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Differential privacy (DP) implementations are notoriously prone to errors, with subtle bugs frequently invalidating theoretical guarantees. Existing verification methods are often impractical: formal tools are too restrictive, while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Tudor Cebere , David Erb , Damien Desfontaines , Aurélien Bellet , Jack Fitzsimons

In differentially private (DP) machine learning, the privacy guarantees of DP mechanisms are often reported and compared on the basis of a single $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-pair. This practice overlooks that DP guarantees can vary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Georgios Kaissis , Stefan Kolek , Borja Balle , Jamie Hayes , Daniel Rueckert

To protect privacy for data-collection-based services, local differential privacy (LDP) is widely adopted due to its rigorous theoretical bound on privacy loss. However, mistakes in complex theoretical analysis or subtle implementation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Jingnan Xu , Leixia Wang , Xiaofeng Meng

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard for protecting sensitive data, providing strong guarantees that published statistics or models reveal limited information about any individual. However, privacy noise and restricted…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mariia Vologdin , Yuchao Tao , Amir Gilad

The dire need to protect sensitive data has led to various flavors of privacy definitions. Among these, Differential privacy (DP) is considered one of the most rigorous and secure notions of privacy, enabling data analysis while preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Amir Gilad , Tova Milo , Kathy Razmadze , Ron Zadicario

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion that restricts the privacy leakage of an algorithm when running on sensitive data, in which privacy-utility trade-off is one of the central problems in private data analysis. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bo Li , Wei Wang , Peng Ye

Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto notion of privacy both in theory and in practice. However, despite its popularity, DP imposes strict requirements which guard against strong worst-case scenarios. For example, it guards against…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guy Blanc , William Pires , Toniann Pitassi

Differential Privacy (DP) is an important privacy-enhancing technology for private machine learning systems. It allows to measure and bound the risk associated with an individual participation in a computation. However, it was recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Cuong Tran , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used approach for mitigating privacy risks when training machine learning models on sensitive data. DP mechanisms add noise during training to limit the risk of information leakage. The scale of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Bogdan Kulynych , Juan Felipe Gomez , Georgios Kaissis , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Carmela Troncoso

The task of statistical inference, which includes the building of confidence intervals and tests for parameters and effects of interest to a researcher, is still an open area of investigation in a differentially private (DP) setting.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-17 Ogonnaya Michael Romanus , Younes Boulaguiem , Roberto Molinari

State-of-the-art Differentially Private (DP) synthetic data generators such as MST and AIM are widely used, yet tightly auditing their privacy guarantees remains challenging. We introduce a Gaussian Differential Privacy (GDP)-based auditing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Georgi Ganev , Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Bogdan Kulynych

Differential privacy (DP) is the prevailing technique for protecting user data in machine learning models. However, deficits to this framework include a lack of clarity for selecting the privacy budget $\epsilon$ and a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Tyler LeBlond , Joseph Munoz , Fred Lu , Maya Fuchs , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Brian Testa

To resolve the acute problem of privacy protection and guarantee that data can be used in the context of threat intelligence, this paper considers the implementation of Differential Privacy (DP) in cybersecurity analytics. DP, which is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Brahim Khalil Sedraoui , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Amina Makhlouf , Chaouki Chemam

Differential privacy (DP) has become the standard for private data analysis. Certain machine learning applications only require privacy protection for specific protected attributes. Using naive variants of differential privacy in such use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Saeed Mahloujifar , Chuan Guo , G. Edward Suh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

In recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a technique of choice for privacy-preserving data collection in several scenarios when the aggregator is not trustworthy. LDP provides client-side privacy by adding noise at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Tejas Kulkarni , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

Differential privacy is becoming one gold standard for protecting the privacy of publicly shared data. It has been widely used in social science, data science, public health, information technology, and the U.S. decennial census.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Xuan Bi , Xiaotong Shen

Differential privacy (DP) has established itself as one of the standards for ensuring privacy of individual data. However, reasoning about DP is a challenging and error-prone task, hence methods for formal verification and refutation of DP…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Ehsan Kafshdar Goharshady , Đorđe Žikelić

This work proposes an algorithmic method to verify differential privacy for estimation mechanisms with performance guarantees. Differential privacy makes it hard to distinguish outputs of a mechanism produced by adjacent inputs. While…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-03 Yunhai Han , Sonia Martínez

Differential Privacy (DP) is the current gold-standard for ensuring privacy for statistical queries. Estimation problems under DP constraints appearing in the literature have largely focused on providing equal privacy to all users. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade