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Differential privacy is often applied with a privacy parameter that is larger than the theory suggests is ideal; various informal justifications for tolerating large privacy parameters have been proposed. In this work, we consider partial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Thomas Steinke

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

Distributed quantum computing, particularly distributed quantum machine learning, has gained substantial prominence for its capacity to harness the collective power of distributed quantum resources, transcending the limitations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Changhao Li , Niraj Kumar , Zhixin Song , Shouvanik Chakrabarti , Marco Pistoia

We present new auditors to assess Differential Privacy (DP) of an algorithm based on output samples. Such empirical auditors are common to check for algorithmic correctness and implementation bugs. Most existing auditors are batch-based or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tim Kutta , Martin Dunsche , Yu Wei , Vassilis Zikas

Differential Privacy (DP) is often presented as a strong privacy-enhancing technology with broad applicability and advocated as a de-facto standard for releasing aggregate statistics on sensitive data. However, in many embodiments, DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ari Biswas , Graham Cormode

Noise in quantum information processing is often viewed as a disruptive and difficult-to-avoid feature, especially in near-term quantum technologies. However, noise has often played beneficial roles, from enhancing weak signals in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Yuxuan Du , Min-Hsiu Hsieh , Tongliang Liu , Dacheng Tao , Nana Liu

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

Data holders are increasingly seeking to protect their user's privacy, whilst still maximizing their ability to produce machine models with high quality predictions. In this work, we empirically evaluate various implementations of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Benjamin Zi Hao Zhao , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Nicolas Kourtellis

Differential privacy (DP), provides a framework for provable privacy protection against arbitrary adversaries, while allowing the release of summary statistics and synthetic data. We address the problem of releasing a noisy real-valued…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-04 Jordan Awan , Aleksandra Slavkovic

Recent developments in deep learning have led to great success in various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, these applications may involve data that contain sensitive information. Therefore, how to achieve good performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Lijie Hu , Ivan Habernal , Lei Shen , Di Wang

Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematical definition of privacy that can be widely applied when publishing data. DP has been recognized as a potential means of adhering to various privacy-related legal requirements. However, it can be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Jessica Hullman

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

Machine Learning (ML) models integrated with in-situ sensing offer transformative solutions for defect detection in Additive Manufacturing (AM), but this integration brings critical challenges in safeguarding sensitive data, such as part…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Fardin Jalil Piran , Prathyush P. Poduval , Hamza Errahmouni Barkam , Mohsen Imani , Farhad Imani

Privacy-preserving distributed average consensus has received significant attention recently due to its wide applicability. Based on the achieved performances, existing approaches can be broadly classified into perfect accuracy-prioritized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Milan Lopuhaa-Zwakenberg , Richard Heusdens

Recent smart grid advancements enable near-realtime reporting of electricity consumption, raising concerns about consumer privacy. Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as a viable privacy solution, where a calculated amount of noise is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Khadija Hafeez , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Sumita Mishra , Donna OShea

This paper addresses the challenge of balancing learner data privacy with the use of data in learning analytics (LA) by proposing a novel framework by applying Differential Privacy (DP). The need for more robust privacy protection keeps…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Qinyi Liu , Ronas Shakya , Mohammad Khalil , Jelena Jovanovic

This research addresses privacy protection in Natural Language Processing (NLP) by introducing a novel algorithm based on differential privacy, aimed at safeguarding user data in common applications such as chatbots, sentiment analysis, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Shaobo Liu , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Yuanshuai Luo , Linxiao Wu , Rui Wang

The randomized power method has gained significant interest due to its simplicity and efficient handling of large-scale spectral analysis and recommendation tasks. However, its application to large datasets containing personal information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Julien Nicolas , César Sabater , Mohamed Maouche , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Mark Coates

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

Quantum computing has been regarded as a promising approach to accelerate power system optimization. However, challenges such as limited qubits and inherent noise hinder their widespread adoption in power systems. In this paper, we propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Yuji Cao , Tongxin Li , Yue Chen