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We present three new algorithms for constructing differentially private synthetic data---a sanitized version of a sensitive dataset that approximately preserves the answers to a large collection of statistical queries. All three algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Giuseppe Vietri , Grace Tian , Mark Bun , Thomas Steinke , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving paradigm that trains neural networks on edge devices without collecting data at a central server. However, FL encounters an inherent challenge in dealing with non-independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Zijian Li , Yuchang Sun , Jiawei Shao , Yuyi Mao , Jessie Hui Wang , Jun Zhang

Machine Learning (ML) has achieved enormous success in solving a variety of problems in computer vision, speech recognition, object detection, to name a few. The principal reason for this success is the availability of huge datasets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Efstathia Soufleri , Gobinda Saha , Kaushik Roy

We present the Differentially Private Blockchain-Based Vertical Federal Learning (DP-BBVFL) algorithm that provides verifiability and privacy guarantees for decentralized applications. DP-BBVFL uses a smart contract to aggregate the feature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Linh Tran , Sanjay Chari , Md. Saikat Islam Khan , Aaron Zachariah , Stacy Patterson , Oshani Seneviratne

Recent advances in generating synthetic data that allow to add principled ways of protecting privacy -- such as Differential Privacy -- are a crucial step in sharing statistical information in a privacy preserving way. But while the focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-04 Christian Arnold , Marcel Neunhoeffer

Train machine learning models on sensitive user data has raised increasing privacy concerns in many areas. Federated learning is a popular approach for privacy protection that collects the local gradient information instead of real data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Lichao Sun , Jianwei Qian , Xun Chen

This paper proposes a locally differentially private federated learning algorithm for strongly convex but possibly nonsmooth problems that protects the gradients of each worker against an honest but curious server. The proposed algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jiaojiao Zhang , Dominik Fay , Mikael Johansson

Synthetic tabular data generation with differential privacy is a crucial problem to enable data sharing with formal privacy. Despite a rich history of methodological research and development, developing differentially private tabular data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Toan V. Tran , Li Xiong

How can we release a massive volume of sensitive data while mitigating privacy risks? Privacy-preserving data synthesis enables the data holder to outsource analytical tasks to an untrusted third party. The state-of-the-art approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shun Takagi , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Although differential privacy (DP) is widely regarded as the de facto standard for data privacy, its implementation remains vulnerable to unfaithful execution by servers, particularly in distributed settings. In such cases, servers may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Haochen Sun , Xi He

Federated learning allows multiple participants to conduct joint modeling without disclosing their local data. Vertical federated learning (VFL) handles the situation where participants share the same ID space and different feature spaces.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Yimin Huang , Xinyu Feng , Wanwan Wang , Hao He , Yukun Wang , Ming Yao

Machine learning practitioners frequently seek to leverage the most informative available data, without violating the data owner's privacy, when building predictive models. Differentially private data synthesis protects personal details…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Lucas Rosenblatt , Xiaoyan Liu , Samira Pouyanfar , Eduardo de Leon , Anuj Desai , Joshua Allen

As the prevalence of data analysis grows, safeguarding data privacy has become a paramount concern. Consequently, there has been an upsurge in the development of mechanisms aimed at privacy-preserving data analyses. However, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuzheng Hu , Fan Wu , Qinbin Li , Yunhui Long , Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Chang Ge , Bolin Ding , David Forsyth , Bo Li , Dawn Song

We consider a problem where mutually untrusting curators possess portions of a vertically partitioned database containing information about a set of individuals. The goal is to enable an authorized party to obtain aggregate (statistical)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-18 Bing-Rong Lin , Ye Wang , Shantanu Rane

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging machine learning paradigm designed to address the challenge of data silos, attracting considerable attention. However, FL encounters persistent issues related to fairness and data privacy. To tackle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xinpeng Ling , Jie Fu , Kuncan Wang , Huifa Li , Tong Cheng , Zhili Chen

Synthetic data has gained significant momentum thanks to sophisticated machine learning tools that enable the synthesis of high-dimensional datasets. However, many generation techniques do not give the data controller control over what…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Florimond Houssiau , Samuel N. Cohen , Lukasz Szpruch , Owen Daniel , Michaela G. Lawrence , Robin Mitra , Henry Wilde , Callum Mole

Federated learning has emerged as a powerful framework for analysing distributed data, yet two challenges remain pivotal: heterogeneity across sites and privacy of local data. In this paper, we address both challenges within a federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Mengchu Li , Ye Tian , Yang Feng , Yi Yu

Federated learning (FL) has been proposed to allow collaborative training of machine learning (ML) models among multiple parties where each party can keep its data private. In this paradigm, only model updates, such as model weights or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Runhua Xu , Nathalie Baracaldo , Yi Zhou , Ali Anwar , James Joshi , Heiko Ludwig

Benchmarking is crucial for evaluating a DBMS, yet existing benchmarks often fail to reflect the varied nature of user workloads. As a result, there is increasing momentum toward creating databases that incorporate real-world user data to…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Yunqing Ge , Jianbin Qin , Shuyuan Zheng , Yongrui Zhong , Bo Tang , Yu-Xuan Qiu , Rui Mao , Ye Yuan , Makoto Onizuka , Chuan Xiao

Differentially private (DP) tabular data synthesis generates artificial data that preserves the statistical properties of private data while safeguarding individual privacy. The emergence of diverse algorithms in recent years has introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Kai Chen , Xiaochen Li , Chen Gong , Ryan McKenna , Tianhao Wang