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Trajectory data, which tracks movements through geographic locations, is crucial for improving real-world applications. However, collecting such sensitive data raises considerable privacy concerns. Local differential privacy (LDP) offers a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-11 I-Jung Hsu , Chih-Hsun Lin , Chia-Mu Yu , Sy-Yen Kuo , Chun-Ying Huang

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

We suggest the use of hash functions to cut down the communication costs when counting subgraphs under edge local differential privacy. While various algorithms exist for computing graph statistics, including the count of subgraphs, under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn , Tetsuo Shibuya

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is the gold standard trust model for privacy-preserving machine learning by guaranteeing privacy at the data source. However, its application to image data has long been considered impractical due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuanming Cao , Chengqi Li , Wenbo He

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

We study the Densest Subgraph (DSG) problem under the additional constraint of differential privacy. DSG is a fundamental theoretical question which plays a central role in graph analytics, and so privacy is a natural requirement. All known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Michael Dinitz , Satyen Kale , Silvio Lattanzi , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Many deployments of differential privacy in industry are in the local model, where each party releases its private information via a differentially private randomizer. We study triangle counting in the local model with edge differential…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Talya Eden , Quanquan C. Liu , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith

Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By constructing random local aggregators, we propose a framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hanshen Xiao , Yu Ye , Srinivas Devadas

Regulatory frameworks such as GDPR increasingly require that ML predictions be accompanied by post-hoc explanations, even when raw data and trained models cannot be released. Differential privacy (DP) is the standard mitigation for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Rishi Raj Sahoo , Jyotirmaya Shivottam , Subhankar Mishra

Graph clustering has many important applications in computing, but due to the increasing sizes of graphs, even traditionally fast clustering methods can be computationally expensive for real-world graphs of interest. Scalability problems…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Kimon Fountoulakis , David F. Gleich , Michael W. Mahoney

In the past decade analysis of big data has proven to be extremely valuable in many contexts. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a state-of-the-art approach which allows statistical computations while protecting each individual user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Björn Bebensee

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

Differentially private GNNs (Graph Neural Networks) have been recently studied to provide high accuracy in various tasks on graph data while strongly protecting user privacy. In particular, a recent study proposes an algorithm to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Seira Hidano , Takao Murakami

Local differential privacy (LDP) has become a central topic in data privacy research, offering strong privacy guarantees by perturbing user data at the source and removing the need for a trusted curator. However, the noise introduced by LDP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Caihong Qin , Yang Bai

We propose an algorithm for counting the number of cycles under local differential privacy for degeneracy-bounded input graphs. Numerous studies have focused on counting the number of triangles under the privacy notion, demonstrating that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn , Tetsuo Shibuya

Differential privacy (DP) has arisen as the state-of-the-art metric for quantifying individual privacy when sensitive data are analyzed, and it is starting to see practical deployment in organizations such as the US Census Bureau, Apple,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sameer Wagh , Xi He , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Prateek Mittal

Given a graph $G$ defined in a domain $\mathcal{G}$, we investigate locally differentially private mechanisms to release a degree sequence on $\mathcal{G}$ that accurately approximates the actual degree distribution. Existing solutions for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Xiaojian Zhang , Junqing Wang , Kerui Chen , Peiyuan Zhao , Huiyuan Bai

Local differential privacy (LDP) has recently become a popular privacy-preserving data collection technique protecting users' privacy. The main problem of data stream collection under LDP is the poor utility due to multi-item collection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ying Li , Xiaodong Lee , Botao Peng , Themis Palpanas , Jingan Xue

Local Differential Privacy (LDP) protocols enable the collection of randomized client messages for data analysis, without the necessity of a trusted data curator. Such protocols have been successfully deployed in real-world scenarios by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Bo Jiang , Wanrong Zhang , Donghang Lu , Jian Du , Qiang Yan

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni