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The iterative consensus problem requires a set of processes or agents with different initial values, to interact and update their states to eventually converge to a common value. Protocols solving iterative consensus serve as building…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-10 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Geir Dullerud

Traditional approaches to differential privacy assume a fixed privacy requirement $\epsilon$ for a computation, and attempt to maximize the accuracy of the computation subject to the privacy constraint. As differential privacy is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-01 Katrina Ligett , Seth Neel , Aaron Roth , Bo Waggoner , Z. Steven Wu

Differential privacy is a notion that has emerged in the community of statistical databases, as a response to the problem of protecting the privacy of the database's participants when performing statistical queries. The idea is that a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Mário S. Alvim , Miguel E. Andrés , Konstantinos Chatzikokolakis , Catuscia Palamidessi

Federated analytics seeks to compute accurate statistics from data distributed across users' devices while providing a suitable privacy guarantee and being practically feasible to implement and scale. In this paper, we show how a strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Akash Bharadwaj , Graham Cormode

Automated decision systems are increasingly used to make consequential decisions in people's lives. Due to the sensitivity of the manipulated data as well as the resulting decisions, several ethical concerns need to be addressed for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Karima Makhlouf , Heber H. Arcolezi , Sami Zhioua , Ghassen Ben Brahim , Catuscia Palamidessi

We investigate how to optimally design local differential privacy (LDP) mechanisms that reduce data unfairness and thereby improve fairness in downstream classification. We first derive a closed-form optimal mechanism for binary sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Hrad Ghoukasian , Shahab Asoodeh

Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as a de facto standard privacy notion for a wide range of applications. Since the meaning of data utility in different applications may vastly differ, a key challenge is to find the optimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Meisam Mohammady , Shangyu Xie , Yuan Hong , Mengyuan Zhang , Lingyu Wang , Makan Pourzandi , Mourad Debbabi

Differential Privacy (DP) formalizes privacy in mathematical terms and provides a robust concept for privacy protection. DIfferentially Private Data Synthesis (DIPS) techniques produce and release synthetic individual-level data in the DP…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-22 Claire McKay Bowen , Fang Liu , Binyue Su

We propose a method for the release of differentially private synthetic datasets. In many contexts, data contain sensitive values which cannot be released in their original form in order to protect individuals' privacy. Synthetic data is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Joshua Snoke , Aleksandra Slavković

Differential privacy (DP) is widely employed to provide privacy protection for individuals by limiting information leakage from the aggregated data. Two well-known models of DP are the central model and the local model. The former requires…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Yucheng Fu , Tianhao Wang

Privacy concerns have led to a surge in the creation of synthetic datasets, with diffusion models emerging as a promising avenue. Although prior studies have performed empirical evaluations on these models, there has been a gap in providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Rongzhe Wei , Eleonora Kreačić , Haoyu Wang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Vamsi K. Potluru , Pan Li

Decisions about sharing personal information are not trivial, since there are many legitimate and important purposes for such data collection, but often the collected data can reveal sensitive information about individuals.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Daniel Franzen , Saskia Nuñez von Voigt , Peter Sörries , Florian Tschorsch , Claudia Müller-Birn

Data collected about individuals is regularly used to make decisions that impact those same individuals. We consider settings where sensitive personal data is used to decide who will receive resources or benefits. While it is well known…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Satya Kuppam , Ryan Mckenna , David Pujol , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Gerome Miklau

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

We study distributed estimation and learning problems in a networked environment where agents exchange information to estimate unknown statistical properties of random variables from their privately observed samples. The agents can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

Differential privacy (DP) data synthesizers support public release of sensitive information, offering theoretical guarantees for privacy but limited evidence of utility in practical settings. Utility is typically measured as the error on…

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely-accepted and widely-applied notion of privacy based on worst-case analysis. Often, DP classifies most mechanisms without additive noise as non-private (Dwork et al., 2014). Thus, additive noises are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ao Liu , Yu-Xiang Wang , Lirong Xia

In public health interventions such as distributing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, decision makers often use seeding algorithms to identify key individuals who can amplify intervention impact. However, building a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian , Fang-Yi Yu

Differential privacy (DP) enables private data analysis. In a typical DP deployment, controllers manage individuals' sensitive data and are responsible for answering analysts' queries while protecting individuals' privacy. They do so by…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiru Zhu , Raul Castro Fernandez

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee