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Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protocols enable an untrusted data collector to perform privacy-preserving data analytics. In particular, each user locally perturbs its data to preserve privacy before sending it to the data collector, who…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Xiaoyu Cao , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

We propose a novel end-to-end privacy-preserving framework, instantiated by three efficient protocols for different deployment scenarios, covering both input and output privacy, for the vertically split scenario in federated learning (FL),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Shan Jin , Sai Rahul Rachuri , Yizhen Wang , Anderson C. A. Nascimento , Yiwei Cai

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

Multi-Party Quantum Computation (MPQC) has attracted a lot of attention as a potential killer-app for quantum networks through it's ability to preserve privacy and integrity of the highly valuable computations they would enable.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi , Luka Music , Harold Ollivier

In this work, we introduce a new approach for statistical quantification of differential privacy in a black box setting. We present estimators and confidence intervals for the optimal privacy parameter of a randomized algorithm $A$, as well…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Önder Askin , Tim Kutta , Holger Dette

Local differential privacy is a promising privacy-preserving model for statistical aggregation of user data that prevents user privacy leakage from the data aggregator. This paper focuses on the problem of estimating the distribution of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Ba Dung Le , Tanveer Zia

Differential Privacy (DP) has become a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. While it provides one of the most rigorous notions of privacy, there are many settings where its applicability is limited. Our main contribution is in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Aman Bansal , Rahul Chunduru , Deepesh Data , Manoj Prabhakaran

Cross-attention has emerged as a cornerstone module in modern artificial intelligence, underpinning critical applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), system prompting, and guided stable diffusion. However, this is a rising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yekun Ke , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang

Access to diverse, high-quality datasets is crucial for machine learning model performance, yet data sharing remains limited by privacy concerns and competitive interests, particularly in regulated domains like healthcare. This dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Keren Fuentes , Mimee Xu , Irene Chen

Privacy-preserving data mining has become an important topic. People have built several multi-party-computation (MPC)-based frameworks to provide theoretically guaranteed privacy, the poor performance of real-world algorithms have always…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Xiaoyu Fan , Guosai Wang , Kun Chen , Xu He , Wei Xu

Differential privacy (DP) offers strong theoretical privacy guarantees, but implementations of DP mechanisms may be vulnerable to side-channel attacks, such as timing attacks. When sampling methods such as MCMC or rejection sampling are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jordan Awan , Vinayak Rao

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

Recently, private inference (PI) has addressed the rising concern over data and model privacy in machine learning inference as a service. However, existing PI frameworks suffer from high computational and communication costs due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yuke Zhang , Dake Chen , Souvik Kundu , Haomei Liu , Ruiheng Peng , Peter A. Beerel

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard for protecting sensitive data, providing strong guarantees that published statistics or models reveal limited information about any individual. However, privacy noise and restricted…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mariia Vologdin , Yuchao Tao , Amir Gilad

Local differential privacy (LDP) has emerged as a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving data collection in distributed systems, where users contribute multi-dimensional records with potentially correlated attributes. Recent work has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sandaru Jayawardana , Sennur Ulukus , Ming Ding , Kanchana Thilakarathna

The growing volumes of data being collected and its analysis to provide better services are creating worries about digital privacy. To address privacy concerns and give practical solutions, the literature has relied on secure multiparty…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nishat Koti , Shravani Patil , Arpita Patra , Ajith Suresh

The rapid growth of smart devices such as phones, wearables, IoT sensors, and connected vehicles has led to an explosion of continuous time series data that offers valuable insights in healthcare, transportation, and more. However, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Bikash Chandra Singh , Md Jakir Hossain , Rafael Diaz , Sandip Roy , Ravi Mukkamala , Sachin Shetty

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

Differential privacy has emerged as the main definition for private data analysis and machine learning. The {\em global} model of differential privacy, which assumes that users trust the data collector, provides strong privacy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Joshua Allen , Bolin Ding , Janardhan Kulkarni , Harsha Nori , Olga Ohrimenko , Sergey Yekhanin

In recent years, Local Differential Privacy (LDP), a robust privacy-preserving methodology, has gained widespread adoption in real-world applications. With LDP, users can perturb their data on their devices before sending it out for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Karima Makhlouf , Catuscia Palamidessi