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Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the workhorse algorithm for recent advances in private deep learning. It provides a single privacy guarantee to all datapoints in the dataset. We propose output-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Da Yu , Gautam Kamath , Janardhan Kulkarni , Tie-Yan Liu , Jian Yin , Huishuai Zhang

Differential Privacy is the gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. This paper addresses the challenge of producing a differentially edge-private vertex coloring. In this paper, we present two novel algorithms to approach this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michael Xie , Jiayi Wu , Dung Nguyen , Aravind Srinivasan

The correlations and network structure amongst individuals in datasets today---whether explicitly articulated, or deduced from biological or behavioral connections---pose new issues around privacy guarantees, because of inferences that can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Arpita Ghosh , Robert Kleinberg

Personalized privacy becomes critical in deep learning for Trustworthy AI. While Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used in deep learning methods supporting privacy, it provides the same level of privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Geon Heo , Junseok Seo , Steven Euijong Whang

The shuffle model of Differential Privacy (DP) is an enhanced privacy protocol which introduces an intermediate trusted server between local users and a central data curator. It significantly amplifies the central DP guarantee by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Yixuan Liu , Yuhan Liu , Li Xiong , Yujie Gu , Hong Chen

Differential privacy has emerged as a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. A popular variant is local differential privacy, where the data holder is the trusted curator. A major barrier, however, towards a wider adoption of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Joseph Geumlek , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Differential privacy is a well-established framework for safeguarding sensitive information in data. While extensively applied across various domains, its application to network data -- particularly at the node level -- remains…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Suqing Liu , Xuan Bi , Tianxi Li

Differential privacy enables organizations to collect accurate aggregates over sensitive data with strong, rigorous guarantees on individuals' privacy. Previous work has found that under differential privacy, computing multiple correlated…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Ganzhao Yuan , Yin Yang , Zhenjie Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

We study the application of differential privacy in hyper-parameter tuning, a crucial process in machine learning involving selecting the best hyper-parameter from several candidates. Unlike many private learning algorithms, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Chenglong Wang , Di Wang

We generalize a previous framework for designing utility-optimal differentially private (DP) mechanisms via graphs, where datasets are vertices in the graph and edges represent dataset neighborhood. The boundary set contains datasets where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Sahel Torkamani , Javad B. Ebrahimi , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Muriel Medard

Finding min $s$-$t$ cuts in graphs is a basic algorithmic tool with applications in image segmentation, community detection, reinforcement learning, and data clustering. In this problem, we are given two nodes as terminals, and the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Mina Dalirrooyfard , Slobodan Mitrović , Yuriy Nevmyvaka

The importance of deep learning data privacy has gained significant attention in recent years. It is probably to suffer data breaches when applying deep learning to cryptocurrency that lacks supervision of financial regulatory agencies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Jun-Hao Chen , Yi-Jen Wang , Yun-Cheng Tsai , Samuel Yen-Chi Chen

Personalized PageRank (PPR) is a fundamental tool in unsupervised learning of graph representations such as node ranking, labeling, and graph embedding. However, while data privacy is one of the most important recent concerns, existing PPR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Alessandro Epasto , Vahab Mirrokni , Bryan Perozzi , Anton Tsitsulin , Peilin Zhong

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

We address differential privacy for fully distributed optimization subject to a shared inequality constraint. By co-designing the distributed optimization mechanism and the differential-privacy noise injection mechanism, we propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) is a single-parameter family of privacy notions that provides coherent guarantees to avoid the exposure of sensitive individual information. Despite the extra interpretability and tighter bounds under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yi Liu , Ke Sun , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

Differential privacy is a privacy measure based on the difficulty of discriminating between similar input data. In differential privacy analysis, similar data usually implies that their distance does not exceed a predetermined threshold.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Genki Sugiura , Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

Graph embedding has become a powerful tool for learning latent representations of nodes in a graph. Despite its superior performance in various graph-based machine learning tasks, serious privacy concerns arise when the graph data contains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zening Li , Rong-Hua Li , Meihao Liao , Fusheng Jin , Guoren Wang

Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto notion of privacy both in theory and in practice. However, despite its popularity, DP imposes strict requirements which guard against strong worst-case scenarios. For example, it guards against…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guy Blanc , William Pires , Toniann Pitassi

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…