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We propose a novel end-to-end privacy-preserving framework, instantiated by three efficient protocols for different deployment scenarios, covering both input and output privacy, for the vertically split scenario in federated learning (FL),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Shan Jin , Sai Rahul Rachuri , Yizhen Wang , Anderson C. A. Nascimento , Yiwei Cai

We study two foundational problems in distributed survival analysis under federated differential privacy (FDP): estimation of the Cox regression coefficients and of the cumulative baseline hazard functions, allowing for heterogeneous…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Elly K. H. Hung , Yi Yu

Computation of Mutual Information (MI) helps understand the amount of information shared between a pair of random variables. Automated feature selection techniques based on MI ranking are regularly used to extract information from sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Ankit Srivastava , Samira Pouyanfar , Joshua Allen , Ken Johnston , Qida Ma

Principal component analysis (PCA) is an essential algorithm for dimensionality reduction in many data science domains. We address the problem of performing a federated PCA on private data distributed among multiple data providers while…

In this paper, we propose the discrete Gaussian based differentially private federated learning (D2P-Fed), a unified scheme to achieve both differential privacy (DP) and communication efficiency in federated learning (FL). In particular,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-05 Lun Wang , Ruoxi Jia , Dawn Song

It is common for data structures such as images and shapes of 2D objects to be represented as points on a manifold. The utility of a mechanism to produce sanitized differentially private estimates from such data is intimately linked to how…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-27 Carlos Soto , Karthik Bharath , Matthew Reimherr , Aleksandra Slavkovic

Consider the following problem: given a metric space, some of whose points are "clients", open a set of at most $k$ facilities to minimize the average distance from the clients to these facilities. This is just the well-studied $k$-median…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-11-11 Anupam Gupta , Katrina Ligett , Frank McSherry , Aaron Roth , Kunal Talwar

Many problems in machine learning rely on multi-task learning (MTL), in which the goal is to solve multiple related machine learning tasks simultaneously. MTL is particularly relevant for privacy-sensitive applications in areas such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Shengyuan Hu , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Virginia Smith

Federated learning (FL) is a type of collaborative machine learning where participating peers/clients process their data locally, sharing only updates to the collaborative model. This enables to build privacy-aware distributed machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Filippo Galli , Sayan Biswas , Kangsoo Jung , Tommaso Cucinotta , Catuscia Palamidessi

Clustering is a cornerstone of data analysis that is particularly suited to identifying coherent subgroups or substructures in unlabeled data, as are generated continuously in large amounts these days. However, in many cases traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jonathan Scott , Christoph H. Lampert , David Saulpic

We introduce a new $(\epsilon_p, \delta_p)$-differentially private algorithm for the $k$-means clustering problem. Given a dataset in Euclidean space, the $k$-means clustering problem requires one to find $k$ points in that space such that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Anamay Chaturvedi , Huy Nguyen , Eric Xu

Differentially private analysis of graphs is widely used for releasing statistics from sensitive graphs while still preserving user privacy. Most existing algorithms however are in a centralized privacy model, where a trusted data curator…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Jacob Imola , Takao Murakami , Kamalika Chaudhuri

The k-means clustering is one of the most popular clustering algorithms in data mining. Recently a lot of research has been concentrated on the algorithm when the dataset is divided into multiple parties or when the dataset is too large to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Riddhi Ghosal , Sanjit Chatterjee

Federated Learning (FL) has gained significant recent attention in machine learning for its enhanced privacy and data security, making it indispensable in fields such as healthcare, finance, and personalized services. This paper…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Jingyang Li , T. Tony Cai , Dong Xia , Anru R. Zhang

This paper considers a multi-message secure aggregation with privacy problem, in which a server aims to compute $\sf K_c\geq 1$ linear combinations of local inputs from $\sf K$ distributed users. The problem addresses two tasks: (1)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chenyi Sun , Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Giuseppe Caire

The private collection of multiple statistics from a population is a fundamental statistical problem. One possible approach to realize this is to rely on the local model of differential privacy (LDP). Numerous LDP protocols have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs , Jean-François Couchot , Catuscia Palamidessi

Differential privacy is one of the methods to solve the problem of privacy protection in federated learning. Setting the same privacy budget for each round will result in reduced accuracy in training. The existing methods of the adjustment…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhiqiang Wang , Xinyue Yu , Qianli Huang , Yongguang Gong

We propose a general statistical inference framework to capture the privacy threat incurred by a user that releases data to a passive but curious adversary, given utility constraints. We show that applying this general framework to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Flavio du Pin Calmon , Nadia Fawaz

Federated learning (FL) has gained increasing attention due to privacy-preserving collaborative training on decentralized clients, mitigating the need to upload sensitive data to a central server directly. Nonetheless, recent research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Shourya Goel , Himanshi Tibrewal , Anant Jain , Anshul Pundhir , Pravendra Singh

Privacy in federated learning is crucial, encompassing two key aspects: safeguarding the privacy of clients' data and maintaining the privacy of the federator's objective from the clients. While the first aspect has been extensively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Maximilian Egger , Rüdiger Urbanke , Rawad Bitar