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Differential privacy is a notion of privacy that has become very popular in the database community. Roughly, the idea is that a randomized query mechanism provides sufficient privacy protection if the ratio between the probabilities of two…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-12-22 Mário S. Alvim , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Pierpaolo Degano , Catuscia Palamidessi

Differential privacy is a rigorous privacy condition achieved by randomizing query answers. This paper develops efficient algorithms for answering multiple queries under differential privacy with low error. We pursue this goal by advancing…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

With the fast evolution of large language models (LLMs), privacy concerns with user queries arise as they may contain sensitive information. Private inference based on homomorphic encryption (HE) has been proposed to protect user query…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Chenqi Lin , Tianshi Xu , Zebin Yang , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang , Meng Li

Talek is a private group messaging system that sends messages through potentially untrustworthy servers, while hiding both data content and the communication patterns among its users. Talek explores a new point in the design space of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Raymond Cheng , William Scott , Elisaweta Masserova , Irene Zhang , Vipul Goyal , Thomas Anderson , Arvind Krishnamurthy , Bryan Parno

We introduce a practical and scalable algorithm (PALMA) for solving one of the fundamental problems of multi-agent systems -- finding matches and allocations -- in unboundedly large settings (e.g., resource allocation in urban environments,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Panayiotis Danassis , Aleksei Triastcyn , Boi Faltings

We introduce an $(\epsilon, \delta)$-jointly differentially private algorithm for packing problems. Our algorithm not only achieves the optimal trade-off between the privacy parameter $\epsilon$ and the minimum supply requirement (up to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Zhiyi Huang , Xue Zhu

Differential privacy promises to enable general data analytics while protecting individual privacy, but existing differential privacy mechanisms do not support the wide variety of features and databases used in real-world SQL-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Noah Johnson , Joseph P. Near , Dawn Song

We propose a novel mechanism for answering sets of count- ing queries under differential privacy. Given a workload of counting queries, the mechanism automatically selects a different set of "strategy" queries to answer privately, using…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

Local differential privacy (LDP) enables the efficient release of aggregate statistics without having to trust the central server (aggregator), as in the central model of differential privacy, and simultaneously protects a client's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tariq Bontekoe , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Fatih Turkmen

We revisit the problem of accurately answering large classes of statistical queries while preserving differential privacy. Previous approaches to this problem have either been very general but have not had run-time polynomial in the size of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-30 Avrim Blum , Aaron Roth

Recently, private inference (PI) has addressed the rising concern over data and model privacy in machine learning inference as a service. However, existing PI frameworks suffer from high computational and communication costs due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yuke Zhang , Dake Chen , Souvik Kundu , Haomei Liu , Ruiheng Peng , Peter A. Beerel

The increased deployment of machine learning inference in various applications has sparked privacy concerns. In response, private inference (PI) protocols have been created to allow parties to perform inference without revealing their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiaqi Xue , Mengxin Zheng , Qian Lou

The exploitation of user search queries by search engines is at the heart of their economic model. As consequence, offering private Web search functionalities is essential to the users who care about their privacy. Nowadays, there exists no…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Antoine Boutet , Pascal Felber , Marcelo Pasin , Rafael Pires , Valerio Schiavoni

As organizations struggle with processing vast amounts of information, outsourcing sensitive data to third parties becomes a necessity. To protect the data, various cryptographic techniques are used in outsourced database systems to ensure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Dmytro Bogatov , Georgios Kellaris , George Kollios , Kobbi Nissim , Adam O'Neill

Despite much study, the computational complexity of differential privacy remains poorly understood. In this paper we consider the computational complexity of accurately answering a family $Q$ of statistical queries over a data universe $X$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Lucas Kowalczyk , Tal Malkin , Jonathan Ullman , Mark Zhandry

The existing peer-to-peer networks have several problems such as fake content distribution, free riding, white-washing and poor search scalability, lack of a robust trust model and absence of user privacy protection mechanism. Although,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jaydip Sen

We consider the problem of answering queries about a sensitive dataset subject to differential privacy. The queries may be chosen adversarially from a larger set Q of allowable queries in one of three ways, which we list in order from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-18 Mark Bun , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

Differential privacy (DP) allows data analysts to query databases that contain users' sensitive information while providing a quantifiable privacy guarantee to users. Recent interactive DP systems such as APEx provide accuracy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Miti Mazmudar , Thomas Humphries , Jiaxiang Liu , Matthew Rafuse , Xi He

In this paper, we consider the problem of responding to a count query (or any other integer-valued queries) evaluated on a dataset containing sensitive attributes. To protect the privacy of individuals in the dataset, a standard practice is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Parastoo Sadeghi , Shahab Asoodeh , Flavio du Pin Calmon

A vast amount of valuable data is produced and is becoming available for analysis as a result of advancements in smart cyber-physical systems. The data comes from various sources, such as healthcare, smart homes, smart vehicles, and often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-01 M. A. P. Chamikara , P. Bertok , D. Liu , S. Camtepe , I. Khalil