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As multi-agent systems proliferate, there is increasing demand for coordination protocols that protect agents' sensitive information while allowing them to collaborate. To help address this need, this paper presents a differentially private…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Calvin Hawkins , Matthew Hale

We present new mechanisms for \emph{label differential privacy}, a relaxation of differentially private machine learning that only protects the privacy of the labels in the training set. Our mechanisms cluster the examples in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Umar Syed , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Polls are a common way of collecting data, including product reviews and feedback forms. However, few data collectors give upfront privacy guarantees. Additionally, when privacy guarantees are given upfront, they are often vague claims…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Boel Nelson

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a robust framework for privacy-preserving data releases and has been successfully applied in high-profile cases, such as the 2020 US Census. However, in organizational settings, the use of DP remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nicolas Küchler , Alexander Viand , Hidde Lycklama , Anwar Hithnawi

Statistical agencies rely on sampling techniques to collect socio-demographic data crucial for policy-making and resource allocation. This paper shows that surveys of important societal relevance introduce sampling errors that unevenly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Joonhyuk Ko , Juba Ziani , Saswat Das , Matt Williams , Ferdinando Fioretto

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

The massive collection of personal data by personalization systems has rendered the preservation of privacy of individuals more and more difficult. Most of the proposed approaches to preserve privacy in personalization systems usually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Mohammad Alaggan , Sébastien Gambs , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

The need for a privacy management layer in today's systems started to manifest with the emergence of new systems for privacy-preserving analytics and privacy compliance. As a result, many independent efforts have emerged that try to provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Nicolas Küchler , Emanuel Opel , Hidde Lycklama , Alexander Viand , Anwar Hithnawi

Differential privacy is a rigorous definition for privacy that guarantees that any analysis performed on a sensitive dataset leaks no information about the individuals whose data are contained therein. In this work, we develop new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Vassilis Digalakis , George N. Karystinos , Minos N. Garofalakis

A large amount of data and applications need to be shared with various parties and stakeholders in the cloud environment for storage, computation, and data utilization. Since a third party operates the cloud platform, owners cannot fully…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Ashutosh Kumar Singh , Rishabh Gupta

In collaborative recommendation systems, privacy may be compromised, as users' opinions are used to generate recommendations for others. In this paper, we consider an online collaborative recommendation system, and we measure users' privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-10-30 Seth Gilbert , Xiao Liu , Haifeng Yu

Federated learning (FL) emerged as a paradigm designed to improve data privacy by enabling data to reside at its source, thus embedding privacy as a core consideration in FL architectures, whether centralized or decentralized. Contrasting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Wenrui Yu , Qiongxiu Li , Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Mads Græsbøll Christensen , Richard Heusdens

Local differential privacy has recently surfaced as a strong measure of privacy in contexts where personal information remains private even from data analysts. Working in a setting where both the data providers and data analysts want to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Peter Kairouz , Sewoong Oh , Pramod Viswanath

The performance cost of differential privacy has, for some applications, been shown to be higher for minority groups; fairness, conversely, has been shown to disproportionally compromise the privacy of members of such groups. Most work in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Victor Petrén Bach Hansen , Atula Tejaswi Neerkaje , Ramit Sawhney , Lucie Flek , Anders Søgaard

Differential privacy is a formal mathematical {stand-ard} for quantifying the degree of that individual privacy in a statistical database is preserved. To guarantee differential privacy, a typical method is adding random noise to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Jianping He , Lin Cai

Data sharing is a prerequisite for collaborative innovation, enabling organizations to leverage diverse datasets for deeper insights. In real-world applications like FinTech and Smart Manufacturing, transactional data, often in tabular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Mengmeng Yang , Chi-Hung Chi , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jie Feng , Taolin Guo , Wei Ni

As large-scale theft of data from corporate servers is becoming increasingly common, it becomes interesting to examine alternatives to the paradigm of centralizing sensitive data into large databases. Instead, one could use cryptography and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Thomas Leaute , Boi Faltings

Data privacy is a central concern in many applications involving ranking from incomplete and noisy pairwise comparisons, such as recommendation systems, educational assessments, and opinion surveys on sensitive topics. In this work, we…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-15 T. Tony Cai , Abhinav Chakraborty , Yichen Wang

We study distributed estimation and learning problems in a networked environment where agents exchange information to estimate unknown statistical properties of random variables from their privately observed samples. The agents can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Marios Papachristou , M. Amin Rahimian

Federated learning (FL), where data remains at the federated clients, and where only gradient updates are shared with a central aggregator, was assumed to be private. Recent work demonstrates that adversaries with gradient-level access can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Varun Chandrasekaran , Suman Banerjee , Diego Perino , Nicolas Kourtellis