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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

Locally Differentially Private (LDP) Reports are commonly used for collection of statistics and machine learning in the federated setting. In many cases the best known LDP algorithms require sending prohibitively large messages from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Vitaly Feldman , Kunal Talwar

In this paper, we study the problem of estimating smooth Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) in the Non-interactive Local Differential Privacy (NLDP) model. Different from its classical setting, our model allows the server to access some…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Di Wang , Lijie Hu , Huanyu Zhang , Marco Gaboardi , Jinhui Xu

Analyzing data owned by several parties while achieving a good trade-off between utility and privacy is a key challenge in federated learning and analytics. In this work, we introduce a novel relaxation of local differential privacy (LDP)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Edwige Cyffers , Aurélien Bellet

We study mechanisms for differential privacy on finite datasets. By deriving \emph{sufficient sets} for differential privacy we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for differential privacy, a tight lower bound on the maximal expected…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Naoise Holohan , Doug Leith , Oliver Mason

The proliferation of streaming data analytics in data-driven applications raises critical privacy concerns, as directly collecting user data may compromise personal privacy. Although existing $w$-event local differential privacy (LDP)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Chang Liu , Junzhou Zhao

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into real-time machine learning applications, where safeguarding user privacy is paramount. Traditional differential privacy mechanisms often struggle to balance privacy and accuracy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jessica Smith , David Williams , Emily Brown

A common problem in private data analysis is the partition selection problem, where each user holds a set of partitions (e.g. keys in a GROUP BY operation) from a possibly unbounded set. The challenge here is in maximizing the set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Charlie Harrison , Pasin Manurangsi

We study person-level differentially private (DP) mean estimation in the case where each person holds multiple samples. DP here requires the usual notion of distributional stability when $\textit{all}$ of a person's datapoints can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sushant Agarwal , Gautam Kamath , Mahbod Majid , Argyris Mouzakis , Rose Silver , Jonathan Ullman

There are now several large scale deployments of differential privacy used to collect statistical information about users. However, these deployments periodically recollect the data and recompute the statistics using algorithms designed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Matthew Joseph , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman , Bo Waggoner

Local differential privacy (LDP), a technique applying unbiased statistical estimations instead of real data, is often adopted in data collection. In particular, this technique is used with frequency oracles (FO) because it can protect each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dan Zhao , Suyun Zhao , Ruixuan Liu , Cuiping Li , Wenjuan Liang , Hong Chen

Longitudinal data tracking under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a challenging task. Baseline solutions that repeatedly invoke a protocol designed for one-time computation lead to linear decay in the privacy or utility guarantee with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Olga Ohrimenko , Anthony Wirth , Hao Wu

Graph Neural Networks have achieved tremendous success in modeling complex graph data in a variety of applications. However, there are limited studies investigating privacy protection in GNNs. In this work, we propose a learning framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Karuna Bhaila , Wen Huang , Yongkai Wu , Xintao Wu

Differential privacy (DP) ensures that training a machine learning model does not leak private data. In practice, we may have access to auxiliary public data that is free of privacy concerns. In this work, we assume access to a given amount…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Andrew Lowy , Zeman Li , Tianjian Huang , Meisam Razaviyayn

Local differential privacy~(LDP) is an information-theoretic privacy definition suitable for statistical surveys that involve an untrusted data curator. An LDP version of quasi-maximum likelihood estimator~(QMLE) has been developed, but the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-16 Hajime Ono , Kazuhiro Minami , Hideitsu Hino

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

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

Marginal-based methods achieve promising performance in the synthetic data competition hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). To deal with high-dimensional data, the distribution of synthetic data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Ximing Li , Chendi Wang , Guang Cheng

We analyze to what extent final users can infer information about the level of protection of their data when the data obfuscation mechanism is a priori unknown to them (the so-called ''black-box'' scenario). In particular, we delve into the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Daniele Gorla , Louis Jalouzot , Federica Granese , Catuscia Palamidessi , Pablo Piantanida

Consider statistical learning (e.g. discrete distribution estimation) with local $\epsilon$-differential privacy, which preserves each data provider's privacy locally, we aim to optimize statistical data utility under the privacy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Shaowei Wang , Liusheng Huang , Pengzhan Wang , Yiwen Nie , Hongli Xu , Wei Yang , Xiang-Yang Li , Chunming Qiao