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This study investigates the optimal selection of parameters for collaborative clustering while ensuring data privacy. We focus on key clustering algorithms within a collaborative framework, where multiple data owners combine their data. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Maryam Ghasemian , Erman Ayday

Hyperparameter tuning is a common practice in the application of machine learning but is a typically ignored aspect in the literature on privacy-preserving machine learning due to its negative effect on the overall privacy parameter. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Youlong Ding , Xueyang Wu

Protecting privacy during inference with deep neural networks is possible by adding noise to the activations in the last layers prior to the final classifiers or other task-specific layers. The activations in such layers are known as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Chuan Guo , Laurens van der Maaten , Saeed Mahloujifar , Mark Tygert

Privacy is under threat from artificial intelligence revolution fueled by unprecedented abundance of data. Differential privacy, an established candidate for privacy protection, is susceptible to adversarial attacks, acts conservatively,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Farhad Farokhi

It is proved that in a non-Bayesian parametric estimation problem, if the Fisher information matrix (FIM) is singular, unbiased estimators for the unknown parameter will not exist. Cramer-Rao bound (CRB), a popular tool to lower bound the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-28 Yen-Huan Li , Ping-Cheng Yeh

Data sharing is a necessity for innovative progress in many domains, especially in healthcare. However, the ability to share data is hindered by regulations protecting the privacy of natural persons. Synthetic tabular data provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tobias Hyrup , Anton Danholt Lautrup , Arthur Zimek , Peter Schneider-Kamp

Preserving privacy of continuous and/or high-dimensional data such as images, videos and audios, can be challenging with syntactic anonymization methods which are designed for discrete attributes. Differential privacy, which provides a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Jihun Hamm

The privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) has been one of the most interesting, yet challenging, research issues. In the PPDM, we seek to outsource our data for data mining tasks to a third party while maintaining its privacy. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-08-26 Abedelaziz Mohaisen , Dowon Hong

We investigate the structural foundations of statistical efficiency under $\alpha$-local differential privacy, with a focus on maximizing Fisher information. Building on the role of continuous staircase mechanisms, we identify a fundamental…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Chiara Amorino , Arnaud Gloter

Perhaps the single most important use case for differential privacy is to privately answer numerical queries, which is usually achieved by adding noise to the answer vector. The central question, therefore, is to understand which noise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-17 Jinshuo Dong , Weijie J. Su , Linjun Zhang

We reformulate the definition of privacy in the private information retrieval (PIR) problem to accommodate flexible privacy requirements. We focus on graph-replicated PIR, with a generalized privacy requirement, instead of requiring all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Mohamed Nomeir , Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

Datasets containing sensitive information are often sequentially analyzed by many algorithms. This raises a fundamental question in differential privacy regarding how the overall privacy bound degrades under composition. To address this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-26 Qinqing Zheng , Jinshuo Dong , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Privacy and communication constraints are two major bottlenecks in federated learning (FL) and analytics (FA). We study the optimal accuracy of mean and frequency estimation (canonical models for FL and FA respectively) under joint…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-04-05 Wei-Ning Chen , Dan Song , Ayfer Ozgur , Peter Kairouz

A basic problem in the design of privacy-preserving algorithms is the private maximization problem: the goal is to pick an item from a universe that (approximately) maximizes a data-dependent function, all under the constraint of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu , Shuang Song

Cyber and cyber-physical systems equipped with machine learning algorithms such as autonomous cars share environments with humans. In such a setting, it is important to align system (or agent) behaviors with the preferences of one or more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Arezoo Rajabi , Bhaskar Ramasubramanian , Abdullah Al Maruf , Radha Poovendran

This paper explores the implications of guaranteeing privacy by imposing a lower bound on the information density between the private and the public data. We introduce a novel and operationally meaningful privacy measure called pointwise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Sara Saeidian , Leonhard Grosse , Parastoo Sadeghi , Mikael Skoglund , Tobias J. Oechtering

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

We introduce a new class of range restricted formal data privacy standards that condition on owner beliefs about sensitive data ranges. By incorporating this additional information, we can provide a stronger privacy guarantee (e.g. an…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-10 Jingchen Hu , Matthew R. Williams , Terrance D. Savitsky

Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) enables trajectory sharing that enhances beamforming, resource allocation, and cooperative perception, yet raises fundamental privacy concerns under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Zexin Fang , Bin Han , Zhuojun Tian , Hans D. Schotten

Recently, inference privacy has attracted increasing attention. The inference privacy concern arises most notably in the widely deployed edge-cloud video analytics systems, where the cloud needs the videos captured from the edge. The video…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Siping Shi , Bihai Zhang , Dan Wang