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We describe a new algorithm for answering a given set of range queries under $\epsilon$-differential privacy which often achieves substantially lower error than competing methods. Our algorithm satisfies differential privacy by adding noise…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Chao Li , Michael Hay , Gerome Miklau , Yue Wang

We propose, implement, and evaluate a new algorithm for releasing answers to very large numbers of statistical queries like $k$-way marginals, subject to differential privacy. Our algorithm makes adaptive use of a continuous relaxation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Sergul Aydore , William Brown , Michael Kearns , Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Luca Melis , Aaron Roth , Ankit Siva

We revisit one of the most basic and widely applicable techniques in the literature of differential privacy - the sparse vector technique [Dwork et al., STOC 2009]. This simple algorithm privately tests whether the value of a given query on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour , Uri Stemmer

The central building block of secure and privacy-preserving Vehicular Communication (VC) systems is a Vehicular Public-Key Infrastructure (VPKI), which provides vehicles with multiple anonymized credentials, termed pseudonyms. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Mohammad Khodaei , Hamid Noroozi , Panos Papadimitratos

We consider accurately answering smooth queries while preserving differential privacy. A query is said to be $K$-smooth if it is specified by a function defined on $[-1,1]^d$ whose partial derivatives up to order $K$ are all bounded. We…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-07 Chi Jin , Ziteng Wang , Junliang Huang , Yiqiao Zhong , Liwei Wang

The increase in the adoption of blockchain technology in different application domains e.g., healthcare systems, supplychain management, has raised the demand for a data query mechanism on blockchain. Since current blockchain systems lack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Nasrin Sohrabi , Norrathep Rattanavipanon , Zahir Tari

We study secure and privacy-preserving data analysis based on queries executed on samples from a dataset. Trusted execution environments (TEEs) can be used to protect the content of the data during query computation, while supporting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Sajin Sasy , Olga Ohrimenko

We study the problem of answering \emph{$k$-way marginal} queries on a database $D \in (\{0,1\}^d)^n$, while preserving differential privacy. The answer to a $k$-way marginal query is the fraction of the database's records $x \in \{0,1\}^d$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Justin Thaler , Jonathan Ullman , Andrew Wan

Online offerings such as web search, news portals, and e-commerce applications face the challenge of providing high-quality service to a large, heterogeneous user base. Recent efforts have highlighted the potential to improve performance by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Andreas Krause , Eric Horvitz

Many methods in differentially private model training rely on computing the similarity between a query point (such as public or synthetic data) and private data. We abstract out this common subroutine and study the following fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Arturs Backurs , Zinan Lin , Sepideh Mahabadi , Sandeep Silwal , Jakub Tarnawski

The demand private coded caching problem in a multi-access network with $K$ users and $K$ caches, where each user has access to $L$ neighbouring caches in a cyclic wrap-around manner, is studied. The additional constraint imposed is that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-02 K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

Privacy-preserving applications allow users to perform on-line daily actions without leaking sensitive information. Privacy-preserving scalar product is one of the critical algorithms in many private applications. The state-of-the-art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Yogachandran Rahulamathavan , Safak Dogan , Xiyu Shi , Rongxing Lu , Muttukrishnan Rajarajan , Ahmet Kondoz

The number and dynamic nature of web and mobile applications presents significant challenges for assessing their compliance with data protection laws. In this context, symbolic and statistical Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-22 David Rodriguez , Ian Yang , Jose M. Del Alamo , Norman Sadeh

Recently, parallel search engines have been implemented based on scalable distributed file systems such as Google File System. However, we claim that building a massively-parallel search engine using a parallel DBMS can be an attractive…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-08-22 Kyu-Young Whang , Tae-Seob Yun , Yeon-Mi Yeo , Il-Yeol Song , Hyuk-Yoon Kwon , In-Joong Kim

Many data applications involve counting queries, where a client specifies a feasible range of variables and a database returns the corresponding item counts. A program that produces the counts of different queries often risks leaking…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Jun Gao , Jie Ding

Local differential privacy (LDP) can provide each user with strong privacy guarantees under untrusted data curators while ensuring accurate statistics derived from privatized data. Due to its powerfulness, LDP has been widely adopted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Teng Wang , Jun Zhao , Xinyu Yang , Xuebin Ren

Cloud computing is emerging as a revolutionary computing paradigm, while security and privacy become major concerns in the cloud scenario. For which Searchable Encryption (SE) technology is proposed to support efficient retrieval of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Ruihui Zhao , Yuanliang Sun , Mizuho Iwaihara

Lack of trust between organisations and privacy concerns about their data are impediments to an otherwise potentially symbiotic joint data analysis. We propose DataRing, a data sharing system that allows mutually mistrusting participants to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Tham Nguyen , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Raghav Bhakar , Dali Kaafar , Farhad Farokhi

In recent years, there has been much research in Ranked Retrieval model in structured databases, especially those in web databases. With this model, a search query returns top-k tuples according to not just exact matches of selection…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Md Farhadur Rahman , Weimo Liu , Saravanan Thirumuruganathan , Nan Zhang , Gautam Das

In the past decade analysis of big data has proven to be extremely valuable in many contexts. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a state-of-the-art approach which allows statistical computations while protecting each individual user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Björn Bebensee