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We present a new algorithm for the widely used density-based clustering method DBscan. Our algorithm computes the DBscan-clustering in $O(n\log n)$ time in $\mathbb{R}^2$, irrespective of the scale parameter $\varepsilon$ (and assuming the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Mark de Berg , Ade Gunawan , Marcel Roeloffzen

Deep neural networks (DNNs) offer a means of addressing the challenging task of clustering high-dimensional data. DNNs can extract useful features, and so produce a lower dimensional representation, which is more amenable to clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Differential privacy enables organizations to collect accurate aggregates over sensitive data with strong, rigorous guarantees on individuals' privacy. Previous work has found that under differential privacy, computing multiple correlated…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-05-18 Ganzhao Yuan , Yin Yang , Zhenjie Zhang , Zhifeng Hao

Clustering is a fundamental data processing task used for grouping records based on one or more features. In the vertically partitioned setting, data is distributed among entities, with each holding only a subset of those features. A key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Federico Mazzone , Trevor Brown , Florian Kerschbaum , Kevin H. Wilson , Maarten Everts , Florian Hahn , Andreas Peter

Differentially private (DP) image synthesis aims to generate artificial images that retain the properties of sensitive images while protecting the privacy of individual images within the dataset. Despite recent advancements, we find that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chen Gong , Kecen Li , Zinan Lin , Tianhao Wang

Differential privacy (DP) has arisen as the state-of-the-art metric for quantifying individual privacy when sensitive data are analyzed, and it is starting to see practical deployment in organizations such as the US Census Bureau, Apple,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sameer Wagh , Xi He , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Prateek Mittal

Split learning is a distributed training framework that allows multiple parties to jointly train a machine learning model over vertically partitioned data (partitioned by attributes). The idea is that only intermediate computation results,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Xin Yang , Jiankai Sun , Yuanshun Yao , Junyuan Xie , Chong Wang

We study the task of training regression models with the guarantee of label differential privacy (DP). Based on a global prior distribution on label values, which could be obtained privately, we derive a label DP randomization mechanism…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Ethan Leeman , Pasin Manurangsi , Avinash V Varadarajan , Chiyuan Zhang

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) is the workhorse algorithm for recent advances in private deep learning. It provides a single privacy guarantee to all datapoints in the dataset. We propose output-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Da Yu , Gautam Kamath , Janardhan Kulkarni , Tie-Yan Liu , Jian Yin , Huishuai Zhang

We present new mechanisms for \emph{label differential privacy}, a relaxation of differentially private machine learning that only protects the privacy of the labels in the training set. Our mechanisms cluster the examples in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Umar Syed , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Mobile apps and location-based services generate large amounts of location data that can benefit research on traffic optimization, context-aware notifications and public health (e.g., spread of contagious diseases). To preserve individual…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Sepanta Zeighami , Ritesh Ahuja , Gabriel Ghinita , Cyrus Shahabi

We propose new differential privacy solutions for when external \emph{invariants} and \emph{integer} constraints are simultaneously enforced on the data product. These requirements arise in real world applications of private data curation,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Prathamesh Dharangutte , Jie Gao , Ruobin Gong , Fang-Yi Yu

We present a series of new differentially private (DP) algorithms with dimension-independent margin guarantees. For the family of linear hypotheses, we give a pure DP learning algorithm that benefits from relative deviation margin…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Raef Bassily , Mehryar Mohri , Ananda Theertha Suresh

Recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has been adopted by many web service providers like Google \cite{erlingsson2014rappor}, Apple \cite{apple2017privacy} and Microsoft \cite{bolin2017telemetry} to collect and analyse users' data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Zhongzheng Xiong , Jialin Sun , Xiaojun Mao , Jian Wang , Shan Ying , Zengfeng Huang

Surveys are an important tool for many areas of social science research, but privacy concerns can complicate the collection and analysis of survey data. Differentially private analyses of survey data can address these concerns, but at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Krystal Maughan , Joseph P. Near

We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes visible to a service provider while maintaining high…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Peter Kairouz , Stefan Mellem , Adrià Gascón , Kallista Bonawitz , Deborah Estrin , Marco Gruteser

This paper considers privacy-concerned distributed constraint-coupled resource allocation problems over an undirected network, where each agent holds a private cost function and obtains the solution via only local communication. With…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-05 Wenwen Wu , Shanying Zhu , Shuai Liu , Xinping Guan

Clustering and analyzing on collected data can improve user experiences and quality of services in big data, IoT applications. However, directly releasing original data brings potential privacy concerns, which raises challenges and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Lin Sun , Jun Zhao , Xiaojun Ye

A basic problem in the design of privacy-preserving algorithms is the private maximization problem: the goal is to pick an item from a universe that (approximately) maximizes a data-dependent function, all under the constraint of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu , Shuang Song

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent with Gradient Clipping (DPSGD-GC) is a powerful tool for training deep learning models using sensitive data, providing both a solid theoretical privacy guarantee and high efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xinwei Zhang , Zhiqi Bu , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Mingyi Hong