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This paper introduces the first provably accurate algorithms for differentially private, top-down decision tree learning in the distributed setting (Balcan et al., 2012). We propose DP-TopDown, a general privacy preserving decision tree…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Kaiwen Wang , Travis Dick , Maria-Florina Balcan

We initiate an investigation of node differential privacy for graphs in the local model of private data analysis. In our model, dubbed LNDP*, each node sees its own edge list and releases the output of a local randomizer on this input.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith , Connor Wagaman , Anatoly Zavyalov

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

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving data collection in distributed systems, where users contribute multi-dimensional records with potentially correlated attributes. Recent work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sandaru Jayawardana , Sennur Ulukus , Ming Ding , Kanchana Thilakarathna

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) provides provable privacy protection for data collection without the assumption of the trusted data server. In the real-world scenario, different data have different privacy requirements due to the distinct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong , Yang Cao

Creation of a synthetic dataset that faithfully represents the data distribution and simultaneously preserves privacy is a major research challenge. Many space partitioning based approaches have emerged in recent years for answering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Eleonora Kreačić , Navid Nouri , Vamsi K. Potluru , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

Recent smart grid advancements enable near-realtime reporting of electricity consumption, raising concerns about consumer privacy. Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as a viable privacy solution, where a calculated amount of noise is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Khadija Hafeez , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Sumita Mishra , Donna OShea

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a model where users send privatized data to an untrusted central server whose goal it to solve some data analysis task. In the non-interactive version of this model the protocol consists of a single round…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Yuval Dagan , Vitaly Feldman

Federated heavy hitter analytics enables service providers to better understand the preferences of cross-party users by analyzing the most frequent items. As with federated learning, it faces challenges of privacy concerns, statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Yuemin Zhang , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a strong notion of privacy for individual users that often comes at the expense of a significant drop in utility. The classical definition of LDP assumes that all elements in the data domain are equally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jayadev Acharya , Keith Bonawitz , Peter Kairouz , Daniel Ramage , Ziteng Sun

Metric Differential Privacy (mDP) generalizes Local Differential Privacy (LDP) by adapting privacy guarantees based on pairwise distances, enabling context-aware protection and improved utility. While existing optimization-based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Chenxi Qiu

We initiate a study of a query-driven approach to designing partition trees for range-searching problems. Our model assumes that a data structure is to be built for an unknown query distribution that we can access through a sampling oracle,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Dimitris Fotakis , Andreas Kalavas , Ioannis Psarros

The private collection of multiple statistics from a population is a fundamental statistical problem. One possible approach to realize this is to rely on the local model of differential privacy (LDP). Numerous LDP protocols have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs , Jean-François Couchot , Catuscia Palamidessi

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has been widely recognized as a powerful tool for providing a strong theoretical guarantee of data privacy to data contributors against an untrusted data collector. Under a typical LDP scheme, each data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Ye Zheng , Shafizur Rahman Seeam , Yidan Hu , Rui Zhang , Yanchao Zhang

The adoption of the distributed paradigm has allowed applications to increase their scalability, robustness and fault tolerance, but it has also complicated their structure, leading to an exponential growth of the applications'…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Ioannis Giannakopoulos , Dimitrios Tsoumakos , Nectarios Koziris

Time series have numerous applications in finance, healthcare, IoT, and smart city. In many of these applications, time series typically contain personal data, so privacy infringement may occur if they are released directly to the public.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Yulian Mao , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Qi Wang , Kai Huang

Local differential privacy (LDP), a technique applying unbiased statistical estimations instead of real data, is often adopted in data collection. In particular, this technique is used with frequency oracles (FO) because it can protect each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dan Zhao , Suyun Zhao , Ruixuan Liu , Cuiping Li , Wenjuan Liang , Hong Chen

Joint distribution estimation of a dataset under differential privacy is a fundamental problem for many privacy-focused applications, such as query answering, machine learning tasks and synthetic data generation. In this work, we examine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Yuchao Tao , Johes Bater , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

With the fast development of Information Technology, a tremendous amount of data have been generated and collected for research and analysis purposes. As an increasing number of users are growing concerned about their personal information,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Mengmeng Yang , Lingjuan Lyu , Jun Zhao , Tianqing Zhu , Kwok-Yan Lam

Given a set D of tuples defined on a domain Omega, we study differentially private algorithms for constructing a histogram over Omega to approximate the tuple distribution in D. Existing solutions for the problem mostly adopt a hierarchical…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Jun Zhang , Xiaokui Xiao , Xing Xie