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Large language models (LLMs) do not preserve privacy at inference-time. The LLM's outputs can inadvertently reveal information about the model's context, which presents a privacy challenge when the LLM is augmented via tools or databases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rushil Thareja , Preslav Nakov , Praneeth Vepakomma , Nils Lukas

Users can divulge sensitive information to proprietary LLM providers, raising significant privacy concerns. While open-source models, hosted locally on the user's machine, alleviate some concerns, models that users can host locally are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Li Siyan , Vethavikashini Chithrra Raghuram , Omar Khattab , Julia Hirschberg , Zhou Yu

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

Organizations often collect private data and release aggregate statistics for the public's benefit. If no steps toward preserving privacy are taken, adversaries may use released statistics to deduce unauthorized information about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Priyanka Nanayakkara , Johes Bater , Xi He , Jessica Hullman , Jennie Rogers

Quantum privacy comparison(QPC) plays an important role in secret ballot elections, private auctions and so on. To date, many multi-party QPC(MQPC) protocols have been proposed to compare the equality of $k(k\geq 3)$ participants. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-12 Hao Cao , Wenping Ma , Liangdong Lyu , Yefeng He , Ge Liu

Users of modern Machine Learning (ML) cloud services face a privacy conundrum -- on one hand, they may have concerns about sending private data to the service for inference, but on the other hand, for specialized models, there may be no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kexin Li , Aastha Mehta , David Lie

Preserving differential privacy has been well studied under centralized setting. However, it's very challenging to preserve differential privacy under multiparty setting, especially for the vertically partitioned case. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Depeng Xu , Shuhan Yuan , Xintao Wu

Private record linkage (PRL) is the problem of identifying pairs of records that are similar as per an input matching rule from databases held by two parties that do not trust one another. We identify three key desiderata that a PRL…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-04 Xi He , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Cheryl Flynn , Divesh Srivastava

The sensitivity metric in differential privacy, which is informally defined as the largest marginal change in output between neighboring databases, is of substantial significance in determining the accuracy of private data analyses.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Rachel Cummings , David Durfee

Differential Privacy (DP) is commonly employed to safeguard graph analysis or publishing. Distance, a critical factor in graph analysis, is typically handled using curator DP, where a trusted curator holds the complete neighbor lists of all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weihong Sheng , Jiajun Chen , Bin Cai , Chunqiang Hu , Meng Han , Jiguo Yu

Differential Privacy (DP) is the current gold-standard for ensuring privacy for statistical queries. Estimation problems under DP constraints appearing in the literature have largely focused on providing equal privacy to all users. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

The integration of Differential Privacy (DP) with diffusion models (DMs) presents a promising yet challenging frontier, particularly due to the substantial memorization capabilities of DMs that pose significant privacy risks. Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yu-Lin Tsai , Yizhe Li , Zekai Chen , Po-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Xuebin Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

Analytics on personal data, such as individuals' mobility, financial, and health data can be of significant benefit to society. Such data is already collected by smartphones, apps and services today, but liberal societies have so far…

Quantum computing revolutionizes the way of solving complex problems and handling vast datasets, which shows great potential to accelerate the machine learning process. However, data leakage in quantum machine learning (QML) may present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Keyi Ju , Xiaoqi Qin , Hui Zhong , Xinyue Zhang , Miao Pan , Baoling Liu

Quantum statistical queries provide a theoretical framework for investigating the computational power of a learner with limited quantum resources. This model is particularly relevant in the current context, where available quantum devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Armando Angrisani , Elham Kashefi

Data-driven advancements significantly contribute to societal progress, yet they also pose substantial risks to privacy. In this landscape, differential privacy (DP) has become a cornerstone in privacy preservation efforts. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sara Saeidian , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Privacy-preserving distributed average consensus has received significant attention recently due to its wide applicability. Based on the achieved performances, existing approaches can be broadly classified into perfect accuracy-prioritized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Milan Lopuhaa-Zwakenberg , Richard Heusdens

Differential privacy provides a theoretical framework for processing a dataset about $n$ users, in a way that the output reveals a minimal information about any single user. Such notion of privacy is usually ensured by noise-adding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Armando Angrisani , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi

Data collection under local differential privacy (LDP) has been mostly studied for homogeneous data. Real-world applications often involve a mixture of different data types such as key-value pairs, where the frequency of keys and mean of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Yueqiang Cheng , Li Xiong , Yang Cao

Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto standard for private data release and private machine learning. Auditing black-box DP algorithms and mechanisms to certify whether they satisfy a certain DP guarantee is challenging, especially in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Carles Domingo-Enrich , Youssef Mroueh