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Differential Privacy (DP) is an important privacy-enhancing technology for private machine learning systems. It allows to measure and bound the risk associated with an individual participation in a computation. However, it was recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Cuong Tran , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

Differential privacy is an information theoretic constraint on algorithms and code. It provides quantification of privacy leakage and formal privacy guarantees that are currently considered the gold standard in privacy protections. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Daniel Kifer , Solomon Messing , Aaron Roth , Abhradeep Thakurta , Danfeng Zhang

Differential privacy is a robust privacy standard that has been successfully applied to a range of data analysis tasks. Despite much recent work, optimal strategies for answering a collection of correlated queries are not known. We study…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-09-07 Chao Li , Michael Hay , Vibhor Rastogi , Gerome Miklau , Andrew McGregor

We describe a new algorithm for answering a given set of range queries under $\epsilon$-differential privacy which often achieves substantially lower error than competing methods. Our algorithm satisfies differential privacy by adding noise…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Chao Li , Michael Hay , Gerome Miklau , Yue Wang

Differential privacy (DP) is a gold-standard concept of measuring and guaranteeing privacy in data analysis. It is well-known that the cost of adding DP to deep learning model is its accuracy. However, it remains unclear how it affects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Nurislam Tursynbek , Aleksandr Petiushko , Ivan Oseledets

With the advent of machine learning in applications of critical infrastructure such as healthcare and energy, privacy is a growing concern in the minds of stakeholders. It is pivotal to ensure that neither the model nor the data can be used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Dominique Mercier , Adriano Lucieri , Mohsin Munir , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

The standard definition of differential privacy (DP) ensures that a mechanism's output distribution on adjacent datasets is indistinguishable. However, real-world implementations of DP can, and often do, reveal information through their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Zachary Ratliff , Salil Vadhan

While significant progress has been made in conventional fairness-aware machine learning (ML) and differentially private ML (DPML), the fairness of privacy protection across groups remains underexplored. Existing studies have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhi Yang , Changwu Huang , Ke Tang , Xin Yao

Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for privacy-preserving data analysis. Changing the hyperparameters of a differentially private algorithm allows one to trade off privacy and utility in a principled way. Quantifying this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Brendan Avent , Javier Gonzalez , Tom Diethe , Andrei Paleyes , Borja Balle

Differential privacy is a rigorous mathematical framework for evaluating and protecting data privacy. In most existing studies, there is a vulnerable assumption that records in a dataset are independent when differential privacy is applied.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Tao Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Renping Liu , Wanlei Zhou

Differential privacy is widely considered the formal privacy for privacy-preserving data analysis due to its robust and rigorous guarantees, with increasingly broad adoption in public services, academia, and industry. Despite originating in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-05 Weijie J. Su

Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto notion of privacy both in theory and in practice. However, despite its popularity, DP imposes strict requirements which guard against strong worst-case scenarios. For example, it guards against…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guy Blanc , William Pires , Toniann Pitassi

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a pivotal approach for safeguarding individual privacy in data analysis, yet its practical adoption is often hindered by challenges in the implementation and communication of DP. This paper presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Onyinye Dibia , Prianka Bhattacharjee , Brad Stenger , Steven Baldasty , Mako Bates , Ivoline C. Ngong , Yuanyuan Feng , Joseph P. Near

The task of $\textit{Differentially Private Text Rewriting}$ is a class of text privatization techniques in which (sensitive) input textual documents are $\textit{rewritten}$ under Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees. The motivation behind…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Stephen Meisenbacher , Chaeeun Joy Lee , Florian Matthes

We study mean estimation for Gaussian distributions under \textit{personalized differential privacy} (PDP), where each record has its own privacy budget. PDP is commonly considered in two variants: \textit{bounded} and \textit{unbounded}…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Wei Dong , Li Ge

Privacy-preserving data analysis is a rising challenge in contemporary statistics, as the privacy guarantees of statistical methods are often achieved at the expense of accuracy. In this paper, we investigate the tradeoff between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-11 T. Tony Cai , Yichen Wang , Linjun Zhang

An important problem in deep learning is the privacy and security of neural networks (NNs). Both aspects have long been considered separately. To date, it is still poorly understood how privacy enhancing training affects the robustness of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Franziska Boenisch , Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

The concept of differential privacy (DP) has gained substantial attention in recent years, most notably since the U.S. Census Bureau announced the adoption of the concept for its 2020 Decennial Census. However, despite its attractive…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-14 Jörg Drechsler , James Bailie

In this work we address the practical challenges of training machine learning models on privacy-sensitive datasets by introducing a modular approach that minimizes changes to training algorithms, provides a variety of configuration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 H. Brendan McMahan , Galen Andrew , Ulfar Erlingsson , Steve Chien , Ilya Mironov , Nicolas Papernot , Peter Kairouz

Face recognition technology has been used in many fields due to its high recognition accuracy, including the face unlocking of mobile devices, community access control systems, and city surveillance. As the current high accuracy is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Jiazhen Ji , Huan Wang , Yuge Huang , Jiaxiang Wu , Xingkun Xu , Shouhong Ding , ShengChuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Rongrong Ji