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We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes visible to a service provider while maintaining high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Peter Kairouz , Stefan Mellem , Adrià Gascón , Kallista Bonawitz , Deborah Estrin , Marco Gruteser

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a model where users send privatized data to an untrusted central server whose goal it to solve some data analysis task. In the non-interactive version of this model the protocol consists of a single round…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Yuval Dagan , Vitaly Feldman

The differentially private (DP) facility location problem seeks to determine a socially optimal placement for a public facility while ensuring that each participating agent's location remains private. To privatize its input data, a DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sara Fish , Yannai A. Gonczarowski , Jason Z. Tang , Salil Vadhan

When users make personal privacy choices, correlation between their data can cause inadvertent leakage about users who do not want to share their data by other users sharing their data. As a solution, we consider local redaction mechanisms.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Luis Maßny , Rawad Bitar , Fangwei Ye , Salim El Rouayheb

We study a multi-access variant of the popular coded caching framework, which consists of a central server with a catalog of $N$ files, $K$ caches with limited memory $M$, and $K$ users such that each user has access to $L$ consecutive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Kota Srinivas Reddy , Nikhil Karamchandani

We consider the setting of a master server who possesses confidential data (genomic, medical data, etc.) and wants to run intensive computations on it, as part of a machine learning algorithm for example. The master wants to distribute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Rawad Bitar , Parimal Parag , Salim El Rouayheb

With changes in privacy laws, there is often a hard requirement for client data to remain on the device rather than being sent to the server. Therefore, most processing happens on the device, and only an altered element is sent to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ajinkya K Mulay

We consider a private distributed multiplication problem involving N computation nodes and T colluding nodes. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm provides perfect information-theoretic privacy, while requiring an honest majority, i.e., N \ge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

The problem of data exchange involves a source schema, a target schema and a set of mappings from transforming the data between the two schemas. We study the problem of data exchange in the presence of privacy restrictions on the source.…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Angela Bonifati , Ugo Comignani , Efthymia Tsamoura

Privacy preservation has become a critical concern in high-dimensional data analysis due to the growing prevalence of data-driven applications. Since its proposal, sliced inverse regression has emerged as a widely utilized statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang , Zhanrui Cai

The smart meter (SM) privacy problem is addressed together with the cost of energy for the user. It is assumed that a storage device, e.g., an electrical battery, is available to the user, which can be utilized both to achieve privacy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Giulio Giaconi , Deniz Gunduz , H. Vincent Poor

Distributed storage systems (DSSs) provide a scalable solution for reliably storing massive amounts of data coming from various sources. Heterogeneity of these data sources often means different data classes (types) exist in a DSS, each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Koosha Pourtahmasi Roshandeh , Moslem Noori , Masoud Ardakani , Chintha Tellambura

This paper studies the fundamental tradeoff between storage and latency in a general wireless interference network with caches equipped at all transmitters and receivers. The tradeoff is characterized by an information-theoretic metric,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Fan Xu , Meixia Tao , Kangqi Liu

This paper considers the problem of multi-server Private Linear Computation, under the joint and individual privacy guarantees. In this problem, identical copies of a dataset comprised of $K$ messages are stored on $N$ non-colluding…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh

This work investigates the problem of cache-aided content Secure and demand Private Linear Function Retrieval (SP-LFR), where three constraints are imposed on the system:(a) each user is interested in retrieving an arbitrary linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Qifa Yan , Daniela Tuninetti

Federated Learning (FL) is a novel privacy-protection distributed machine learning paradigm that guarantees user privacy and prevents the risk of data leakage due to the advantage of the client's local training. Researchers have struggled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Kangkang Sun , Xiaojin Zhang , Xi Lin , Gaolei Li , Jing Wang , Jianhua Li

When collecting information, local differential privacy (LDP) relieves the concern of privacy leakage from users' perspective, as user's private information is randomized before sent to the aggregator. We study the problem of recovering the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Zitao Li , Tianhao Wang , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Boris Skoric , Ninghui Li

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving data collection in distributed systems, where users contribute multi-dimensional records with potentially correlated attributes. Recent work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sandaru Jayawardana , Sennur Ulukus , Ming Ding , Kanchana Thilakarathna

We consider a distributed optimal power flow formulated as an optimization problem that maximizes a nondifferentiable concave function. Solving such a problem by the existing distributed algorithms can lead to data privacy issues because…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

The leakage of data might have been an extreme effect on the personal level if it contains sensitive information. Common prevention methods like encryption-decryption, endpoint protection, intrusion detection system are prone to leakage.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Poushali Sengupta , Sudipta Paul , Subhankar Mishra