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Differential privacy (DP) is a rigorous notion of data privacy, used for private statistics. The canonical algorithm for differentially private mean estimation is to first clip the samples to a bounded range and then add noise to their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Gautam Kamath , Argyris Mouzakis , Matthew Regehr , Vikrant Singhal , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

A privacy-utility tradeoff is developed for an arbitrary set of finite-alphabet source distributions. Privacy is quantified using differential privacy (DP), and utility is quantified using expected Hamming distortion maximized over the set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Kousha Kalantari , Lalitha Sankar , Anand Sarwate

Differential privacy is a notion of privacy that has become very popular in the database community. Roughly, the idea is that a randomized query mechanism provides sufficient privacy protection if the ratio between the probabilities that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-06-18 Mário S. Alvim , Miguel E. Andrés , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Pierpaolo Degano , Catuscia Palamidessi

In decision-making problems, the actions of an agent may reveal sensitive information that drives its decisions. For instance, a corporation's investment decisions may reveal its sensitive knowledge about market dynamics. To prevent this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Parham Gohari , Matthew Hale , Ufuk Topcu

Differential privacy has emerged as a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. A popular variant is local differential privacy, where the data holder is the trusted curator. A major barrier, however, towards a wider adoption of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Joseph Geumlek , Kamalika Chaudhuri

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

Information-theoretic (IT) measures based on $f$-divergences have recently gained interest as a measure of privacy leakage as they allow for trading off privacy against utility using only a single-value characterization. However, their…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Chong Xiao Wang , Wee Peng Tay

This paper investigates third-degree price discrimination under endogenous market segmentation. Segmenting a market requires access to information about consumers, and this information comes with a cost. I explore the trade-offs between the…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-06-11 Irfan Tekdir

The randomized power method has gained significant interest due to its simplicity and efficient handling of large-scale spectral analysis and recommendation tasks. However, its application to large datasets containing personal information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Julien Nicolas , César Sabater , Mohamed Maouche , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Mark Coates

A privacy-constrained information extraction problem is considered where for a pair of correlated discrete random variables $(X,Y)$ governed by a given joint distribution, an agent observes $Y$ and wants to convey to a potentially public…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-19 Shahab Asoodeh , Mario Diaz , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

Data mining has made broad significant multidisciplinary field used in vast application domains and extracts knowledge by identifying structural relationship among the objects in large data bases. Privacy preserving data mining is a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Pasupuleti Rajesh , Gugulothu Narsimha

This paper presents ongoing research focused on improving the utility of data protected by Global Differential Privacy(DP) in the scenario of summary statistics. Our approach is based on predictions on how an analyst will use statistics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Henry C. Nunes , Marlon P. da Silva , Charles V. Neu , Avelino F. Zorzo

Differential Privacy (DP) considers a scenario in which an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database. This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy threat faced by an individual in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

A monopolist offers personalized prices to consumers with unit demand, heterogeneous values, and idiosyncratic costs, who differ in a protected characteristic, such as race or gender. The seller is subject to a non-discrimination…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-27 Philipp Strack , Kai Hao Yang

Differential privacy is the gold standard for statistical data release. Used by governments, companies, and academics, its mathematically rigorous guarantees and worst-case assumptions on the strength and knowledge of attackers make it a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Kareem Amin , Alex Kulesza , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation is a practical method for improving access to data as a means to encourage productive partnerships. One issue inherent to DP is that the "privacy budget" is generally "spent" evenly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Lucas Rosenblatt , Joshua Allen , Julia Stoyanovich

We introduce $\pi$-test, a privacy-preserving algorithm for testing statistical independence between data distributed across multiple parties. Our algorithm relies on privately estimating the distance correlation between datasets, a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-28 Praneeth Vepakomma , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Clément L. Canonne , Ramesh Raskar , Alex Pentland

The leakage of data might have been an extreme effect on the personal level if it contains sensitive information. Common prevention methods like encryption-decryption, endpoint protection, intrusion detection system are prone to leakage.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Poushali Sengupta , Sudipta Paul , Subhankar Mishra

As the use of differential privacy (DP) becomes widespread, the development of effective tools for reasoning about the privacy guarantee becomes increasingly critical. In pursuit of this goal, we demonstrate novel relationships between DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zeki Kazan , Sagar Sharma , Wanrong Zhang , Bo Jiang , Qiang Yan

We consider the problem of collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific distributions. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yauhen Yakimenka , Chung-Wei Weng , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer