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Time series have numerous applications in finance, healthcare, IoT, and smart city. In many of these applications, time series typically contain personal data, so privacy infringement may occur if they are released directly to the public.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Yulian Mao , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Qi Wang , Kai Huang

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

Location data is collected from users continuously to understand their mobility patterns. Releasing the user trajectories may compromise user privacy. Therefore, the general practice is to release aggregated location datasets. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Ammar Haydari , Chen-Nee Chuah , Michael Zhang , Jane Macfarlane , Sean Peisert

Location-Based Services (LBSs) offer significant convenience to mobile users but pose significant privacy risks, as attackers can infer sensitive personal information through spatiotemporal correlations in user trajectories. Since users'…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Minghui Min , Jiahui Liu , Mingge Cao , Shiyin Li , Hongliang Zhang , Miao Pan , Zhu Han

Most deep learning frameworks require users to pool their local data or model updates to a trusted server to train or maintain a global model. The assumption of a trusted server who has access to user information is ill-suited in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lingjuan Lyu , Yitong Li , Xuanli He , Tong Xiao

Aggregating statistics over geographical regions is important for many applications, such as analyzing income, election results, and disease spread. However, the sensitive nature of this data necessitates strong privacy protections to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Aman Priyanshu , Yash Maurya , Suriya Ganesh , Vy Tran

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

Item mining, a fundamental task for collecting statistical data from users, has raised increasing privacy concerns. To address these concerns, local differential privacy (LDP) was proposed as a privacy-preserving technique. Existing LDP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yulian Mao , Qingqing Ye , Rong Du , Qi Wang , Kai Huang , Haibo Hu

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

We survey the literature on the privacy of trajectory micro-data, i.e., spatiotemporal information about the mobility of individuals, whose collection is becoming increasingly simple and frequent thanks to emerging information and…

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

Conformal prediction (CP) provides sets of candidate classes with a guaranteed probability of containing the true class. However, it typically relies on a calibration set with clean labels. We address privacy-sensitive scenarios where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Coby Penso , Bar Mahpud , Jacob Goldberger , Or Sheffet

Extended differential privacy, a generalization of standard differential privacy (DP) using a general metric, has been widely studied to provide rigorous privacy guarantees while keeping high utility. However, existing works on extended DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Natasha Fernandes , Yusuke Kawamoto , Takao Murakami

Collecting and analyzing evolving longitudinal data has become a common practice. One possible approach to protect the users' privacy in this context is to use local differential privacy (LDP) protocols, which ensure the privacy protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Héber H. Arcolezi , Carlos Pinzón , Catuscia Palamidessi , Sébastien Gambs

Data poisoning attacks aim to manipulate the model produced by a learning algorithm by adversarially modifying the training set. We consider differential privacy as a defensive measure against this type of attack. We show that such learners…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Yuzhe Ma , Xiaojin Zhu , Justin Hsu

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

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has become the de facto standard for privacy-preserving data collection in large-scale systems, in particular for the purpose of estimating frequencies. However, the current research landscape lacks a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ramon G. Gonze , Natasha Fernandes , Heber H. Arcolezi , Catuscia Palamidessi , Nataliia Bielova

The proliferation of streaming data analytics in data-driven applications raises critical privacy concerns, as directly collecting user data may compromise personal privacy. Although existing $w$-event local differential privacy (LDP)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Chang Liu , Junzhou Zhao

Density-adaptive domain discretization is essential for high-utility privacy-preserving analytics but remains challenging under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) due to the privacy-budget costs associated with iterative refinement. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alexey Kroshnin , Alexandra Suvorikova

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