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We initiate the study of language generation in the limit, a model recently introduced by Kleinberg and Mullainathan [KM24], under the constraint of differential privacy. We consider the continual release model, where a generator must…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-10 Anay Mehrotra , Grigoris Velegkas , Xifan Yu , Felix Zhou

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that satisfy both a functional specification and an asymptotic resource bound. Prior methods for synthesis with a resource metric require the user to specify a concrete expression…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Qinheping Hu , John Cyphert , Loris D'Antoni , Thomas Reps

In this manuscript, we provide a set of tools (in terms of semidefinite programs) to synthesize Gaussian mechanisms to maximize privacy of databases. Information about the database is disclosed through queries requested by (potentially)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-30 Haleh Hayati , Carlos Murguia , Nathan van de Wouw

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Differential privacy provides the first theoretical foundation with provable privacy guarantee against adversaries with arbitrary prior knowledge. The main idea to achieve differential privacy is to inject random noise into statistical…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-11-01 Yang D. Li , Zhenjie Zhang , Marianne Winslett , Yin Yang

Convex programming with linear constraints plays an important role in the operation of a number of everyday systems. However, absent any additional protections, revealing or acting on the solutions to such problems may reveal information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-16 Alexander Benvenuti , Brendan Bialy , Miriam Dennis , Matthew Hale

The problem of secret-key based authentication under privacy and storage constraints on the source sequence is considered. The identifier measurement channels during authentication are assumed to be controllable via a cost-constrained…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Onur Günlü , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

This paper addresses the challenge of privacy preservation for statistical inputs in dynamical systems. Motivated by an autonomous building application, we formulate a privacy preservation problem for statistical inputs in linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Le Liu , Yu Kawano , Ming Cao

When analysing Differentially Private (DP) machine learning pipelines, the potential privacy cost of data-dependent pre-processing is frequently overlooked in privacy accounting. In this work, we propose a general framework to evaluate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yaxi Hu , Amartya Sanyal , Bernhard Schölkopf

Synthetic data have gained increasing attention across various domains, with a growing emphasis on their performance in downstream prediction tasks. However, most existing synthesis strategies focus on maintaining statistical information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xiaotong Liu , Shao-Bo Lin , Jun Fan , Ding-Xuan Zhou

A critically important component of most signal processing procedures is that of computing the distance between signals. In multi-party processing applications where these signals belong to different parties, this introduces privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Abelino Jimenez , Bhiksha Raj

This paper is concerned with the security problem for interconnected systems, where each subsystem is required to detect local attacks using locally available information and the information received from its neighboring subsystems.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Haojun Wang , Kun Liu , Baojia Li , Emilia Fridman , Yuanqing Xia

Synthetic data has been advertised as a silver-bullet solution to privacy-preserving data publishing that addresses the shortcomings of traditional anonymisation techniques. The promise is that synthetic data drawn from generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Theresa Stadler , Bristena Oprisanu , Carmela Troncoso

The design of complex Systems-on-Chips implies to take into account communication and memory access constraints for the integration of dedicated hardware accelerator. In this paper, we present a methodology and a tool that allow the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Philippe Coussy , Gwenolé Corre , Pierre Bomel , Eric Senn , Eric Martin

We study the problem of maximizing privacy of data sets by adding random vectors generated via synchronized chaotic oscillators. In particular, we consider the setup where information about data sets, queries, is sent through public…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Farhad Farokhi , Dragan Nesic

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

Automatic synthesis from temporal logic specifications is an attractive alternative to manual system design, due to its ability to generate correct-by-construction implementations from high-level specifications. Due to the high complexity…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Philippe Heim , Rayna Dimitrova

We propose a Bayesian pseudo posterior mechanism to generate record-level synthetic databases equipped with an $(\epsilon,\delta)-$ probabilistic differential privacy (pDP) guarantee, where $\delta$ denotes the probability that any observed…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-08-17 Terrance D. Savitsky , Matthew R. Williams , Jingchen Hu

Contract automata allow to formally define the behaviour of service contracts in terms of service offers and requests, some of which are moreover optional and some of which are necessary. A composition of contracts is said to be in…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Davide Basile , Maurice H. ter Beek

We present an approach for generating differentially private synthetic text using large language models (LLMs), via private prediction. In the private prediction framework, we only require the output synthetic data to satisfy differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Kareem Amin , Alex Bie , Weiwei Kong , Alexey Kurakin , Natalia Ponomareva , Umar Syed , Andreas Terzis , Sergei Vassilvitskii