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This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

Prior work on differential privacy analysis of randomized SGD algorithms relies on composition theorems, where the implicit (unrealistic) assumption is that the internal state of the iterative algorithm is revealed to the adversary. As a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-18 Jiayuan Ye , Reza Shokri

Protocols satisfying Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enable parties to collect aggregate information about a population while protecting each user's privacy, without relying on a trusted third party. LDP protocols (such as Google's RAPPOR)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Tianhao Wang , Jeremiah Blocki , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

When applying differential privacy to sensitive data, we can often improve performance using external information such as other sensitive data, public data, or human priors. We propose to use the learning-augmented algorithms (or algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Mikhail Khodak , Kareem Amin , Travis Dick , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) provides provable privacy protection for data collection without the assumption of the trusted data server. In the real-world scenario, different data have different privacy requirements due to the distinct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong , Yang Cao

Differential privacy (DP) has become the standard for private data analysis. Certain machine learning applications only require privacy protection for specific protected attributes. Using naive variants of differential privacy in such use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Saeed Mahloujifar , Chuan Guo , G. Edward Suh , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Motivated by the increasing concern about privacy in nowadays data-intensive online learning systems, we consider a black-box optimization in the nonparametric Gaussian process setting with local differential privacy (LDP) guarantee.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Xingyu Zhou , Jian Tan

We consider the well-studied dueling bandit problem, where a learner aims to identify near-optimal actions using pairwise comparisons, under the constraint of differential privacy. We consider a general class of utility-based preference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Aadirupa Saha , Hilal Asi

We study the problem of multi-agent reinforcement learning (multi-agent RL) with differential privacy (DP) constraints. This is well-motivated by various real-world applications involving sensitive data, where it is critical to protect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Dan Qiao , Yu-Xiang Wang

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is the predominant privacy model for safeguarding individual data privacy. Existing perturbation mechanisms typically require perturbing the original values to ensure acceptable privacy, which inevitably…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Qingqing Ye , Liantong Yu , Kai Huang , Xiaokui Xiao , Weiran Liu , Haibo Hu

We consider the setting of publishing data without leaking sensitive information. We do so in the framework of Robust Local Differential Privacy (RLDP). This ensures privacy for all distributions of the data in an uncertainty set. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jasper Goseling , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg

Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By constructing random local aggregators, we propose a framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hanshen Xiao , Yu Ye , Srinivas Devadas

Frequency estimation plays a critical role in many applications involving personal and private categorical data. Such data are often collected sequentially over time, making it valuable to estimate their distribution online while preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Soner Aydin , Sinan Yildirim

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is popularly used in practice for privacy-preserving data collection. Although existing LDP protocols offer high utility for large user populations (100,000 or more users), they perform poorly in scenarios…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Acar Tamersoy , Stacey Truex , Wenqi Wei , Ling Liu

Differential privacy (DP) is a privacy-preserving paradigm that protects the training data when training deep learning models. Critically, the performance of models is determined by the training hyperparameters, especially those of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Zhiqi Bu , Ruixuan Liu

Privacy issues of recommender systems have become a hot topic for the society as such systems are appearing in every corner of our life. In contrast to the fact that many secure multi-party computation protocols have been proposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Jun Wang , Qiang Tang

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

The introduction and advancements in Local Differential Privacy (LDP) variants have become a cornerstone in addressing the privacy concerns associated with the vast data produced by smart devices, which forms the foundation for data-driven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Likun Qin , Nan Wang , Tianshuo Qiu

We introduce a novel differentially private algorithm for online federated learning that employs temporally correlated noise to enhance utility while ensuring privacy of continuously released models. To address challenges posed by DP noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Jiaojiao Zhang , Linglingzhi Zhu , Mikael Johansson

Federated learning (FL) enables organizations to collaboratively train models without sharing their datasets. Despite this advantage, recent studies show that both client updates and the global model can leak private information, limiting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rouzbeh Behnia , Jeremiah Birrell , Arman Riasi , Reza Ebrahimi , Kaushik Dutta , Thang Hoang