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We construct a universally Bayes consistent learning rule that satisfies differential privacy (DP). We first handle the setting of binary classification and then extend our rule to the more general setting of density estimation (with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Olivier Bousquet , Haim Kaplan , Aryeh Kontorovich , Yishay Mansour , Shay Moran , Menachem Sadigurschi , Uri Stemmer

Differential privacy is the standard method for privacy-preserving data analysis. The importance of having strong guarantees on the reliability of implementations of differentially private algorithms is widely recognized and has sparked…

This paper focuses on the design and analysis of privacy-preserving techniques for group testing and infection status retrieval. Our work is motivated by the need to provide accurate information on the status of disease spread among a group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Mira Gonen , Michael Langberg , Alex Sprintson

Differential privacy has become the dominant standard in the research community for strong privacy protection. There has been a flood of research into query answering algorithms that meet this standard. Algorithms are becoming increasingly…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Gerome Miklau , Yan Chen , Dan Zhang

We study the problem of discrete distribution estimation under utility-optimized local differential privacy (ULDP), which enforces local differential privacy (LDP) on sensitive data while allowing more accurate inference on non-sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sun-Moon Yoon , Hyun-Young Park , Seung-Hyun Nam , Si-Hyeon Lee

Applying differential privacy at scale requires convenient ways to check that programs computing with sensitive data appropriately preserve privacy. We propose here a fully automated framework for {\em testing} differential privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Hengchu Zhang , Edo Roth , Andreas Haeberlen , Benjamin C. Pierce , Aaron Roth

Differentially Private Federated Learning (DP-FL) has garnered attention as a collaborative machine learning approach that ensures formal privacy. Most DP-FL approaches ensure DP at the record-level within each silo for cross-silo FL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Fumiyuki Kato , Li Xiong , Shun Takagi , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Differential privacy is fast becoming the gold standard in enabling statistical analysis of data while protecting the privacy of individuals. However, practical use of differential privacy still lags behind research progress because…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Noah Johnson , Joseph P. Near , Joseph M. Hellerstein , Dawn Song

Large-scale data collection, from national censuses to IoT-enabled smart homes, routinely gathers dozens of attributes per individual. These multi-attribute datasets are crucial for analytics but pose significant privacy risks. Local…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Shafizur Rahman Seeam , Ye Zheng , Yidan Hu

The technology of differential privacy, adding a noise drawn from the Laplace distribution, successfully overcomes a difficulty of keeping both the privacy of individual data and the utility of the statistical result simultaneously.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Zijian Zhang , Zhan Qin , Liehuang Zhu , Wei Jiang , Chen Xu , and Kui Ren

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

Large organizations that collect data about populations (like the US Census Bureau) release summary statistics that are used by multiple stakeholders for resource allocation and policy making problems. These organizations are also legally…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-11-08 David Pujol , Yikai Wu , Brandon Fain , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Differential Privacy (DP) considers a scenario in which an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database. This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy threat faced by an individual in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

Differential privacy quantifies privacy through the privacy budget $\epsilon$, yet its practical interpretation is complicated by variations across models and datasets. Recent research on differentially private machine learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuechun Gu , Keke Chen

We revisit Wald's celebrated Sequential Probability Ratio Test for sequential tests of two simple hypotheses, under privacy constraints. We propose DP-SPRT, a wrapper that can be calibrated to achieve desired error probabilities and privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Thomas Michel , Debabrota Basu , Emilie Kaufmann

Security concerns in large-scale networked environments are becoming increasingly critical. To further improve the algorithm security from the design perspective of decentralized optimization algorithms, we introduce a new measure: Privacy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Luqing Wang , Luyao Guo , Shaofu Yang , Xinli Shi

With the widespread sharing of personal face images in applications' public databases, face recognition systems faces real threat of being breached by potential adversaries who are able to access users' face images and use them to intrude…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Lu Ou , Shaolin Liao , Shihui Gao , Guandong Huang , Zheng Qi

We initiate an investigation of node differential privacy for graphs in the local model of private data analysis. In our model, dubbed LNDP*, each node sees its own edge list and releases the output of a local randomizer on this input.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith , Connor Wagaman , Anatoly Zavyalov

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) offers strong privacy guarantees without requiring users to trust external parties. However, LDP applies uniform protection to all data features, including less sensitive ones, which degrades performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade , Alireza Fallah , Michael I. Jordan