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Differential privacy (DP) provides a mathematical guarantee limiting what an adversary can learn about any individual from released data. However, achieving this protection typically requires adding noise, and noise can accumulate when many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Amir Asiaee , Chao Yan , Zachary B. Abrams , Bradley A. Malin

Differential privacy is a promising formal approach to data privacy, which provides a quantitative bound on the privacy cost of an algorithm that operates on sensitive information. Several tools have been developed for the formal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Gilles Barthe , Noémie Fong , Marco Gaboardi , Benjamin Grégoire , Justin Hsu , Pierre-Yves Strub

Standard differential privacy imposes uniform privacy constraints across all features, overlooking the inherent distinction between sensitive and insensitive features in practice. In this paper, we introduce a relaxed definition of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Tianyu Wang , Luhao Zhang , Rachel Cummings

We present a novel approach for differentially private data synthesis of protected tabular datasets, a relevant task in highly sensitive domains such as healthcare and government. Current state-of-the-art methods predominantly use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Konstantin Donhauser , Javier Abad , Neha Hulkund , Fanny Yang

When sharing data among researchers or releasing data for public use, there is a risk of exposing sensitive information of individuals in the data set. Data synthesis (DS) is a statistical disclosure limitation technique for releasing…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-01 Claire McKay Bowen , Fang Liu

As Deep Learning algorithms continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, they require massive datasets for model training and efficacy of models. Some of those data requirements can be met with the help of existing datasets within the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-07 Monik Raj Behera , Sudhir Upadhyay , Suresh Shetty , Sudha Priyadarshini , Palka Patel , Ker Farn Lee

Vertical federated learning (VFL) is a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm that can learn models from features distributed on different platforms in a privacy-preserving way. Since in real-world applications the data may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Tong Xu , Zhongliang Yang , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Differential privacy (DP) enables safe data release, with synthetic data generation emerging as a common approach in recent years. Yet standard synthesizers preserve all dependencies in the data, including spurious correlations between…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Naeim Ghahramanpour , Mostafa Milani

We present Poisson Binomial Mechanism Vertical Federated Learning (PBM-VFL), a communication-efficient Vertical Federated Learning algorithm with Differential Privacy guarantees. PBM-VFL combines Secure Multi-Party Computation with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Linh Tran , Timothy Castiglia , Stacy Patterson , Ana Milanova

We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes visible to a service provider while maintaining high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Peter Kairouz , Stefan Mellem , Adrià Gascón , Kallista Bonawitz , Deborah Estrin , Marco Gruteser

Traditional approaches to differential privacy assume a fixed privacy requirement $\epsilon$ for a computation, and attempt to maximize the accuracy of the computation subject to the privacy constraint. As differential privacy is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Katrina Ligett , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Bo Waggoner , Z. Steven Wu

Differential privacy is a popular privacy model within the research community because of the strong privacy guarantee it offers, namely that the presence or absence of any individual in a data set does not significantly influence the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Jordi Soria-Comas , Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , David Megías

In order to remain competitive, Internet companies collect and analyse user data for the purpose of improving user experiences. Frequency estimation is a widely used statistical tool which could potentially conflict with the relevant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mengmeng Yang , Ivan Tjuawinata , Kwok-Yan Lam , Tianqing Zhu , Jun Zhao

Federated learning (FL) enhanced by differential privacy has emerged as a popular approach to better safeguard the privacy of client-side data by protecting clients' contributions during the training process. Existing solutions typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Junxu Liu , Jian Lou , Li Xiong , Jinfei Liu , Xiaofeng Meng

As the demand for privacy in visual data management grows, safeguarding sensitive information has become a critical challenge. This paper addresses the need for privacy-preserving solutions in large-scale visual data processing by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Pedro Santos , Tânia Carvalho , Filipe Magalhães , Luís Antunes

In recent years, the financial sector has faced growing pressure to adopt advanced machine learning models to derive valuable insights while preserving data privacy. However, the highly sensitive nature of financial data presents…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Peilin He , Chenkai Lin , Isabella Montoya

Advances in communications, storage and computational technology allow significant quantities of data to be collected and processed by distributed devices. Combining the information from these endpoints can realize significant societal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Mary Scott , Graham Cormode , Carsten Maple

In the current artificial intelligence (AI) era, the scale and quality of the dataset play a crucial role in training a high-quality AI model. However, often original data cannot be shared due to privacy concerns and regulations. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Xun Yuan , Zilong Zhao , Prosanta Gope , Biplab Sikdar

Distributed machine learning has been widely studied in order to handle exploding amount of data. In this paper, we study an important yet less visited distributed learning problem where features are inherently distributed or vertically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Yaochen Hu , Peng Liu , Linglong Kong , Di Niu

Differential privacy (DP) data synthesizers support public release of sensitive information, offering theoretical guarantees for privacy but limited evidence of utility in practical settings. Utility is typically measured as the error on…