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Differential privacy (DP) provides a principled approach to synthesizing data (e.g., loads) from real-world power systems while limiting the exposure of sensitive information. However, adversaries may exploit synthetic data to calibrate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Shengyang Wu , Vladimir Dvorkin

In this paper, we introduce a novel concept of user-entity differential privacy (UeDP) to provide formal privacy protection simultaneously to both sensitive entities in textual data and data owners in learning natural language models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Phung Lai , NhatHai Phan , Tong Sun , Rajiv Jain , Franck Dernoncourt , Jiuxiang Gu , Nikolaos Barmpalios

Semantic communication (SemCom) improves transmission efficiency by focusing on task-relevant information. However, transmitting semantic-rich data over insecure channels introduces privacy risks. This paper proposes a novel SemCom…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Weixuan Chen , Shunpu Tang , Qianqian Yang , Zhiguo Shi , Dusit Niyato

For protecting users' private data, local differential privacy (LDP) has been leveraged to provide the privacy-preserving range query, thus supporting further statistical analysis. However, existing LDP-based range query approaches are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Linkang Du , Zhikun Zhang , Shaojie Bai , Changchang Liu , Shouling Ji , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

Synthetic data from generative models emerges as the privacy-preserving data sharing solution. Such a synthetic data set shall resemble the original data without revealing identifiable private information. Till date, the prior focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chaoyi Zhu , Jiayi Tang , Juan F. Pérez , Marten van Dijk , Lydia Y. Chen

Differential privacy (DP) allows data analysts to query databases that contain users' sensitive information while providing a quantifiable privacy guarantee to users. Recent interactive DP systems such as APEx provide accuracy guarantees…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Miti Mazmudar , Thomas Humphries , Jiaxiang Liu , Matthew Rafuse , Xi He

We introduce a family of information leakage measures called maximal $(\alpha,\beta)$-leakage (M$\alpha$beL), parameterized by real numbers $\alpha$ and $\beta$ greater than or equal to 1. The measure is formalized via an operational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Atefeh Gilani , Gowtham R. Kurri , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar

In statistical applications it has become increasingly common to encounter data structures that live on non-linear spaces such as manifolds. Classical linear regression, one of the most fundamental methodologies of statistical learning,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-10 Aditya Kulkarni , Carlos Soto

Motivated by a real-life problem of sharing social network data that contain sensitive personal information, we propose a novel approach to release and analyze synthetic graphs in order to protect privacy of individual relationships…

Computation · Statistics 2016-09-26 Vishesh Karwa , Pavel N. Krivitsky , Aleksandra B. Slavković

We propose a novel and systematic differentially private (DP) inference framework for non-Euclidean data. First, we design two types of DP mechanisms for the Fr\'echet mean and variance with i.i.d. Riemannian manifold-valued data, tailored…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-15 Yangdi Jiang , Xiaotian Chang , Qirui Hu

To analyze the privacy guarantee of personal data in a database that is subject to queries it is necessary to model the prior knowledge of a possible attacker. Differential privacy considers a worst-case scenario where he knows almost…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

Differential privacy (DP) is the de facto notion of privacy both in theory and in practice. However, despite its popularity, DP imposes strict requirements which guard against strong worst-case scenarios. For example, it guards against…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guy Blanc , William Pires , Toniann Pitassi

Differential privacy (DP) is the prevailing technique for protecting user data in machine learning models. However, deficits to this framework include a lack of clarity for selecting the privacy budget $\epsilon$ and a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Tyler LeBlond , Joseph Munoz , Fred Lu , Maya Fuchs , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Brian Testa

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms protect individual-level information by introducing randomness into the statistical analysis procedure. Despite the availability of numerous DP tools, there remains a lack of general techniques for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-25 Zhanyu Wang , Guang Cheng , Jordan Awan

The widespread integration of Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) in smart home environments has amplified the demand for transparent and interpretable machine learning models. To foster user trust and comply with emerging regulatory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Dilli Prasad Sharma , Xiaowei Sun , Liang Xue , Xiaodong Lin , Pulei Xiong

Synthetic data has been hailed as the silver bullet for privacy preserving data analysis. If a record is not real, then how could it violate a person's privacy? In addition, deep-learning based generative models are employed successfully to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Benedikt Groß , Gerhard Wunder

This paper establishes the equivalence between Local Differential Privacy (LDP) and a global limit on learning any knowledge specific to a queried object. However, an output from an LDP query is not necessarily required to provide exact…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Mingen Pan

The integration of Differential Privacy (DP) with diffusion models (DMs) presents a promising yet challenging frontier, particularly due to the substantial memorization capabilities of DMs that pose significant privacy risks. Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yu-Lin Tsai , Yizhe Li , Zekai Chen , Po-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Xuebin Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

The paper redefines econometric identification under formal privacy constraints, particularly differential privacy (DP). Traditionally, econometrics focuses on point or partial identification, aiming to recover parameters precisely or…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-11-06 Tatiana Komarova , Denis Nekipelov

Density-adaptive domain discretization is essential for high-utility privacy-preserving analytics but remains challenging under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) due to the privacy-budget costs associated with iterative refinement. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alexey Kroshnin , Alexandra Suvorikova