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Consider two data providers, each maintaining private records of different feature sets about common entities. They aim to learn a linear model jointly in a federated setting, namely, data is local and a shared model is trained from locally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Stephen Hardy , Wilko Henecka , Hamish Ivey-Law , Richard Nock , Giorgio Patrini , Guillaume Smith , Brian Thorne

This work proposes a class of differentially private mechanisms for linear queries, in particular range queries, that leverages correlated input perturbation to simultaneously achieve unbiasedness, consistency, statistical transparency, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Prathamesh Dharangutte , Jie Gao , Ruobin Gong , Guanyang Wang

Among existing privacy-preserving approaches, Differential Privacy (DP) is a powerful tool that can provide privacy-preserving noisy query answers over statistical databases and has been widely adopted in many practical fields. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Hui Cao , Shubo Liu , Zhitao Guan , Longfei Wu , Haonan Deng , Xiaojiang Du

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

Collecting and analyzing massive data generated from smart devices have become increasingly pervasive in crowdsensing, which are the building blocks for data-driven decision-making. However, extensive statistics and analysis of such data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Teng Wang , Xuefeng Zhang , Jingyu Feng , Xinyu Yang

We introduce a refined differentially private (DP) data structure for kernel density estimation (KDE), offering not only improved privacy-utility tradeoff but also better efficiency over prior results. Specifically, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Erzhi Liu , Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Alex Reneau , Zhao Song , Han Liu

Aggregating statistics over geographical regions is important for many applications, such as analyzing income, election results, and disease spread. However, the sensitive nature of this data necessitates strong privacy protections to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Aman Priyanshu , Yash Maurya , Suriya Ganesh , Vy Tran

For evolving datasets with continual reports, the composition rule for differential privacy (DP) dictates that the scale of DP noise must grow linearly with the number of the queries, or that the privacy budget must be split equally between…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Farhad Farokhi

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) fine-tuning of large pre-trained models -- a recent privacy-preserving approach suitable for solving downstream tasks with sensitive data. Existing work has demonstrated that high accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhiqi Bu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Sheng Zha , George Karypis

Despite recent progress in enhancing the privacy of federated learning (FL) via differential privacy (DP), the trade-off of DP between privacy protection and performance is still underexplored for real-world medical scenario. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Meirui Jiang , Yuan Zhong , Anjie Le , Xiaoxiao Li , Qi Dou

This paper develops a networked federated learning algorithm to solve nonsmooth objective functions. To guarantee the confidentiality of the participants with respect to each other and potential eavesdroppers, we use the zero-concentrated…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-22 François Gauthier , Cristiano Gratton , Naveen K. D. Venkategowda , Stefan Werner

Existing quantum computers can only operate with hundreds of qubits in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) state, while quantum distributed computing (QDC) is regarded as a reliable way to address this limitation, allowing quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Hui Zhong , Keyi Ju , Jiachen Shen , Xinyue Zhang , Xiaoqi Qin , Tomoaki Ohtsuki , Miao Pan , Zhu Han

Federated learning enhanced with Differential Privacy (DP) is a powerful privacy-preserving strategy to protect individuals sharing their sensitive data for processing in fields such as medicine and healthcare. Many medical applications,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Anneliese Riess , Alexander Ziller , Stefan Kolek , Daniel Rueckert , Julia Schnabel , Georgios Kaissis

We give new mechanisms for answering exponentially many queries from multiple analysts on a private database, while protecting differential privacy both for the individuals in the database and for the analysts. That is, our mechanism's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Justin Hsu , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman

In this paper, we study the problem of federated learning over a wireless channel with user sampling, modeled by a Gaussian multiple access channel, subject to central and local differential privacy (DP/LDP) constraints. It has been shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Mohamed Seif , Wei-Ting Chang , Ravi Tandon

Recently differential privacy has been used for a number of streaming, data structure, and dynamic graph problems as a means of hiding the internal randomness of the data structure, so that multiple possibly adaptive queries can be made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shiyuan Feng , Ying Feng , George Z. Li , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Lichen Zhang

Clustering is a fundamental data processing task used for grouping records based on one or more features. In the vertically partitioned setting, data is distributed among entities, with each holding only a subset of those features. A key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Federico Mazzone , Trevor Brown , Florian Kerschbaum , Kevin H. Wilson , Maarten Everts , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter

Public intelligent services enabled by machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to model extraction attacks that can steal confidential information of the learning models through public queries. Though there are some protection options…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haonan Yan , Xiaoguang Li , Hui Li , Jiamin Li , Wenhai Sun , Fenghua Li

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

With the rapid digitalization of healthcare systems, there has been a substantial increase in the generation and sharing of private health data. Safeguarding patient information is essential for maintaining consumer trust and ensuring…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yazan Otoum , Amiya Nayak