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Differential privacy (DP) has been applied in deep learning for preserving privacy of the underlying training sets. Existing DP practice falls into three categories - objective perturbation, gradient perturbation and output perturbation.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Zhigang Lu , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar , Darren Webb , Peter Dickinson

There has been a recent effort in applying differential privacy on memory access patterns to enhance data privacy. This is called differential obliviousness. Differential obliviousness is a promising direction because it provides a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Lianke Qin , Rajesh Jayaram , Elaine Shi , Zhao Song , Danyang Zhuo , Shumo Chu

In this paper, we study the problem of publishing a stream of real-valued data satisfying differential privacy (DP). One major challenge is that the maximal possible value can be quite large; thus it is necessary to estimate a threshold so…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Tianhao Wang , Joann Qiongna Chen , Zhikun Zhang , Dong Su , Yueqiang Cheng , Zhou Li , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

We study the space complexity of the two related fields of differential privacy and adaptive data analysis. Specifically, (1) Under standard cryptographic assumptions, we show that there exists a problem P that requires exponentially more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Itai Dinur , Uri Stemmer , David P. Woodruff , Samson Zhou

Recently differential privacy has been used for a number of streaming, data structure, and dynamic graph problems as a means of hiding the internal randomness of the data structure, so that multiple possibly adaptive queries can be made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shiyuan Feng , Ying Feng , George Z. Li , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Lichen Zhang

Differential privacy (DP) has become the de facto standard of privacy preservation due to its strong protection and sound mathematical foundation, which is widely adopted in different applications such as big data analysis, graph data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Honglu Jiang , Yifeng Gao , S M Sarwar , Luis GarzaPerez , Mahmudul Robin

We study the design of differentially private algorithms for adaptive analysis of dynamically growing databases, where a database accumulates new data entries while the analysis is ongoing. We provide a collection of tools for machine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rachel Cummings , Sara Krehbiel , Kevin A. Lai , Uthaipon Tantipongpipat

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

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion that restricts the privacy leakage of an algorithm when running on sensitive data, in which privacy-utility trade-off is one of the central problems in private data analysis. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Bo Li , Wei Wang , Peng Ye

Differentially private algorithms protect individuals in data analysis scenarios by ensuring that there is only a weak correlation between the existence of the user in the data and the result of the analysis. Dynamic graph algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Monika Henzinger , Lara Ost

Ensuring differential privacy of models learned from sensitive user data is an important goal that has been studied extensively in recent years. It is now known that for some basic learning problems, especially those involving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Cynthia Dwork , Vitaly Feldman

Motivated by understanding the dynamics of sensitive social networks over time, we consider the problem of continual release of statistics in a network that arrives online, while preserving privacy of its participants. For our privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Shuang Song , Susan Little , Sanjay Mehta , Staal Vinterbo , Kamalika Chaudhuri

We present a differentially private mechanism to display statistics (e.g., the moving average) of a stream of real valued observations where the bound on each observation is either too conservative or unknown in advance. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Victor Perrier , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Dali Kaafar

Composition is a key feature of differential privacy. Well-known advanced composition theorems allow one to query a private database quadratically more times than basic privacy composition would permit. However, these results require that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Justin Whitehouse , Aaditya Ramdas , Ryan Rogers , Zhiwei Steven Wu

In a recent paper Chan et al. [SODA '19] proposed a relaxation of the notion of (full) memory obliviousness, which was introduced by Goldreich and Ostrovsky [J. ACM '96] and extensively researched by cryptographers. The new notion,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Amos Beimel , Kobbi Nissim , Mohammad Zaheri

We study efficient mechanisms for the query release problem in differential privacy: given a workload of $m$ statistical queries, output approximate answers to the queries while satisfying the constraints of differential privacy. In…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Jaroslaw Blasiok , Mark Bun , Aleksandar Nikolov , Thomas Steinke

Differential Privacy (DP) is the current gold-standard for ensuring privacy for statistical queries. Estimation problems under DP constraints appearing in the literature have largely focused on providing equal privacy to all users. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Syomantak Chaudhuri , Thomas A. Courtade

We revisit the problem of linear regression under a differential privacy constraint. By consolidating existing pieces in the literature, we clarify the correct dependence of the feature, label and coefficient domains in the optimization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-10 Yu-Xiang Wang

The increased application of machine learning (ML) in sensitive domains requires protecting the training data through privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). DP requires to specify a uniform privacy level $\varepsilon$ that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Krishna Acharya , Franziska Boenisch , Rakshit Naidu , Juba Ziani

Much of the research in differential privacy has focused on offline applications with the assumption that all data is available at once. When these algorithms are applied in practice to streams where data is collected over time, this either…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Girish Kumar , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin