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Differential privacy is a modern approach in privacy-preserving data analysis to control the amount of information that can be inferred about an individual by querying a database. The most common techniques are based on the introduction of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Catuscia Palamidessi , Marco Stronati

Gaussian sketching, which consists of pre-multiplying the data with a random Gaussian matrix, is a widely used technique for multiple problems in data science and machine learning, with applications spanning computationally efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Omri Lev , Vishwak Srinivasan , Moshe Shenfeld , Katrina Ligett , Ayush Sekhari , Ashia C. Wilson

A common goal of privacy research is to release synthetic data that satisfies a formal privacy guarantee and can be used by an analyst in place of the original data. To achieve reasonable accuracy, a synthetic data set must be tuned to…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

Differentially private noise mechanisms commonly use symmetric noise distributions. This is attractive both for achieving the differential privacy definition, and for unbiased expectations in the noised answers. However, there are contexts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Benjamin M. Case , James Honaker , Mahnush Movahedi

The turnstile continual release model of differential privacy captures scenarios where a privacy-preserving real-time analysis is sought for a dataset evolving through additions and deletions. In typical applications of real-time data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rachel Cummings , Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Tamalika Mukherjee , Tingting Ou , Peilin Zhong

We study the problem of performing counting queries at different levels in hierarchical structures while preserving individuals' privacy. Motivated by applications, we propose a new error measure for this problem by considering a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Kewen Wu

Differential Privacy offers strong guarantees such as immutable privacy under post processing. Thus it is often looked to as a solution to learning on scattered and isolated data. This work focuses on supervised manifold learning, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Praneeth Vepakomma , Julia Balla , Ramesh Raskar

This paper studies the distributed least-squares optimization problem with differential privacy requirement of local cost functions, for which two differentially private distributed solvers are proposed. The first is established on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Weijia Liu , Lei Wang , Fanghong Guo , Zhengguang Wu , Hongye Su

Privacy preservation has become a critical concern in high-dimensional data analysis due to the growing prevalence of data-driven applications. Since its proposal, sliced inverse regression has emerged as a widely utilized statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang , Zhanrui Cai

The widespread acceptance of differential privacy has led to the publication of many sophisticated algorithms for protecting privacy. However, due to the subtle nature of this privacy definition, many such algorithms have bugs that make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Zeyu Ding , Yuxin Wang , Guanhong Wang , Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer

We study the computational cost of differential privacy in terms of memory efficiency. While the trade-off between accuracy and differential privacy is well-understood, the inherent cost of privacy regarding memory use remains largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alessandro Epasto , Xin Lyu , Pasin Manurangsi

We study the problem of estimating a set of $d$ linear queries with respect to some unknown distribution $\mathbf{p}$ over a domain $\mathcal{J}=[J]$ based on a sensitive data set of $n$ individuals under the constraint of local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Raef Bassily

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

In the recent decades, the advance of information technology and abundant personal data facilitate the application of algorithmic personalized pricing. However, this leads to the growing concern of potential violation of privacy due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-13 Xi Chen , Sentao Miao , Yining Wang

This work addresses the problem of revenue maximization in a repeated, unlimited supply item-pricing auction while preserving buyer privacy. We present a novel algorithm that provides differential privacy with respect to the buyer's input…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Joon Suk Huh

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms face the challenge of providing accurate results while protecting their inputs: the privacy-utility trade-off. A simple but powerful technique for DP adds noise to sensitivity-bounded query outputs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 David M. Sommer , Lukas Abfalterer , Sheila Zingg , Esfandiar Mohammadi

Decentralized optimization is gaining increased traction due to its widespread applications in large-scale machine learning and multi-agent systems. The same mechanism that enables its success, i.e., information sharing among participating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

With the growth of online social services, social information graphs are becoming increasingly complex. Privacy issues related to analyzing or publishing on social graphs are also becoming increasingly serious. Since the shortest paths play…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Weihong Sheng , Jiajun Chen , Chunqiang Hu , Bin Cai , Meng Han , Jiguo Yu

Hyperparameter tuning is a common practice in the application of machine learning but is a typically ignored aspect in the literature on privacy-preserving machine learning due to its negative effect on the overall privacy parameter. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Youlong Ding , Xueyang Wu

The exponential increase in the amount of available data makes taking advantage of them without violating users' privacy one of the fundamental problems of computer science. This question has been investigated thoroughly under the framework…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jakub Tětek