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Private decision tree evaluation (PDTE) allows a decision tree holder to run a secure protocol with a feature provider. By running the protocol, the feature provider will learn a classification result. Nothing more is revealed to either…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Jianli Bai , Xiangfu Song , Shujie Cui , Ee-Chien Chang , Giovanni Russello

Protecting the privacy of people whose data is used by machine learning algorithms is important. Differential Privacy is the appropriate mathematical framework for formal guarantees of privacy, and boosted decision trees are a popular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Vahid R. Asadi , Marco L. Carmosino , Mohammadmahdi Jahanara , Akbar Rafiey , Bahar Salamatian

A typical setup in many machine learning scenarios involves a server that holds a model and a user that possesses data, and the challenge is to perform inference while safeguarding the privacy of both parties. Private Inference has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zirui Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Rawad Bitar , Netanel Raviv

The privacy vulnerabilities of the federated learning (FL) paradigm, primarily caused by gradient leakage, have prompted the development of various defensive measures. Nonetheless, these solutions have predominantly been crafted for and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Abhinav Kumar , George Torres , Noah Guzinski , Gaurav Panwar , Reza Tourani , Satyajayant Misra , Marcin Spoczynski , Mona Vij , Nageen Himayat

Private inference refers to a two-party setting in which one has a model (e.g., a linear classifier), the other has data, and the model is to be applied over the data while safeguarding the privacy of both parties. In particular, models in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zirui Deng , Netanel Raviv

Most existing Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols for privacy-preserving training of decision trees over distributed data assume that the features are categorical. In real-life applications, features are often numerical. The…

Privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) have been proposed as a way to protect the privacy of data while still allowing for data analysis. In this work, we focus on Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a powerful tool that allows for arbitrary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Jordan Frery , Andrei Stoian , Roman Bredehoft , Luis Montero , Celia Kherfallah , Benoit Chevallier-Mames , Arthur Meyre

With the fast evolution of large language models (LLMs), privacy concerns with user queries arise as they may contain sensitive information. Private inference based on homomorphic encryption (HE) has been proposed to protect user query…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Chenqi Lin , Tianshi Xu , Zebin Yang , Runsheng Wang , Ru Huang , Meng Li

We introduce a deep learning framework able to deal with strong privacy constraints. Based on collaborative learning, differential privacy and homomorphic encryption, the proposed approach advances state-of-the-art of private deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Arnaud Grivet Sébert , Rafael Pinot , Martin Zuber , Cédric Gouy-Pailler , Renaud Sirdey

This paper proposes a client-server decision tree learning method for outsourced private data. The privacy model is anatomization/fragmentation: the server sees data values, but the link between sensitive and identifying information is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-20 Koray Mancuhan , Chris Clifton

The classification service over a stream of data is becoming an important offering for cloud providers, but users may encounter obstacles in providing sensitive data due to privacy concerns. While Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Qifan Wang , Shujie Cui , Lei Zhou , Ocean Wu , Yonghua Zhu , Giovanni Russello

Tree-based models are among the most efficient machine learning techniques for data mining nowadays due to their accuracy, interpretability, and simplicity. The recent orthogonal needs for more data and privacy protection call for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Sylvain Chatel , Apostolos Pyrgelis , Juan Ramon Troncoso-Pastoriza , Jean-Pierre Hubaux

When applying machine learning to sensitive data, one has to find a balance between accuracy, information security, and computational-complexity. Recent studies combined Homomorphic Encryption with neural networks to make inferences while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Alon Brutzkus , Oren Elisha , Ran Gilad-Bachrach

Random forests are widely used in fields involving sensitive tabular data, but existing approaches to enforcing differential privacy (DP) typically degrade performance to the point of impracticality. In this paper, we introduce Lumberjack,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Christian Janos Lebeda , David Erb , Tudor Cebere , Aurélien Bellet

We propose a practical methodology to protect a user's private data, when he wishes to publicly release data that is correlated with his private data, in the hope of getting some utility. Our approach relies on a general statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-28 Salman Salamatian , Amy Zhang , Flavio du Pin Calmon , Sandilya Bhamidipati , Nadia Fawaz , Branislav Kveton , Pedro Oliveira , Nina Taft

The growing popularity of cloud-based machine learning raises a natural question about the privacy guarantees that can be provided in such a setting. Our work tackles this problem in the context where a client wishes to classify private…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Chiraag Juvekar , Vinod Vaikuntanathan , Anantha Chandrakasan

With the increasing deployment of generative machine learning models in privacy-sensitive domains such as healthcare and personalized services, ensuring secure inference has become a critical challenge. Secure multi-party computation (MPC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Tianpei Lu , Bingsheng Zhang , Lekun Peng , Bowen Zheng , Lichun Li , Kui Ren

Differentially Private (DP) generative marginal models are often used in the wild to release synthetic tabular datasets in lieu of sensitive data while providing formal privacy guarantees. These models approximate low-dimensional marginals…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Georgi Ganev , Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Sofiane Mahiou , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Large language model (LLM) based services are primarily structured as client-server interactions, with clients sending queries directly to cloud providers that host LLMs. This approach currently compromises data privacy as all queries must…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Karthik Garimella , Negar Neda , Austin Ebel , Nandan Kumar Jha , Brandon Reagen

Internet of Things devices are expanding rapidly and generating huge amount of data. There is an increasing need to explore data collected from these devices. Collaborative learning provides a strategic solution for the Internet of Things…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Guanhong Miao