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Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a robust framework for privacy-preserving data releases and has been successfully applied in high-profile cases, such as the 2020 US Census. However, in organizational settings, the use of DP remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nicolas Küchler , Alexander Viand , Hidde Lycklama , Anwar Hithnawi

Proper communication is key to the adoption and implementation of differential privacy (DP). However, a prior study found that laypeople did not understand the data perturbation processes of DP and how DP noise protects their sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Aiping Xiong , Chuhao Wu , Tianhao Wang , Robert W. Proctor , Jeremiah Blocki , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Differential privacy (DP) defines privacy protection by promising quantified indistinguishability between individuals that consent to share their privacy-sensitive information and the ones that do not. DP aims to deliver this promise by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Shiliang Zhang , Anton Hagermalm , Sanjin Slavnic , Elad Michael Schiller , Magnus Almgren

Differential privacy (DP) is a compelling privacy definition that explains the privacy-utility tradeoff via formal, provable guarantees. Inspired by recent progress toward general-purpose data release algorithms, we propose a private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

Data engineering often requires accuracy (utility) constraints on results, posing significant challenges in designing differentially private (DP) mechanisms, particularly under stringent privacy parameter $\epsilon$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Bo Jiang , Wanrong Zhang , Donghang Lu , Jian Du , Sagar Sharma , Qiang Yan

This study aims to alleviate the trade-off between utility and privacy of differentially private clustering. Existing works focus on simple methods, which show poor performance for non-convex clusters. To fit complex cluster distributions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Junyoung Byun , Yujin Choi , Jaewook Lee

Differential privacy has emerged as the main definition for private data analysis and machine learning. The {\em global} model of differential privacy, which assumes that users trust the data collector, provides strong privacy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Joshua Allen , Bolin Ding , Janardhan Kulkarni , Harsha Nori , Olga Ohrimenko , Sergey Yekhanin

Differential privacy (DP) is a neat privacy definition that can co-exist with certain well-defined data uses in the context of interactive queries. However, DP is neither a silver bullet for all privacy problems nor a replacement for all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , David Sánchez , Alberto Blanco-Justicia

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

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

Nowadays, machine learning models and applications have become increasingly pervasive. With this rapid increase in the development and employment of machine learning models, a concern regarding privacy has risen. Thus, there is a legitimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Samah Baraheem , Zhongmei Yao

Black-box machine learning models are used in critical decision-making domains, giving rise to several calls for more algorithmic transparency. The drawback is that model explanations can leak information about the training data and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Neel Patel , Reza Shokri , Yair Zick

Machine Learning (ML) models integrated with in-situ sensing offer transformative solutions for defect detection in Additive Manufacturing (AM), but this integration brings critical challenges in safeguarding sensitive data, such as part…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Fardin Jalil Piran , Prathyush P. Poduval , Hamza Errahmouni Barkam , Mohsen Imani , Farhad Imani

Large organizations that collect data about populations (like the US Census Bureau) release summary statistics that are used by multiple stakeholders for resource allocation and policy making problems. These organizations are also legally…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-08 David Pujol , Yikai Wu , Brandon Fain , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

The Bloom filter is a simple yet space-efficient probabilistic data structure that supports membership queries for dramatically large datasets. It is widely utilized and implemented across various industrial scenarios, often handling…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yekun Ke , Yingyu Liang , Zhizhou Sha , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang

In this work, we propose the first framework for integrating Differential Privacy (DP) and Contextual Integrity (CI). DP is a property of an algorithm that injects statistical noise to obscure information about individuals represented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Sebastian Benthall , Rachel Cummings

The standard definition of differential privacy (DP) ensures that a mechanism's output distribution on adjacent datasets is indistinguishable. However, real-world implementations of DP can, and often do, reveal information through their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zachary Ratliff , Salil Vadhan

Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server, but it remains vulnerable to privacy leakage because shared model updates can expose sensitive information through inversion,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Fardin Jalil Piran , Zhiling Chen , Yang Zhang , Qianyu Zhou , Jiong Tang , Farhad Imani

Differential privacy is a precise mathematical constraint meant to ensure privacy of individual pieces of information in a database even while queries are being answered about the aggregate. Intuitively, one must come to terms with what…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Paul Cuff , Lanqing Yu

Graph clustering under the framework of differential privacy, which aims to process graph-structured data while protecting individual privacy, has been receiving increasing attention. Despite significant achievements in current research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Haochen You , Baojing Liu