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Multiple testing is widely applied across scientific fields, particularly in genomic and health data analysis, where protecting sensitive personal information is imperative. However, developing private multiple testing algorithms for super…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-05 Kehan Wang , Wenxuan Song , Wangli Xu , Linglong Kong

Local differential privacy has recently surfaced as a strong measure of privacy in contexts where personal information remains private even from data analysts. Working in a setting where both the data providers and data analysts want to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

Learning a classifier from private data collected by multiple parties is an important problem that has many potential applications. How can we build an accurate and differentially private global classifier by combining locally-trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Jihun Hamm , Paul Cao , Mikhail Belkin

Data visualizations have been widely used on mobile devices like smartphones for various tasks (e.g., visualizing personal health and financial data), making it convenient for people to view such data anytime and anywhere. However, others…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Songheng Zhang , Dong Ma , Yong Wang

Aggregate time-series data like traffic flow and site occupancy repeatedly sample statistics from a population across time. Such data can be profoundly useful for understanding trends within a given population, but also pose a significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Tatsuki Koga , Casey Meehan , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Sampling is renowned for its privacy amplification in differential privacy (DP), and is often assumed to improve the utility of a DP mechanism by allowing a noise reduction. In this paper, we further show that this last assumption is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Àlex Miranda-Pascual , Javier Parra-Arnau , Thorsten Strufe

The growing richness of large-scale datasets has been crucial in driving the rapid advancement and wide adoption of machine learning technologies. The massive collection and usage of data, however, pose an increasing risk for people's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yizhuo Chen , Chun-Fu Chen , Hsiang Hsu , Shaohan Hu , Marco Pistoia , Tarek Abdelzaher

This paper investigates the privacy funnel, a privacy-utility tradeoff problem in which mutual information quantifies both privacy and utility. The objective is to maximize utility while adhering to a specified privacy budget. However, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Mohammad Amin Zarrabian , Parastoo Sadeghi

As network security monitoring grows more sophisticated, there is an increasing need for outsourcing such tasks to third-party analysts. However, organizations are usually reluctant to share their network traces due to privacy concerns over…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Meisam Mohammady , Lingyu Wang , Yuan Hong , Habib Louafi , Makan Pourzandi , Mourad Debbabi

User-driven privacy allows individuals to control whether and at what granularity their data is shared, leading to datasets that mix original, generalized, and missing values within the same records and attributes. While such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lucas Lange , Adrian Böttinger , Victor Christen , Anushka Vidanage , Peter Christen , Erhard Rahm

A recently proposed scheme utilizing local noise addition and matrix masking enables data collection while protecting individual privacy from all parties, including the central data manager. Statistical analysis of such privacy-preserved…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-24 Linh H Nghiem , Aidong A. Ding , Samuel Wu

This paper addresses privacy concerns in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), specifically within the context of supply chains where individual strategic data must remain confidential. Organizations within the supply chain are modeled…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Ananta Mukherjee , Peeyush Kumar , Boling Yang , Nishanth Chandran , Divya Gupta

Several companies (e.g., Meta, Google) have initiated "data-for-good" projects where aggregate location data are first sanitized and released publicly, which is useful to many applications in transportation, public health (e.g., COVID-19…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ritesh Ahuja , Sepanta Zeighami , Gabriel Ghinita , Cyrus Shahabi

Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) supports the integration of sensitive information from multiple datasets, in particular the privacy-preserving matching of records referring to the same entity. PPRL has gained much attention in many…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Dinusha Vatsalan , Peter Christen , Erhard Rahm

Preserving the individuals' privacy in sharing spatial-temporal datasets is critical to prevent re-identification attacks based on unique trajectories. Existing privacy techniques tend to propose ideal privacy-utility tradeoffs, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Yuting Zhan , Hamed Haddadi , Afra Mashhadi

Preserving the privacy of individuals by protecting their sensitive attributes is an important consideration during microdata release. However, it is equally important to preserve the quality or utility of the data for at least some…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Dennis Wei , Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy , Kush R. Varshney

A mechanism for releasing information about a statistical database with sensitive data must resolve a trade-off between utility and privacy. Privacy can be rigorously quantified using the framework of {\em differential privacy}, which…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-03-20 Arpita Ghosh , Tim Roughgarden , Mukund Sundararajan

Privacy-preserving utility mining (PPUM) aims to hide sensitive high-utility patterns while preserving the utility of the sanitized database. In practice, however, many datasets are associated with taxonomic information, which makes the…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Jiahong Cai , Wensheng Gan , Philip S. Yu

In recent years, there has been a surge in the development of models for the generation of synthetic mobility data. These models aim to facilitate the sharing of data while safeguarding privacy, all while ensuring high utility and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Alexandra Kapp , Helena Mihaljević

Precision medicine is a rapidly expanding area of health research wherein patient level information is used to inform treatment decisions. A statistical framework helps to formalize the individualization of treatment decisions that…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-23 Coraline Danieli , Erica Moodie