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The private collection of multiple statistics from a population is a fundamental statistical problem. One possible approach to realize this is to rely on the local model of differential privacy (LDP). Numerous LDP protocols have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs , Jean-François Couchot , Catuscia Palamidessi

Density-adaptive domain discretization is essential for high-utility privacy-preserving analytics but remains challenging under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) due to the privacy-budget costs associated with iterative refinement. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alexey Kroshnin , Alexandra Suvorikova

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a strong notion of privacy for individual users that often comes at the expense of a significant drop in utility. The classical definition of LDP assumes that all elements in the data domain are equally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Jayadev Acharya , Keith Bonawitz , Peter Kairouz , Daniel Ramage , Ziteng Sun

Local differential privacy (LDP) can provide each user with strong privacy guarantees under untrusted data curators while ensuring accurate statistics derived from privatized data. Due to its powerfulness, LDP has been widely adopted to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Teng Wang , Jun Zhao , Xinyu Yang , Xuebin Ren

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can be used to provide personalized services, which rely on users' private and sensitive data. To protect the users' privacy, privacy-preserving RL algorithms are in demand. In this paper, we study RL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Chonghua Liao , Jiafan He , Quanquan Gu

The collection of individuals' data has become commonplace in many industries. Local differential privacy (LDP) offers a rigorous approach to preserving privacy whereby the individual privatises their data locally, allowing only their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alex Mansbridge , Gregory Barbour , Davide Piras , Michael Murray , Christopher Frye , Ilya Feige , David Barber

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

Differentially private distributed mean estimation (DP-DME) is a fundamental building block in privacy-preserving federated learning, where a central server estimates the mean of $d$-dimensional vectors held by $n$ users while ensuring…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Sajani Vithana , Viveck R. Cadambe , Flavio P. Calmon , Haewon Jeong

The emergence and evolution of Local Differential Privacy (LDP) and its various adaptations play a pivotal role in tackling privacy issues related to the vast amounts of data generated by intelligent devices, which are crucial for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Likun Qin , Tianshuo Qiu

Differential Privacy (DP) is a widely adopted standard for privacy-preserving data analysis, but it assumes a uniform privacy budget across all records, limiting its applicability when privacy requirements vary with data values. Per-record…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xinghe Chen , Dajun Sun , Quanqing Xu , Wei Dong

Local differential privacy (LDP) has recently gained prominence as a powerful paradigm for collecting and analyzing sensitive data from users' devices. However, the inherent perturbation added by LDP protocols reduces the utility of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Alireza Khodaie , Berkay Kemal Balioglu , Mehmet Emre Gursoy

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has emerged as a widely adopted privacy-preserving technique in modern data analytics, enabling users to share statistical insights while maintaining robust privacy guarantees. However, current LDP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Rong Du , Qingqing Ye , Yue Fu , Haibo Hu

In the recent decades, the advance of information technology and abundant personal data facilitate the application of algorithmic personalized pricing. However, this leads to the growing concern of potential violation of privacy due to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-13 Xi Chen , Sentao Miao , Yining Wang

For protecting users' private data, local differential privacy (LDP) has been leveraged to provide the privacy-preserving range query, thus supporting further statistical analysis. However, existing LDP-based range query approaches are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Linkang Du , Zhikun Zhang , Shaojie Bai , Changchang Liu , Shouling Ji , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

When collecting information, local differential privacy (LDP) alleviates privacy concerns of users because their private information is randomized before being sent it to the central aggregator. LDP imposes large amount of noise as each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tianhao Wang , Bolin Ding , Min Xu , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Jingren Zhou , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

Recent smart grid advancements enable near-realtime reporting of electricity consumption, raising concerns about consumer privacy. Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as a viable privacy solution, where a calculated amount of noise is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Khadija Hafeez , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Sumita Mishra , Donna OShea

Data engineering often requires accuracy (utility) constraints on results, posing significant challenges in designing differentially private (DP) mechanisms, particularly under stringent privacy parameter $\epsilon$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Bo Jiang , Wanrong Zhang , Donghang Lu , Jian Du , Sagar Sharma , Qiang Yan

Public intelligent services enabled by machine learning algorithms are vulnerable to model extraction attacks that can steal confidential information of the learning models through public queries. Though there are some protection options…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Haonan Yan , Xiaoguang Li , Hui Li , Jiamin Li , Wenhai Sun , Fenghua Li

Differential privacy (DP) has become the standard for private data analysis. Certain machine learning applications only require privacy protection for specific protected attributes. Using naive variants of differential privacy in such use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Saeed Mahloujifar , Chuan Guo , G. Edward Suh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

In recent years, local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a technique of choice for privacy-preserving data collection in several scenarios when the aggregator is not trustworthy. LDP provides client-side privacy by adding noise at…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-28 Tejas Kulkarni , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela