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Differential privacy (DP) and local differential privacy (LPD) are frameworks to protect sensitive information in data collections. They are both based on obfuscation. In DP the noise is added to the result of queries on the dataset,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Natasha Fernandes , Kacem Lefki , Catuscia Palamidessi

This paper proposes a new distributed nonconvex stochastic optimization algorithm that can achieve privacy protection, communication efficiency and convergence simultaneously. Specifically, each node adds general privacy noises to its local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Jialong Chen , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

Behavioral data-enabled control approaches typically assume data-generating systems of linear dynamics. This may result in false generalization if the newly designed closed-loop system results in input-output distributional shifts beyond…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Mohammad Ramadan , Evan Toler , Mihai Anitescu

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has received considerable attention recently. The main purpose of these algorithms is to solve certain signal processing tasks over a network in a decentralised fashion without revealing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Sebastian O. Jordan , Qiongxiu Li , Richard Heusdens

Deep neural network controllers for autonomous driving have recently benefited from significant performance improvements, and have begun deployment in the real world. Prior to their widespread adoption, safety guarantees are needed on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Rhiannon Michelmore , Matthew Wicker , Luca Laurenti , Luca Cardelli , Yarin Gal , Marta Kwiatkowska

In settings like vaccination registries, individuals act after observing others, and the resulting public records can expose private information. We study privacy-preserving sequential learning, where agents add endogenous noise to their…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-03 Yuxin Liu , M. Amin Rahimian

Differential privacy, a notion of algorithmic stability, is a gold standard for measuring the additional risk an algorithm's output poses to the privacy of a single record in the dataset. Differential privacy is defined as the distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Jacob Imola , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

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

Differential privacy (DP) considers a scenario, where an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy thread for an individual in real life.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

The exponential growth of collected, processed, and shared data has given rise to concerns about individuals' privacy. Consequently, various laws and regulations have been established to oversee how organizations handle and safeguard data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Wenjun Lin , Jiahao Qian , Wenwen Liu , Lang Wu

It is known in the context of decentralised control that there exist control strategies consistent with the requirements of a given information structure, yet physically unimplementable through any amount of passive common randomness. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Shashank A. Deshpande , Ankur A. Kulkarni

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

Online collaborative medical prediction platforms offer convenience and real-time feedback by leveraging massive electronic health records. However, growing concerns about privacy and low prediction quality can deter patient participation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shao-Bo Lin , Xiaotong Liu , Yao Wang

Differentially Private (DP) generative marginal models are often used in the wild to release synthetic tabular datasets in lieu of sensitive data while providing formal privacy guarantees. These models approximate low-dimensional marginals…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Georgi Ganev , Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Sofiane Mahiou , Emiliano De Cristofaro

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

With the popularity of GPS-enabled devices, a huge amount of trajectory data has been continuously collected and a variety of location-based services have been developed that greatly benefit our daily life. However, the released…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Fengmei Jin , Wen Hua , Boyu Ruan , Xiaofang Zhou

Machine learning models have recently enjoyed a significant increase in size and popularity. However, this growth has created concerns about dataset privacy. To counteract data leakage, various privacy frameworks guarantee that the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Coleman DuPlessie , Aidan Gao

Controlling a fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles can be challenging due to low bandwidth communication between agents. This paper proposes to address this challenge by optimizing the quantization design of the communications between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-30 Yujia Yang , Ye Wang , Chris Manzie , Ye Pu

Wireless communication is essential to achieve coordinated control in vehicle platoons. However, packet losses in wireless communication can cause critical safety issues when they occur in conjunction with sudden brakes. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Yuhao Chen , Ahmet Cetinkaya

Privacy protection and uncertainty quantification are increasingly important in data-driven decision making. Conformal prediction provides finite-sample marginal coverage, but existing private approaches often rely on data splitting,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-10 Young Hyun Cho , Jordan Awan