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Organizations with a large user base, such as Samsung and Google, can potentially benefit from collecting and mining users' data. However, doing so raises privacy concerns, and risks accidental privacy breaches with serious consequences.…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Thông T. Nguyên , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Siu Cheung Hui , Hyejin Shin , Junbum Shin

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protects user privacy from the data collector. LDP protocols have been increasingly deployed in the industry. A basic building block is frequency oracle (FO) protocols, which estimate frequencies of values.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Tianhao Wang , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Zitao Li , Boris Skoric , Ninghui Li

Stream data from real-time distributed systems such as IoT, tele-health, and crowdsourcing has become an important data source. However, the collection and analysis of user-generated stream data raise privacy concerns due to the potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Rong Du , Qingqing Ye , Yaxin Xiao , Liantong Yu , Yue Fu , Haibo Hu

Local differential privacy is a widely studied restriction on distributed algorithms that collect aggregates about sensitive user data, and is now deployed in several large systems. We initiate a systematic study of a fundamental limitation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Albert Cheu , Adam Smith , Jonathan Ullman

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a rigorous framework for releasing statistics while protecting individual information present in a dataset. Although substantial progress has been made on differentially private linear regression, existing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Getoar Sopa , Marco Avella Medina , Cynthia Rush

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

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has emerged as a widely adopted privacy-preserving technique in modern data analytics, enabling users to share statistical insights while maintaining robust privacy guarantees. However, current LDP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Rong Du , Qingqing Ye , Yue Fu , Haibo Hu

Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By constructing random local aggregators, we propose a framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hanshen Xiao , Yu Ye , Srinivas Devadas

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is the predominant privacy model for safeguarding individual data privacy. Existing perturbation mechanisms typically require perturbing the original values to ensure acceptable privacy, which inevitably…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Qingqing Ye , Liantong Yu , Kai Huang , Xiaokui Xiao , Weiran Liu , Haibo Hu

Reconstruction attacks against federated learning (FL) aim to reconstruct users' samples through users' uploaded gradients. Local differential privacy (LDP) is regarded as an effective defense against various attacks, including sample…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Zhichao You , Xuewen Dong , Shujun Li , Ximeng Liu , Siqi Ma , Yulong Shen

In the evolving landscape of Federated Learning (FL), a new type of attacks concerns the research community, namely Data Poisoning Attacks, which threaten the model integrity by maliciously altering training data. This paper introduces a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Nick Galanis

Differential privacy protects an individual's privacy by perturbing data on an aggregated level (DP) or individual level (LDP). We report four online human-subject experiments investigating the effects of using different approaches to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Aiping Xiong , Tianhao Wang , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Differential Privacy (DP) is commonly employed to safeguard graph analysis or publishing. Distance, a critical factor in graph analysis, is typically handled using curator DP, where a trusted curator holds the complete neighbor lists of all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weihong Sheng , Jiajun Chen , Bin Cai , Chunqiang Hu , Meng Han , Jiguo Yu

Local differential privacy (LPD) is a distributed variant of differential privacy (DP) in which the obfuscation of the sensitive information is done at the level of the individual records, and in general it is used to sanitize data that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-04 Mário S. Alvim , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi , Anna Pazii

Differential privacy (DP) has arisen as the state-of-the-art metric for quantifying individual privacy when sensitive data are analyzed, and it is starting to see practical deployment in organizations such as the US Census Bureau, Apple,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sameer Wagh , Xi He , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Prateek Mittal

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protocols allow an aggregator to obtain population statistics about sensitive data of a userbase, while protecting the privacy of the individual users. To understand the tradeoff between aggregator utility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Boris Škorić , Ninghui Li

LDP (Local Differential Privacy) has recently attracted much attention as a metric of data privacy that prevents the inference of personal data from obfuscated data in the local model. However, there are scenarios in which the adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Takao Murakami , Kenta Takahashi

Differential privacy (DP) and local differential privacy (LPD) are frameworks to protect sensitive information in data collections. They are both based on obfuscation. In DP the noise is added to the result of queries on the dataset,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Natasha Fernandes , Kacem Lefki , Catuscia Palamidessi

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) has become an essential strategy for adapting them to specialized tasks; however, this process introduces significant privacy challenges, as sensitive training data may be inadvertently memorized and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Hao Du , Shang Liu , Yang Cao

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei