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Causal inference has received great attention across different fields from economics, statistics, education, medicine, to machine learning. Within this area, inferring causal effects at individual level in observational studies has become…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-02-16 Thai Pham

This work studies the estimation of many statistical quantiles under differential privacy. More precisely, given a distribution and access to i.i.d. samples from it, we study the estimation of the inverse of its cumulative distribution…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-27 Clément Lalanne , Aurélien Garivier , Rémi Gribonval

This paper presents a differentially private approach to Kaplan-Meier estimation that achieves accurate survival probability estimates while safeguarding individual privacy. The Kaplan-Meier estimator is widely used in survival analysis to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Narasimha Raghavan Veeraragavan , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Jan Franz Nygård

Machine learning models are vulnerable to data inference attacks, such as membership inference and model inversion attacks. In these types of breaches, an adversary attempts to infer a data record's membership in a dataset or even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Dayong Ye , Sheng Shen , Tianqing Zhu , Bo Liu , Wanlei Zhou

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Parameter estimation in statistics and system identification relies on data that may contain sensitive information. To protect this sensitive information, the notion of \emph{differential privacy} (DP) has been proposed, which enforces…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Braghadeesh Lakshminarayanan , Cristian R. Rojas

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

Popular approaches to differential privacy, such as the Laplace and exponential mechanisms, calibrate randomised smoothing through global sensitivity of the target non-private function. Bounding such sensitivity is often a prohibitively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Francesco Aldà

In many real-world applications of machine learning, data are distributed across many clients and cannot leave the devices they are stored on. Furthermore, each client's data, computational resources and communication constraints may be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-02 Mrinank Sharma , Michael Hutchinson , Siddharth Swaroop , Antti Honkela , Richard E. Turner

We provide computationally efficient, differentially private algorithms for the classical regression settings of Least Squares Fitting, Binary Regression and Linear Regression with unbounded covariates. Prior to our work, privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jason Milionis , Alkis Kalavasis , Dimitris Fotakis , Stratis Ioannidis

Differential privacy (DP) is a mathematical framework that guarantees individual privacy; however, systematic evaluation of its impact on statistical utility in survival analyses remains limited. In this study, we systematically evaluated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Keita Fukuyama , Yukiko Mori , Tomohiro Kuroda , Hiroaki Kikuchi

We consider the problem of Bayesian learning on sensitive datasets and present two simple but somewhat surprising results that connect Bayesian learning to "differential privacy:, a cryptographic approach to protect individual-level privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-14 Yu-Xiang Wang , Stephen E. Fienberg , Alex Smola

While pursuing better utility by discovering knowledge from the data, individual's privacy may be compromised during an analysis. To that end, differential privacy has been widely recognized as the state-of-the-art privacy notion. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Meisam Mohammady

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

The increasing prevalence of high-dimensional data across various applications has raised significant privacy concerns in statistical inference. In this paper, we propose a differentially private integrated statistic for testing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-04 Shiwei Sang , Yicheng Zeng , Xuehu Zhu , Shurong Zheng

In this work, we investigate binary classification under the constraints of both differential privacy and fairness. We first propose an algorithm based on the decoupling technique for learning a classifier with only fairness guarantee. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hrad Ghoukasian , Shahab Asoodeh

We consider the problem of collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific distributions. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yauhen Yakimenka , Chung-Wei Weng , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

The objective of machine learning is to extract useful information from data, while privacy is preserved by concealing information. Thus it seems hard to reconcile these competing interests. However, they frequently must be balanced when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Zhanglong Ji , Zachary C. Lipton , Charles Elkan

The tension between persuasion and privacy preservation is common in real-world settings. Online platforms should protect the privacy of web users whose data they collect, even as they seek to disclose information about these data to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yuqi Pan , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Haifeng Xu , Shuran Zheng

We present a method for producing unbiased parameter estimates and valid confidence intervals under the constraints of differential privacy, a formal framework for limiting individual information leakage from sensitive data. Prior work in…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-15 Christian Covington , Xi He , James Honaker , Gautam Kamath