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Differential Privacy (DP) is the leading approach to privacy preserving deep learning. As such, there are multiple efforts to provide drop-in integration of DP into popular frameworks. These efforts, which add noise to each gradient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Mathias Lécuyer

Sharing real-time aggregate statistics of private data is of great value to the public to perform data mining for understanding important phenomena, such as Influenza outbreaks and traffic congestion. However, releasing time-series data…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Liyue Fan , Li Xiong

When training a machine learning model with differential privacy, one sets a privacy budget. This budget represents a maximal privacy violation that any user is willing to face by contributing their data to the training set. We argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Franziska Boenisch , Christopher Mühl , Adam Dziedzic , Roy Rinberg , Nicolas Papernot

The shuffle model of differential privacy (DP) offers compelling privacy-utility trade-offs in decentralized settings (e.g., internet of things, mobile edge networks). Particularly, the multi-message shuffle model, where each user may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Shaowei Wang , Hongqiao Chen , Sufen Zeng , Ruilin Yang , Hui Jiang , Peigen Ye , Kaiqi Yu , Rundong Mei , Shaozheng Huang , Wei Yang , Bangzhou Xin

This paper investigates the role of dimensionality reduction in efficient communication and differential privacy (DP) of the local datasets at the remote users for over-the-air computation (AirComp)-based federated learning (FL) model. More…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Amir Sonee , Stefano Rini , Yu-Chih Huang

In this work, we consider a federated learning model in a wireless system with multiple base stations and inter-cell interference. We apply a differential private scheme to transmit information from users to their corresponding base station…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Nima Tavangaran , Mingzhe Chen , Zhaohui Yang , José Mairton B. Da Silva , H. Vincent Poor

Privacy-preserving data analysis has become a central challenge in modern statistics. At the same time, a long-standing goal in statistics is the development of adaptive procedures -- methods that achieve near-optimal performance across…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-17 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Lasse Vuursteen

Concern about how to aggregate sensitive user data without compromising individual privacy is a major barrier to greater availability of data. The model of differential privacy has emerged as an accepted model to release sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Graham Cormode , Tejas Kulkarni , Divesh Srivastava

In social networks, different users may have different privacy preferences and there are many users with public identities. Most work on differentially private social network data publication neglects this fact. We aim to release the number…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Yongkai Li , Shubo Liu , Dan Li , Jun Wang

This paper proposes new methodologies for conducting practical differentially private (DP) estimation and inference in high-dimensional linear regression. We first introduce a DP Bayesian Information Criterion (DP-BIC) for selecting the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-13 Zhanrui Cai , Sai Li , Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang

Standard differential privacy imposes uniform privacy constraints across all features, overlooking the inherent distinction between sensitive and insensitive features in practice. In this paper, we introduce a relaxed definition of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Tianyu Wang , Luhao Zhang , Rachel Cummings

Differentially private wireless federated learning (DPWFL) is a promising framework for protecting sensitive user data. However, foundational questions on how to precisely characterize privacy loss remain open, and existing work is further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Chen Yaoling , Liang Hao , Tu Xiaotong

Differentially private (DP) decentralized Federated Learning (FL) allows local users to collaborate without sharing their data with a central server. However, accurately quantifying the privacy budget of private FL algorithms is challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiang Li , Buxin Su , Chendi Wang , Qi Long , Weijie J. Su

Mobile apps and location-based services generate large amounts of location data that can benefit research on traffic optimization, context-aware notifications and public health (e.g., spread of contagious diseases). To preserve individual…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Sepanta Zeighami , Ritesh Ahuja , Gabriel Ghinita , Cyrus Shahabi

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

Thanks to the ubiquitous deployment of Wi-Fi hotspots, channel state information (CSI)-based Wi-Fi sensing can unleash game-changing applications in many fields, such as healthcare, security, and entertainment. However, despite one decade…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Marco Cominelli , Francesco Gringoli , Francesco Restuccia

With the advancements in connected devices, a huge amount of real-time data is being generated. Efficient storage, transmission, and analysation of this real-time big data is important, as it serves a number of purposes ranging from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Muneeb Ul Hassan , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Jinjun Chen

Wireless sensing technologies become increasingly prevalent due to the ubiquitous nature of wireless signals and their inherent privacy-friendly characteristics. Device-free personnel identity recognition, a prevalent application in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Jichen Bian , Chong Tan , Peiyao Tang , Min Zheng

The randomized power method has gained significant interest due to its simplicity and efficient handling of large-scale spectral analysis and recommendation tasks. However, its application to large datasets containing personal information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Julien Nicolas , César Sabater , Mohamed Maouche , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Mark Coates

Differential privacy (DP) has achieved remarkable results in the field of privacy-preserving machine learning. However, existing DP frameworks do not satisfy all the conditions for becoming metrics, which prevents them from deriving better…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Chengyi Yang , Jiayin Qi , Aimin Zhou