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This paper proposes new methodologies for conducting practical differentially private (DP) estimation and inference in high-dimensional linear regression. We first introduce a DP Bayesian Information Criterion (DP-BIC) for selecting the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-13 Zhanrui Cai , Sai Li , Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang

The wide deployment of machine learning in recent years gives rise to a great demand for large-scale and high-dimensional data, for which the privacy raises serious concern. Differential privacy (DP) mechanisms are conventionally developed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Jungang Yang , Liyao Xiang , Weiting Li , Wei Liu , Xinbing Wang

The proliferation of digital technologies has led to unprecedented data collection, with facial data emerging as a particularly sensitive commodity. Companies are increasingly leveraging advanced facial recognition technologies, often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Lambert Hogenhout , Rinzin Wangmo

High-dimensional data are widely used in the era of deep learning with numerous applications. However, certain data which has sensitive information are not allowed to be shared without privacy protection. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Dongjie Chen , Sen-ching S. Cheung , Chen-Nee Chuah

The Gaussian Mechanism (GM), which consists in adding Gaussian noise to a vector-valued query before releasing it, is a standard privacy protection mechanism. In particular, given that the query respects some L2 sensitivity property (the L2…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Hadrien Hendrikx , Paul Mangold , Aurélien Bellet

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a key method for applying privacy in the training of deep learning models. It applies isotropic Gaussian noise to gradients during training, which can perturb these gradients in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Pedro Faustini , Natasha Fernandes , Shakila Tonni , Annabelle McIver , Mark Dras

The injection of heavy-tailed noise into the iterates of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has garnered growing interest in recent years due to its theoretical and empirical benefits for optimization and generalization. However, its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Umut Şimşekli , Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Sinan Yıldırım , Lingjiong Zhu

In recent years, the increasing availability of personal data has raised concerns regarding privacy and security. One of the critical processes to address these concerns is data anonymization, which aims to protect individual privacy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Fabio Hellmann , Silvan Mertes , Mohamed Benouis , Alexander Hustinx , Tzung-Chien Hsieh , Cristina Conati , Peter Krawitz , Elisabeth André

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used notion for reasoning about privacy when publishing aggregate data. In this paper, we observe that certain DP mechanisms are amenable to a posteriori privacy analysis that exploits the fact that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Valentin Hartmann , Vincent Bindschaedler , Alexander Bentkamp , Robert West

Recent advances in generative image editing have enabled transformative applications, from professional head shot generation to avatar stylization. However, these systems often require uploading high-fidelity facial images to third-party…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Dipesh Tamboli , Vineet Punyamoorty , Atharv Pawar , Vaneet Aggarwal

Characterizing the privacy degradation over compositions, i.e., privacy accounting, is a fundamental topic in differential privacy (DP) with many applications to differentially private machine learning and federated learning. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Yuqing Zhu , Jinshuo Dong , Yu-Xiang Wang

Building a recommendation system involves analyzing user data, which can potentially leak sensitive information about users. Anonymizing user data is often not sufficient for preserving user privacy. Motivated by this, we propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Sohan Salahuddin Mugdho , Hafiz Imtiaz

Spatiotemporal data is prevalent in a wide range of edge devices, such as those used in personal communication and financial transactions. Recent advancements have sparked a growing interest in integrating spatiotemporal analysis with…

Differential privacy (DP) provides robust privacy guarantees for statistical inference, but this can lead to unreliable results and biases in downstream applications. While several noise-aware approaches have been proposed which integrate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-29 Talal Alrawajfeh , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Honkela

Currently, the federated graph neural network (GNN) has attracted a lot of attention due to its wide applications in reality without violating the privacy regulations. Among all the privacy-preserving technologies, the differential privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Yeqing Qiu , Chenyu Huang , Jianzong Wang , Zhangcheng Huang , Jing Xiao

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

3D face recognition offers a robust biometric solution by capturing facial geometry, providing resilience to variations in illumination, pose changes, and presentation attacks. Its strong spoof resistance makes it suitable for high-security…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hichem Felouat , Hanrui Wang , Isao Echizen

Given a group size m and a sensitive dataset D, group privacy (GP) releases information about D with the guarantee that the adversary cannot infer with high confidence whether the underlying data is D or a neighboring dataset D' that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yangfan Jiang , Xinjian Luo , Yin Yang , Xiaokui Xiao

We leverage increasingly popular three-dimensional neural representations in order to construct a unified and consistent explanation of a collection of uncalibrated images of the human face. Our approach utilizes Gaussian Splatting, since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Haodi He , Jihun Yu , Ronald Fedkiw

Learning the similarity between structured data, especially the graphs, is one of the essential problems. Besides the approach like graph kernels, Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance recently draws big attention due to its flexibility to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hongwei Jin , Xun Chen