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We develop a geometric framework for anonymous shuffle experiments based on an anchored affine likelihood-ratio law: a mean-zero measure on the regular simplex polytope. Every finite-output d-ary channel corresponds, up to refinements, to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Alex Shvets

ldp deployments are vulnerable to inference attacks as an adversary can link the noisy responses to their identity and subsequently, auxiliary information using the order of the data. An alternative model, shuffle DP, prevents this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Casey Meehan , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Somesh Jha

Gaussian copulas are widely used to estimate multivariate distributions and relationships. We present algorithms for estimating Gaussian copula correlations that ensure differential privacy. We first convert data values into sets of two-way…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-08 Shuo Wang , Joseph Feldman , Jerome P. Reiter

We investigate the problem of guessing a discrete random variable $Y$ under a privacy constraint dictated by another correlated discrete random variable $X$, where both guessing efficiency and privacy are assessed in terms of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Shahab Asoodeh , Mario Diaz , Fady Alajaji , Tamás Linder

Sparse histogram methods can be useful for returning differentially private counts of items in large or infinite histograms, large group-by queries, and more generally, releasing a set of statistics with sufficient item counts. We consider…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Brian Karrer , Daniel Kifer , Arjun Wilkins , Danfeng Zhang

We present a quantum protocol which securely and implicitly implements a random shuffle to realize differential privacy in the shuffle model. The shuffle model of differential privacy amplifies privacy achievable via local differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Hassan Jameel Asghar , Arghya Mukherjee , Gavin K. Brennen

The shuffle model, which anonymizes data by randomly permuting user messages, has been widely adopted in both cryptography and differential privacy. In this work, we present the first systematic study of the Bayesian advantage in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Pengcheng Su , Haibo Cheng , Ping Wang

Shuffling has been shown to amplify differential privacy guarantees, enabling a more favorable privacy-utility trade-off. To characterize and compute this amplification, two fundamental analytical frameworks have been proposed: the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Pengcheng Su , Haibo Cheng , Ping Wang

Differential privacy (DP) is a rigorous notion of data privacy, used for private statistics. The canonical algorithm for differentially private mean estimation is to first clip the samples to a bounded range and then add noise to their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Gautam Kamath , Argyris Mouzakis , Matthew Regehr , Vikrant Singhal , Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion for quantifying the privacy loss of algorithms. Algorithms in the central model of DP achieve high accuracy but make the strongest trust assumptions whereas those in the local DP model make the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Rasmus Pagh

Recent research in differential privacy demonstrated that (sub)sampling can amplify the level of protection. For example, for $\epsilon$-differential privacy and simple random sampling with sampling rate $r$, the actual privacy guarantee is…

Applications · Statistics 2022-02-22 Jingchen Hu , Joerg Drechsler , Hang J. Kim

We study discrete distribution estimation under user-level local differential privacy (LDP). In user-level $\varepsilon$-LDP, each user has $m\ge1$ samples and the privacy of all $m$ samples must be preserved simultaneously. We resolve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Jayadev Acharya , Yuhan Liu , Ziteng Sun

Balancing privacy and accuracy is a major challenge in designing differentially private machine learning algorithms. One way to improve this tradeoff for free is to leverage the noise in common data operations that already use randomness.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Jacob Imola , Kamalika Chaudhuri

In this paper we revisit the classical problem of nonparametric regression, but impose local differential privacy constraints. Under such constraints, the raw data $(X_1,Y_1),\ldots,(X_n,Y_n)$, taking values in $\mathbb{R}^d \times…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Thomas Berrett , László Györfi , Harro Walk

Motivated by recent developments in the shuffle model of differential privacy, we propose a new approximate shuffling functionality called Alternating Shuffle, and provide a protocol implementing alternating shuffling in a single-server…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Borja Balle , James Bell , Adrià Gascón

This paper develops a framework for differentially private $e$-values under Gaussian differential privacy ($\mu$-GDP). We characterize the canonical noise mechanism, establishing that optimal multiplicative perturbation follows a Gaussian…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Qi Kuang , Bowen Gang , Yin Xia

This work studies anomaly detection under differential privacy (DP) with Gaussian perturbation using both statistical and information-theoretic tools. In our setting, the adversary aims to modify the content of a statistical dataset by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ayse Unsal , Melek Onen

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

The Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) algorithm supports the training of machine learning (ML) models with formal Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees. Traditionally, DP-SGD processes training data in batches using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Borja Balle , Jamie Hayes , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Motivated by the rapid rise in statistical tools in Functional Data Analysis, we consider the Gaussian mechanism for achieving differential privacy with parameter estimates taking values in a, potentially infinite-dimensional, separable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-01-29 Ardalan Mirshani , Matthew Reimherr , Aleksandra Slavkovic