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Quantum computing offers unparalleled processing power but raises significant data privacy challenges. Quantum Differential Privacy (QDP) leverages inherent quantum noise to safeguard privacy, surpassing traditional DP. This paper develops…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Baobao Song , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Tianqing Zhu , Gang Li

Differential privacy for the 2020 census required an estimated 90 terabytes of randomness [GL20], an amount which may be prohibitively expensive or entirely infeasible to generate. Motivated by these practical concerns, [CSV25] initiated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Surendra Ghentiyala

We consider a sequential setting in which a single dataset of individuals is used to perform adaptively-chosen analyses, while ensuring that the differential privacy loss of each participant does not exceed a pre-specified privacy budget.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Vitaly Feldman , Tijana Zrnic

Anonymized data is highly valuable to both businesses and researchers. A large body of research has however shown the strong limits of the de-identification release-and-forget model, where data is anonymized and shared. This has led to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Andrea Gadotti , Florimond Houssiau , Luc Rocher , Benjamin Livshits , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

We propose a novel algorithm to ensure $\epsilon$-differential privacy for answering range queries on trajectory data. In order to guarantee privacy, differential privacy mechanisms add noise to either data or query, thus introducing errors…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Soheila Ghane , Lars Kulik , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

The emerging applications of machine learning algorithms on mobile devices motivate us to offload the computation tasks of training a model or deploying a trained one to the cloud or at the edge of the network. One of the major challenges…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-28 Hamidreza Ehteram , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Mahtab Mirmohseni

Imagine a group of citizens willing to collectively contribute their personal data for the common good to produce socially useful information, resulting from data analytics or machine learning computations. Sharing raw personal data with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Riad Ladjel , Nicolas Anciaux , Aurélien Bellet , Guillaume Scerri

We study the problem of counting the number of distinct elements in a dataset subject to the constraint of differential privacy. We consider the challenging setting of person-level DP (a.k.a. user-level DP) where each person may contribute…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Alexander Knop , Thomas Steinke

The problem of preserving the privacy of individual entries of a database when responding to linear or nonlinear queries with constrained additive noise is considered. For privacy protection, the response to the query is systematically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-30 Farhad Farokhi , Henrik Sandberg

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

In practice, differentially private data releases are designed to support a variety of applications. A data release is fit for use if it meets target accuracy requirements for each application. In this paper, we consider the problem of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yingtai Xiao , Zeyu Ding , Yuxin Wang , Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer

Sequential querying of differentially private mechanisms degrades the overall privacy level. In this paper, we answer the fundamental question of characterizing the level of overall privacy degradation as a function of the number of queries…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

Differential privacy comes equipped with multiple analytical tools for the design of private data analyses. One important tool is the so-called "privacy amplification by subsampling" principle, which ensures that a differentially private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Borja Balle , Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi

We propose a numerical accountant for evaluating the tight $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-privacy loss for algorithms with discrete one dimensional output. The method is based on the privacy loss distribution formalism and it uses the recently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-24 Antti Koskela , Joonas Jälkö , Lukas Prediger , Antti Honkela

We study the problem of maximizing privacy of quantized sensor measurements by adding random variables. In particular, we consider the setting where information about the state of a process is obtained using noisy sensor measurements. This…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Carlos Murguia , Iman Shames , Farhad Farokhi , Dragan Nesic

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

System logs constitute valuable information for analysis and diagnosis of system behavior. The size of parallel computing systems and the number of their components steadily increase. The volume of generated logs by the system is in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Siavash Ghiasvand , Florina M. Ciorba

Noise causes severe difficulties in implementing quantum computing and quantum cryptography. Several schemes have been suggested to reduce this problem, mainly focusing on quantum computation. Motivated by quantum cryptography, we suggest a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Mor

The main objective of data mining is to extract previously unknown patterns from large collection of data. With the rapid growth in hardware, software and networking technology there is outstanding growth in the amount data collection.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-27 P. Kamakshi , A. Vinaya Babu

Differential privacy allows quantifying privacy loss resulting from accessing sensitive personal data. Repeated accesses to underlying data incur increasing loss. Releasing data as privacy-preserving synthetic data would avoid this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Joonas Jälkö , Eemil Lagerspetz , Jari Haukka , Sasu Tarkoma , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski