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The differentiable programming paradigm is a cornerstone of modern scientific computing. It refers to numerical methods for computing the gradient of a numerical model's output. Many scientific models are based on differential equations,…

To make privacy a first-class citizen in software, we argue for equipping developers with usable tools, as well as providing support from organizations, educators, and regulators. We discuss the challenges with the successful integration of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Mohammad Tahaei , Kami Vaniea , Awais Rashid

Providing a provable privacy guarantees while maintaining the utility of data is a challenging task in many real-world applications. Recently, a new framework called One-Sided Differential Privacy (OSDP) was introduced that extends existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Phillip Lee , Kevin Smith

Since being proposed in 2006, differential privacy has become a standard method for quantifying certain risks in publishing or sharing analyses of sensitive data. At its heart, differential privacy measures risk in terms of the differences…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Anand D. Sarwate , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

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

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 this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for differential privacy over affine manifolds and validate its usefulness in the contexts of differentially private cloud-based control and average consensus. We consider differential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Deming Yuan , Guodong Shi

In previous work, we introduced the fundamentals and a supporting combinator library for \emph{strategic programming}. This an idiom for generic programming based on the notion of a \emph{functional strategy}: a first-class generic function…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ralf Laemmel , Joost Visser

Differentiable programming is the combination of classical neural networks modules with algorithmic ones in an end-to-end differentiable model. These new models, that use automatic differentiation to calculate gradients, have new learning…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-05-05 Adrián Hernández , José M. Amigó

Differential privacy is a precise mathematical constraint meant to ensure privacy of individual pieces of information in a database even while queries are being answered about the aggregate. Intuitively, one must come to terms with what…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Paul Cuff , Lanqing Yu

Differentially-private histograms have emerged as a key tool for location privacy. While past mechanisms have included theoretical & experimental analysis, it has recently been observed that much of the existing literature does not fully…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Maryam Fanaeepour , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein

The increasing adoption of differential privacy (DP) leads to public-facing DP deployments by both government agencies and companies. However, real-world DP deployments often do not fully disclose their privacy guarantees, which vary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Onyinye Dibia , Mengyi Lu , Prianka Bhattacharjee , Joseph P. Near , Yuanyuan Feng

Machine learning has become a crucial part of our lives, with applications spanning nearly every aspect of our daily activities. However, using personal information in machine learning applications has sparked significant security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nges Brian Njungle , Eric Jahns , Luigi Mastromauro , Edwin P. Kayang , Milan Stojkov , Michel A. Kinsy

The emergence of variational quantum applications has led to the development of automatic differentiation techniques in quantum computing. Recently, Zhu et al. (PLDI 2020) have formulated differentiable quantum programming with bounded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Wang Fang , Mingsheng Ying , Xiaodi Wu

With low-cost computing devices, improved sensor technology, and the proliferation of data-driven algorithms, we have more data than we know what to do with. In transportation, we are seeing a surge in spatiotemporal data collection. At the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Rahul Bhadani

When analysing Differentially Private (DP) machine learning pipelines, the potential privacy cost of data-dependent pre-processing is frequently overlooked in privacy accounting. In this work, we propose a general framework to evaluate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yaxi Hu , Amartya Sanyal , Bernhard Schölkopf

The purpose of this paper is to develop a mathematical analysis theory to solve differential privacy problems. The heart of our approaches is to use analytic tools to characterize the correlations among the outputs of different datasets,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Genqiang Wu , Xianyao Xia , Yeping He

Differential privacy has become the standard for private data analysis, and an extensive literature now offers differentially private solutions to a wide variety of problems. However, translating these solutions into practical systems often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Kareem Amin , Jennifer Gillenwater , Matthew Joseph , Alex Kulesza , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Differential privacy (DP) has a wide range of applications for protecting data privacy, but designing and verifying DP algorithms requires expert-level reasoning, creating a high barrier for non-expert practitioners. Prior works either rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Erchi Wang , Pengrun Huang , Eli Chien , Om Thakkar , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Yu-Xiang Wang , Ruihan Wu

We present PrivInfer, an expressive framework for writing and verifying differentially private Bayesian machine learning algorithms. Programs in PrivInfer are written in a rich functional probabilistic programming language with constructs…