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In statistical learning and analysis from shared data, which is increasingly widely adopted in platforms such as federated learning and meta-learning, there are two major concerns: privacy and robustness. Each participating individual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Xiyang Liu , Weihao Kong , Sham Kakade , Sewoong Oh

The rapid developments of mobile devices and online social networks have resulted in increasing attention to Mobile Social Networking (MSN). The explosive growth of mobile-connected and location-aware devices makes it possible and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Ben Niu , Tanran Zhang , Xiaoyan Zhu , Hui Li , Zongqing Lu

Episode mining is a fundamental problem in analyzing a sequence of numerous events. For discovering strong relationships between events in a complex event sequence, episode rule mining is proposed. However, both the episode and episode…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Hong Lin , Wensheng Gan , Junyu Ren , Philip S. Yu

Discovering valuable insights from data through meaningful associations is a crucial task. However, it becomes challenging when trying to identify representative patterns in quantitative databases, especially with large datasets, as…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Lamine Diop , Marc Plantevit

We study the basic operation of set union in the global model of differential privacy. In this problem, we are given a universe $U$ of items, possibly of infinite size, and a database $D$ of users. Each user $i$ contributes a subset $W_i…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Sivakanth Gopi , Pankaj Gulhane , Janardhan Kulkarni , Judy Hanwen Shen , Milad Shokouhi , Sergey Yekhanin

Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) is critical to ensure data privacy in AI. Over the past few years, the community has proposed a wide range of provably secure PPML schemes that rely on various cryptography primitives. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Mengyu Zhang , Zhuotao Liu , Jingwen Huang , Xuanqi Liu

Recent advances in multi-modal Large Language Models (M-LLMs) have demonstrated a powerful ability to synthesize implicit information from disparate sources, including images and text. These resourceful data from social media also introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Junhao Li , Jiahao Chen , Zhou Feng , Chunyi Zhou

Machine learning has become a crucial part of our lives, with applications spanning nearly every aspect of our daily activities. However, using personal information in machine learning applications has sparked significant security and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Nges Brian Njungle , Eric Jahns , Luigi Mastromauro , Edwin P. Kayang , Milan Stojkov , Michel A. Kinsy

Discovering frequent graph patterns in a graph database offers valuable information in a variety of applications. However, if the graph dataset contains sensitive data of individuals such as mobile phone-call graphs and web-click graphs,…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Entong Shen , Ting Yu

We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data is used in $k$ steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of $t$ steps. This sampling scheme has been recently applied in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Vitaly Feldman , Moshe Shenfeld

Applying a randomized algorithm to a subset rather than the entire dataset amplifies privacy guarantees. We propose a class of subsampling methods ``MUltistage Sampling Technique (MUST)'' for privacy amplification (PA) in the context of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-05 Xingyuan Zhao , Ruyu Zhou , Fang Liu

The tuning of hyperparameters in distributed machine learning can substantially impact model performance. When the hyperparameters are tuned on sensitive data, privacy becomes an important challenge and to this end, differential privacy has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Johannes Liebenow , Thorsten Peinemann , Esfandiar Mohammadi

Using Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for machine learning often influences the characteristics of a machine learning approach, e.g., the needed computational power, timing of the answers or how the data can be utilized. When…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Sascha Löbner , Sebastian Pape , Vanessa Bracamonte , Kittiphop Phalakarn

For scalable machine learning on large data sets, subsampling a representative subset is a common approach for efficient model training. This is often achieved through importance sampling, whereby informative data points are sampled more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Dominik Fay , Sebastian Mair , Jens Sjölund

Public-use microdata samples (PUMS) from the United States (US) Census Bureau on individuals have been available for decades. However, large increases in computing power and the greater availability of Big Data have dramatically increased…

In the recent decade companies started collecting of large amount of data. Without a proper analyse, the data are usually useless. The field of analysing the data is called data mining. Unfortunately, the amount of data is quite large: the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Robert Kessl

Knowledge extraction from database is the fundamental task in database and data mining community, which has been applied to a wide range of real-world applications and situations. Different from the support-based mining models, the…

In this paper, we present an advanced analysis of near optimal algorithms that use limited space to solve the frequency estimation, heavy hitters, frequent items, and top-k approximation in the bounded deletion model. We define the family…

Local differential privacy has recently surfaced as a strong measure of privacy in contexts where personal information remains private even from data analysts. Working in a setting where both the data providers and data analysts want to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

Big data is a term used for a very large data sets that have many difficulties in storing and processing the data. Analysis this much amount of data will lead to information loss. The main goal of this paper is to share data in a way that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Jalpesh Vasa , Panthini Modi