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This paper presents ongoing research focused on improving the utility of data protected by Global Differential Privacy(DP) in the scenario of summary statistics. Our approach is based on predictions on how an analyst will use statistics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Henry C. Nunes , Marlon P. da Silva , Charles V. Neu , Avelino F. Zorzo

In the \emph{shuffle model} of differential privacy, data-holding users send randomized messages to a secure shuffler, the shuffler permutes the messages, and the resulting collection of messages must be differentially private with regard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Victor Balcer , Albert Cheu , Matthew Joseph , Jieming Mao

Federated learning (FL) enhances privacy by keeping user data on local devices. However, emerging attacks have demonstrated that the updates shared by users during training can reveal significant information about their data. This has…

High quality data is needed to unlock the full potential of AI for end users. However finding new sources of such data is getting harder: most publicly-available human generated data will soon have been used. Additionally, publicly…

As the use of differential privacy (DP) becomes widespread, the development of effective tools for reasoning about the privacy guarantee becomes increasingly critical. In pursuit of this goal, we demonstrate novel relationships between DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zeki Kazan , Sagar Sharma , Wanrong Zhang , Bo Jiang , Qiang Yan

We present new auditors to assess Differential Privacy (DP) of an algorithm based on output samples. Such empirical auditors are common to check for algorithmic correctness and implementation bugs. Most existing auditors are batch-based or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tim Kutta , Martin Dunsche , Yu Wei , Vassilis Zikas

We present a quantum protocol which securely and implicitly implements a random shuffle to realize differential privacy in the shuffle model. The shuffle model of differential privacy amplifies privacy achievable via local differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Hassan Jameel Asghar , Arghya Mukherjee , Gavin K. Brennen

Differential privacy (DP) provides a robust model to achieve privacy guarantees for released information. We examine the protection potency of sanitized multi-dimensional frequency distributions via DP randomization mechanisms against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Fang Liu , Xingyuan Zhao

Differential privacy (DP), as a rigorous mathematical definition quantifying privacy leakage, has become a well-accepted standard for privacy protection. Combined with powerful machine learning techniques, differentially private machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Chengkun Wei , Minghu Zhao , Zhikun Zhang , Min Chen , Wenlong Meng , Bo Liu , Yuan Fan , Wenzhi Chen

Federated learning has emerged as an attractive approach to protect data privacy by eliminating the need for sharing clients' data while reducing communication costs compared with centralized machine learning algorithms. However, recent…

Graph analysis has become increasingly popular with the prevalence of big data and machine learning. Traditional graph data analysis methods often assume the existence of a trusted third party to collect and store the graph data, which does…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Xi He , Kai Huang , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Differential Privacy (DP) is the de facto standard for reasoning about the privacy guarantees of a training algorithm. Despite the empirical observation that DP reduces the vulnerability of models to existing membership inference (MI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Anvith Thudi , Ilia Shumailov , Franziska Boenisch , Nicolas Papernot

The shuffle model of differential privacy has gained significant interest as an intermediate trust model between the standard local and central models [EFMRTT19; CSUZZ19]. A key result in this model is that randomly shuffling locally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Vitaly Feldman , Audra McMillan , Kunal Talwar

Differential privacy (DP) is a widely applied paradigm for releasing data while maintaining user privacy. Its success is to a large part due to its composition property that guarantees privacy even in the case of multiple data releases.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Valentin Hartmann , Vincent Bindschaedler , Robert West

Federated Learning (FL) was initially proposed as a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm. However, FL has been shown to be susceptible to a series of privacy attacks. Recently, there has been concern about the Source Inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Andreas Athanasiou , Kangsoo Jung , Catuscia Palamidessi

Shuffle model of differential privacy is a novel distributed privacy model based on a combination of local privacy mechanisms and a secure shuffler. It has been shown that the additional randomisation provided by the shuffler improves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Antti Koskela , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Honkela

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

The use of machine learning (ML) has become increasingly prevalent in various domains, highlighting the importance of understanding and ensuring its safety. One pressing concern is the vulnerability of ML applications to model stealing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Ganghua Wang , Yuhong Yang , Jie Ding

Differential privacy (DP) enables private data analysis. In a typical DP deployment, controllers manage individuals' sensitive data and are responsible for answering analysts' queries while protecting individuals' privacy. They do so by…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiru Zhu , Raul Castro Fernandez

Iterative clustering algorithms help us to learn the insights behind the data. Unfortunately, this may allow adversaries to infer the privacy of individuals with some background knowledge. In the worst case, the adversaries know the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Zhigang Lu , Hong Shen