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Privacy concerns have led to a surge in the creation of synthetic datasets, with diffusion models emerging as a promising avenue. Although prior studies have performed empirical evaluations on these models, there has been a gap in providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Rongzhe Wei , Eleonora Kreačić , Haoyu Wang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Vamsi K. Potluru , Pan Li

Decentralized min-max optimization allows multi-agent systems to collaboratively solve global min-max optimization problems by facilitating the exchange of model updates among neighboring agents, eliminating the need for a central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yueyang Quan , Chang Wang , Shengjie Zhai , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu

Differential privacy (DP) is a privacy-preserving paradigm that protects the training data when training deep learning models. Critically, the performance of models is determined by the training hyperparameters, especially those of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiqi Bu , Ruixuan Liu

In Federated Learning (FL), multiple clients jointly train a machine learning model by sharing gradient information, instead of raw data, with a server over multiple rounds. To address the possibility of information leakage in spite of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yashwant Krishna Pagoti , Arunesh Sinha , Shamik Sural

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

Distributed online learning is gaining increased traction due to its unique ability to process large-scale datasets and streaming data. To address the growing public awareness and concern on privacy protection, plenty of algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

Differential Privacy (DP) is a well-established framework to quantify privacy loss incurred by any algorithm. Traditional DP formulations impose a uniform privacy requirement for all users, which is often inconsistent with real-world…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

We consider a refinement of differential privacy --- per instance differential privacy (pDP), which captures the privacy of a specific individual with respect to a fixed data set. We show that this is a strict generalization of the standard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-15 Yu-Xiang Wang

Imbalanced learning occurs in classification settings where the distribution of class-labels is highly skewed in the training data, such as when predicting rare diseases or in fraud detection. This class imbalance presents a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Lucas Rosenblatt , Yuliia Lut , Eitan Turok , Marco Avella-Medina , Rachel Cummings

We consider the privacy-preserving machine learning (ML) setting where the trained model must satisfy differential privacy (DP) with respect to the labels of the training examples. We propose two novel approaches based on, respectively, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Mani Malek , Ilya Mironov , Karthik Prasad , Igor Shilov , Florian Tramèr

Differential privacy is achieved by the introduction of Laplacian noise in the response to a query, establishing a precise trade-off between the level of differential privacy and the accuracy of the database response (via the amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Maurizio Naldi , Giuseppe D'Acquisto

We consider how to privately share the personalized privacy losses incurred by objective perturbation, using per-instance differential privacy (pDP). Standard differential privacy (DP) gives us a worst-case bound that might be orders of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Rachel Redberg , Yu-Xiang Wang

In an MPC-protected distributed computation, although the use of MPC assures data privacy during computation, sensitive information may still be inferred by curious MPC participants from the computation output. This can be observed, for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ivan Tjuawinata , Jiabo Wang , Mengmeng Yang , Shanxiang Lyu , Huaxiong Wang , Kwok-Yan Lam

Location data is collected from users continuously to understand their mobility patterns. Releasing the user trajectories may compromise user privacy. Therefore, the general practice is to release aggregated location datasets. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ammar Haydari , Chen-Nee Chuah , Michael Zhang , Jane Macfarlane , Sean Peisert

In this work, we consider a federated learning model in a wireless system with multiple base stations and inter-cell interference. We apply a differential private scheme to transmit information from users to their corresponding base station…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Nima Tavangaran , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaohui Yang , José Mairton B. Da Silva , H. Vincent Poor

In public health interventions such as distributing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, decision makers often use seeding algorithms to identify key individuals who can amplify intervention impact. However, building a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian , Fang-Yi Yu

Proper communication is key to the adoption and implementation of differential privacy (DP). However, a prior study found that laypeople did not understand the data perturbation processes of DP and how DP noise protects their sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Aiping Xiong , Chuhao Wu , Tianhao Wang , Robert W. Proctor , Jeremiah Blocki , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Differential privacy (DP) provides robust privacy guarantees for statistical inference, but this can lead to unreliable results and biases in downstream applications. While several noise-aware approaches have been proposed which integrate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Talal Alrawajfeh , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Honkela

Absolute anonymization, conceived as an irreversible transformation that prevents re-identification and sensitive value disclosure, has proven to be a broken promise. Consequently, modern data protection must shift toward a privacy-utility…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-16 Raphaël de Fondeville

Differential privacy (DP) is a prominent method for protecting information about individuals during data analysis. Training neural networks with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) influences the model's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lea Demelius , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler