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Local differential privacy (LDP), which enables an untrusted server to collect aggregated statistics from distributed users while protecting the privacy of those users, has been widely deployed in practice. However, LDP protocols for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Xinyue Sun , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Jiawei Duan , Tianyu Wo , Jie Xu , Renyu Yang

This paper investigates the problem of collecting multidimensional data throughout time (i.e., longitudinal studies) for the fundamental task of frequency estimation under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) guarantees. Contrary to frequency…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Héber H. Arcolezi , Jean-François Couchot , Bechara Al Bouna , Xiaokui Xiao

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is now widely adopted in large-scale systems to collect and analyze sensitive data while preserving users' privacy. However, almost all LDP protocols rely on a semi-trust model where users are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Rong Du , Qingqing Ye , Yue Fu , Haibo Hu , Jin Li , Chengfang Fang , Jie Shi

Local differential privacy (LDP) provides a way for an untrusted data collector to aggregate users' data without violating their privacy. Various privacy-preserving data analysis tasks have been studied under the protection of LDP, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Wei Tong , Haoyu Chen , Jiacheng Niu , Sheng Zhong

We consider the problem of estimating sparse discrete distributions under local differential privacy (LDP) and communication constraints. We characterize the sample complexity for sparse estimation under LDP constraints up to a constant…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Jayadev Acharya , Peter Kairouz , Yuhan Liu , Ziteng Sun

Centralized differential privacy has been successfully applied to quantum computing and information processing to protect privacy and avoid leaks in the connections between neighboring quantum states. Consequently, quantum local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Ji Guan

Local differential privacy (LDP), which perturbs the data of each user locally and only sends the noisy version of her information to the aggregator, is a popular privacy-preserving data collection mechanism. In LDP, the data collector…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Jiawei Duan , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

In this work, we investigate the problem of public data assisted non-interactive Local Differentially Private (LDP) learning with a focus on non-parametric classification. Under the posterior drift assumption, we for the first time derive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-04 Yuheng Ma , Hanfang Yang

We develop a theory of asymptotic efficiency in regular parametric models when data confidentiality is ensured by local differential privacy (LDP). Even though efficient parameter estimation is a classical and well-studied problem in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Lukas Steinberger

Pointwise maximal leakage (PML) is a per-outcome privacy measure based on threat models from quantitative information flow. Privacy guarantees with PML rely on knowledge about the distribution that generated the private data. In this work,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Leonhard Grosse , Sara Saeidian , Mikael Skoglund , Tobias J. Oechtering

We study locally differentially private (LDP) bandits learning in this paper. First, we propose simple black-box reduction frameworks that can solve a large family of context-free bandits learning problems with LDP guarantee. Based on our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Kai Zheng , Tianle Cai , Weiran Huang , Zhenguo Li , Liwei Wang

Local differential privacy (LDP) offers rigorous, quantifiable privacy guarantees for personal data by introducing perturbations at the data source. Understanding how these perturbations affect classifier utility is crucial for both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ye Zheng , Yidan Hu

The collection and analysis of telemetry data from users' devices is routinely performed by many software companies. Telemetry collection leads to improved user experience but poses significant risks to users' privacy. Locally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Bolin Ding , Janardhan Kulkarni , Sergey Yekhanin

We propose a new family of label randomizers for training regression models under the constraint of label differential privacy (DP). In particular, we leverage the trade-offs between bias and variance to construct better label randomizers…

The rise of massive networks across diverse domains necessitates sophisticated graph analytics, often involving sensitive data and raising privacy concerns. This paper addresses these challenges using local differential privacy (LDP), which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Pranay Mundra , Charalampos Papamanthou , Julian Shun , Quanquan C. Liu

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to statistically guarantee data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. While ensuring strong data privacy, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

With the increasing importance of data privacy, Local Differential Privacy (LDP) has recently become a strong measure of privacy for protecting each user's privacy from data analysts without relying on a trusted third party. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Shun Zhang , Hai Zhu , Zhili Chen , Haibo Hu

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

Sensitive statistics are often collected across sets of users, with repeated collection of reports done over time. For example, trends in users' private preferences or software usage may be monitored via such reports. We study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Úlfar Erlingsson , Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Ananth Raghunathan , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

Based on binary inquiries, we developed an algorithm to estimate population quantiles under Local Differential Privacy (LDP). By self-normalizing, our algorithm provides asymptotically normal estimation with valid inference, resulting in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-08 Yi Liu , Qirui Hu , Lei Ding , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong