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While federated learning (FL) eliminates the transmission of raw data over a network, it is still vulnerable to privacy breaches from the communicated model parameters. In this work, we propose Multi-Tier Federated Learning with Multi-Tier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Evan Chen , Frank Po-Chen Lin , Dong-Jun Han , Christopher G. Brinton

Proper communication is key to the adoption and implementation of differential privacy (DP). However, a prior study found that laypeople did not understand the data perturbation processes of DP and how DP noise protects their sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Aiping Xiong , Chuhao Wu , Tianhao Wang , Robert W. Proctor , Jeremiah Blocki , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

Trajectory data collection is a common task with many applications in our daily lives. Analyzing trajectory data enables service providers to enhance their services, which ultimately benefits users. However, directly collecting trajectory…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Yuemin Zhang , Qingqing Ye , Rui Chen , Haibo Hu , Qilong Han

In this paper, we present a notion of differential privacy (DP) for data that comes from different classes. Here, the class-membership is private information that needs to be protected. The proposed method is an output perturbation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Raksha Ramakrishna , Anna Scaglione , Tong Wu , Nikhil Ravi , Sean Peisert

The field of privacy-preserving Natural Language Processing has risen in popularity, particularly at a time when concerns about privacy grow with the proliferation of Large Language Models. One solution consistently appearing in recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Stephen Meisenbacher , Florian Matthes

Differentially Private (DP) data release is a promising technique to disseminate data without compromising the privacy of data subjects. However the majority of prior work has focused on scenarios where a single party owns all the data. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ruihan Wu , Xin Yang , Yuanshun Yao , Jiankai Sun , Tianyi Liu , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Chong Wang

Federated learning (FL) enables edge devices to collaboratively train machine learning models, with model communication replacing direct data uploading. While over-the-air model aggregation improves communication efficiency, uploading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hang Liu , Jia Yan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

In machine learning, privacy requirements at inference or deployment time often evolve due to changing policies, regulations, or user preferences. In this work, we aim to construct a magnitude of models to satisfy any target differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Qichuan Yin , Manzil Zaheer , Tian Li

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to statistically guarantee data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. While ensuring strong data privacy, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

Machine learning models are increasingly made available to the masses through public query interfaces. Recent academic work has demonstrated that malicious users who can query such models are able to infer sensitive information about…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Yunhui Long , Vincent Bindschaedler , Carl A. Gunter

Differential privacy (DP) has been widely used to protect the privacy of confidential cyber physical energy systems (CPES) data. However, applying DP without analyzing the utility, privacy, and security requirements can affect the data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Md Tamjid Hossain , Shahriar Badsha , Haoting Shen

The increased application of machine learning (ML) in sensitive domains requires protecting the training data through privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). DP requires to specify a uniform privacy level $\varepsilon$ that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Krishna Acharya , Franziska Boenisch , Rakshit Naidu , Juba Ziani

The central question studied in this paper is Renyi Differential Privacy (RDP) guarantees for general discrete local mechanisms in the shuffle privacy model. In the shuffle model, each of the $n$ clients randomizes its response using a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Antonious M. Girgis , Deepesh Data , Suhas Diggavi , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Peter Kairouz

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a recently proposed privacy standard for collecting and analyzing data, which has been used, e.g., in the Chrome browser, iOS and macOS. In LDP, each user perturbs her information locally, and only sends…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ning Wang , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Jun Zhao , Siu Cheung Hui , Hyejin Shin , Junbum Shin , Ge Yu

Models need to be trained with privacy-preserving learning algorithms to prevent leakage of possibly sensitive information contained in their training data. However, canonical algorithms like differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yannis Cattan , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Nicolas Papernot , Abhradeep Thakurta

Differential privacy is typically studied in the central model where a trusted "aggregator" holds the sensitive data of all the individuals and is responsible for protecting their privacy. A popular alternative is the local model in which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Thomas Steinke

The increasing availability of online and mobile information platforms is facilitating the development of peer-to-peer collaboration strategies in large-scale networks. These technologies are being leveraged by networked robotic systems to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Amanda Prorok , Vijay Kumar

Federated learning (FL) enables organizations to collaboratively train models without sharing their datasets. Despite this advantage, recent studies show that both client updates and the global model can leak private information, limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rouzbeh Behnia , Jeremiah Birrell , Arman Riasi , Reza Ebrahimi , Kaushik Dutta , Thang Hoang

Estimating causal effects from randomized experiments is only possible if participants are willing to disclose their potentially sensitive responses. Differential privacy, a widely used framework for ensuring an algorithms privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni , Jean Pouget-Abadie