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We consider a collaborative learning scenario in which multiple data-owners wish to jointly train a logistic regression model, while keeping their individual datasets private from the other parties. We propose COPML, a fully-decentralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Jinhyun So , Basak Guler , A. Salman Avestimehr

We study differential privacy (DP) in a multi-party setting where each party only trusts a (known) subset of the other parties with its data. Specifically, given a trust graph where vertices correspond to parties and neighbors are mutually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Serena Wang

In the task of differentially private (DP) continual counting, we receive a stream of increments and our goal is to output an approximate running total of these increments, without revealing too much about any specific increment. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , H. Brendan McMahan , Krishna Pillutla , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

Cross-attention has emerged as a cornerstone module in modern artificial intelligence, underpinning critical applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), system prompting, and guided stable diffusion. However, this is a rising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yekun Ke , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) do not preserve privacy at inference-time. The LLM's outputs can inadvertently reveal information about the model's context, which presents a privacy challenge when the LLM is augmented via tools or databases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rushil Thareja , Preslav Nakov , Praneeth Vepakomma , Nils Lukas

Delegating large-scale computations to service providers is a common practice which raises privacy concerns. This paper studies information-theoretic privacy-preserving delegation of data to a service provider, who may further delegate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Zirui Deng , Vinayak Ramkumar , Netanel Raviv

Consider the setup where $n$ parties are each given a number $x_i \in \mathbb{F}_q$ and the goal is to compute the sum $\sum_i x_i$ in a secure fashion and with as little communication as possible. We study this problem in the anonymized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Badih Ghazi , Pasin Manurangsi , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker

We present a privacy-preserving telemetry aggregation scheme. Our underlying frequency estimation routine works within the framework of differential privacy. The design philosophy follows a client-server architecture. Furthermore, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Kenneth Odoh

We design the first node-differentially private algorithm for approximating the number of connected components in a graph. Given a database representing an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a privacy parameter $\varepsilon$, our algorithm runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Iden Kalemaj , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

We introduce the problem of Private Linear Transformation (PLT). This problem includes a single (or multiple) remote server(s) storing (identical copies of) $K$ messages and a user who wants to compute $L$ linear combinations of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-07 Nahid Esmati , Anoosheh Heidarzadeh , Alex Sprintson

Privacy is a major issue in learning from distributed data. Recently the cryptographic literature has provided several tools for this task. However, these tools either reduce the quality/accuracy of the learning algorithm---e.g., by adding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Maksim Tsikhanovich , Malik Magdon-Ismail , Muhammad Ishaq , Vassilis Zikas

Privacy preserving multi-party computation has many applications in areas such as medicine and online advertisements. In this work, we propose a framework for distributed, secure machine learning among untrusted individuals. The framework…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yunhui Long , Tanmay Gangwani , Haris Mughees , Carl Gunter

To detect frauds from some internal participants or external attackers, some verifiable threshold quantum secret sharing schemes have been proposed. In this paper, we present a new verifiable threshold structure based on a single qubit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Dan-Li Zhi , Zhi-Hui Li , Zhao-Wei Han , Li-Juan Liu

We introduce the concurrent shuffle model of differential privacy. In this model we have multiple concurrent shufflers permuting messages from different, possibly overlapping, batches of users. Similarly to the standard (single) shuffle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Jay Tenenbaum , Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour , Uri Stemmer

Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) can improve the security and privacy of data owners while allowing analysts to perform high quality analytics. Secure aggregation is a secure distributed mechanism to support federated deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Timothy Stevens , Joseph Near , Christian Skalka

Differential privacy (DP) can be achieved in a distributed manner, where multiple parties add independent noise such that their sum protects the overall dataset with DP. A common technique here is for each party to sample their noise from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Charlie Harrison , Pasin Manurangsi

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging privacy preserving machine learning protocol that allows multiple devices to collaboratively train a shared global model without revealing their private local data. Non-parametric models like gradient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Hangyu Zhu , Rui Wang , Yaochu Jin , Kaitai Liang

Computing the principal component (PC) of the adjacency matrix of an undirected graph has several applications ranging from identifying key vertices for influence maximization and controlling diffusion processes, to discovering densely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Alireza Khayatian , Anil Vullikanti , Aritra Konar

Given a collection of vectors $x^{(1)},\dots,x^{(n)} \in \{0,1\}^d$, the selection problem asks to report the index of an "approximately largest" entry in $x=\sum_{j=1}^n x^{(j)}$. Selection abstracts a host of problems--in machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Ivan Damgård , Hannah Keller , Boel Nelson , Claudio Orlandi , Rasmus Pagh

Striking a balance between protecting data privacy and enabling collaborative computation is a critical challenge for distributed machine learning. While privacy-preserving techniques for federated learning have been extensively developed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Fatemeh Jafarian Dehkordi , Elahe Vedadi , Alireza Feizbakhsh , Yasaman Keshtkarjahromi , Hulya Seferoglu