slavnic , Elad Michael Schiller , Magnus Almgren

Differential privacy (DP) is the prevailing technique for protecting user data in machine learning models. However, deficits to this framework include a lack of clarity for selecting the privacy budget $\epsilon$ and a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Tyler LeBlond , Joseph Munoz , Fred Lu , Maya Fuchs , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Brian Testa

Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) are used to safeguard on-device models. However, directly employing TEEs to secure the entire DNN model is challenging due to the limited computational speed. Utilizing GPU can accelerate DNN's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Ding Li , Ziqi Zhang , Mengyu Yao , Yifeng Cai , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen

We consider the standard $K$-armed bandit problem under a distributed trust model of differential privacy (DP), which enables to guarantee privacy without a trustworthy server. Under this trust model, previous work largely focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Sayak Ray Chowdhury , Xingyu Zhou

Ciphertexts of an order-preserving encryption (OPE) scheme preserve the order of their corresponding plaintexts. However, OPEs are vulnerable to inference attacks that exploit this preserved order. At another end, differential privacy has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Bolin Ding , Somesh Jha , Weiran Liu , Jingren Zhou

Machine learning models are increasingly made available to the masses through public query interfaces. Recent academic work has demonstrated that malicious users who can query such models are able to infer sensitive information about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Yunhui Long , Vincent Bindschaedler , Carl A. Gunter

The task of $\textit{Differentially Private Text Rewriting}$ is a class of text privatization techniques in which (sensitive) input textual documents are $\textit{rewritten}$ under Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees. The motivation behind…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Stephen Meisenbacher , Chaeeun Joy Lee , Florian Matthes

Differentially private (DP) decentralized Federated Learning (FL) allows local users to collaborate without sharing their data with a central server. However, accurately quantifying the privacy budget of private FL algorithms is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Buxin Su , Chendi Wang , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) provides provable privacy protection for data collection without the assumption of the trusted data server. In the real-world scenario, different data have different privacy requirements due to the distinct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong , Yang Cao

With the advancements in connected devices, a huge amount of real-time data is being generated. Efficient storage, transmission, and analysation of this real-time big data is important, as it serves a number of purposes ranging from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Muneeb Ul Hassan , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Jinjun Chen