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Differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous privacy guarantees on individual's data while also allowing for accurate statistics to be conducted on the overall, sensitive dataset. To design a private system, first private algorithms must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mark Cesar , Ryan Rogers

Differential privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee that prevents adversaries with access to machine learning models from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially private stochastic gradient descent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Jie Fu , Zhili Chen , XinPeng Ling

Dimension reduction is often an important step in the analysis of high-dimensional data. PCA is a popular technique to find the best low-dimensional approximation of high-dimensional data. However, classical PCA is very sensitive to…

Computation · Statistics 2019-01-14 Holger Cevallos-Valdiviezo , Stefan Van Aelst

Tuning the hyperparameters of differentially private (DP) machine learning (ML) algorithms often requires use of sensitive data and this may leak private information via hyperparameter values. Recently, Papernot and Steinke (2022) proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

Hyperparameter tuning is a key component of machine learning procedures, but when validation data contain sensitive user information, search mechanisms can leak private information through the selected configuration. Existing differentially…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-12 Getoar Sopa , Juraj Marusic , Marco Avella Medina , John P. Cunningham

Distributed aggregative optimization underpins many cooperative optimization and multi-agent control systems, where each agent's objective function depends both on its local optimization variable and an aggregate of all agents' optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Ziqin Chen , Yongqiang Wang

Differential privacy via output perturbation has been a de facto standard for releasing query or computation results on sensitive data. However, we identify that all existing Gaussian mechanisms suffer from the curse of full-rank covariance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Tianxi Ji , Pan Li

Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated definition of privacy which has gained significant attention over the past few years. Differentially private solutions enforce privacy by adding random noise to a function computed over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu

This paper proposes a differentially private recursive least squares algorithm to estimate the parameter of autoregressive systems with exogenous inputs and multi-participants (MP-ARX systems) and protect each participant's sensitive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Jianwei Tan , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

Constructing an efficient parameterization of a large, noisy data set of points lying close to a smooth manifold in high dimension remains a fundamental problem. One approach consists in recovering a local parameterization using the local…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-12-09 Daniel N. Kaslovsky , Francois G. Meyer

We study the problem of estimating the leading eigenvectors of a high-dimensional population covariance matrix based on independent Gaussian observations. We establish lower bounds on the rates of convergence of the estimators of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-07 Debashis Paul , Iain M. Johnstone

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a key tool in the field of data dimensionality reduction that is useful for various data science problems. However, many applications involve heterogeneous data that varies in quality due to noise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-14 Javier Salazar Cavazos , Jeffrey A. Fessler , Laura Balzano

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

We consider the problem of approximating a $d \times d$ covariance matrix $M$ with a rank-$k$ matrix under $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-differential privacy. We present and analyze a complex variant of the Gaussian mechanism and obtain upper…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Oren Mangoubi , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

User-level differentially private stochastic convex optimization (DP-SCO) has garnered significant attention due to the paramount importance of safeguarding user privacy in modern large-scale machine learning applications. Current methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Daogao Liu , Pasin Manurangsi

We present a federated, asynchronous, and $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithm for PCA in the memory-limited setting. Our algorithm incrementally computes local model updates using a streaming procedure and adaptively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Andreas Grammenos , Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith , Jon Crowcroft , Cecilia Mascolo

In the domain of deep learning, the challenge of protecting sensitive data while maintaining model utility is significant. Traditional Differential Privacy (DP) techniques such as Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Tao Huang , Qingyu Huang , Xin Shi , Jiayang Meng , Guolong Zheng , Xu Yang , Xun Yi

The emerging technologies for large scale data analysis raise new challenges to the security and privacy of sensitive user data. In this work we investigate the problem of private statistical analysis of time-series data in the distributed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Filipp Valovich , Francesco Aldà

How do statistical dependencies in measurement noise influence high-dimensional inference? To answer this, we study the paradigmatic spiked matrix model of principal components analysis (PCA), where a rank-one matrix is corrupted by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Jean Barbier , Francesco Camilli , Marco Mondelli , Manuel Saenz

Differential privacy schemes have been widely adopted in recent years to address issues of data privacy protection. We propose a new Gaussian scheme combining with another data protection technique, called random orthogonal matrix masking,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-13 A. Adam Ding , Samuel S. Wu , Guanhong Miao , Shigang Chen