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Minimizing both power fluctuations and energy waste in an electrical grid is a central challenge to energy policy. Any discrepancy between power production and loads may lead to inefficiencies and instability in the system. Right now, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 H. Grebel

The increasing demand for privacy-preserving data analytics in various domains necessitates solutions for synthetic data generation that rigorously uphold privacy standards. We introduce the DP-FedTabDiff framework, a novel integration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Smart grids are a valuable data source to study consumer behavior and guide energy policy decisions. In particular, time-series of power consumption over geographical areas are essential in deciding the optimal placement of expensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Sina Shaham , Gabriel Ghinita , Bhaskar Krishnamachari , Cyrus Shahabi

There has been a large number of contributions on privacy-preserving smart metering with Differential Privacy, addressing questions from actual enforcement at the smart meter to billing at the energy provider. However, exploitation is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Günther Eibl , Kaibin Bao , Philip-William Grassal , Daniel Bernau , Hartmut Schmeck

Differential privacy (DP) enables safe data release, with synthetic data generation emerging as a common approach in recent years. Yet standard synthesizers preserve all dependencies in the data, including spurious correlations between…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Naeim Ghahramanpour , Mostafa Milani

Differential privacy (DP) has been accepted as a rigorous criterion for measuring the privacy protection offered by random mechanisms used to obtain statistics or, as we will study here, synthetic datasets from confidential data. Methods to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-09 Leila Nombo , Anne-Sophie Charest

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

Differential privacy has been used to privately calculate numerous network properties, but existing approaches often require the development of a new privacy mechanism for each property of interest. Therefore, we present a framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Huaiyuan Rao , Calvin Hawkins , Alexander Benvenuti , Matthew Hale

A smart grid is an advanced method for supplying electricity to the consumers alleviating the limitations of the existing system. It causes frequent meter reading transmission from the end-user to the supplier. This frequent data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Mohammad Saidur Rahman

Differential privacy (DP) is a popular mechanism for training machine learning models with bounded leakage about the presence of specific points in the training data. The cost of differential privacy is a reduction in the model's accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Noisy gradient descent and its variants are the predominant algorithms for differentially private machine learning. It is a fundamental question to quantify their privacy leakage, yet tight characterizations remain open even in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Jinho Bok , Weijie Su , Jason M. Altschuler

While location trajectories offer valuable insights, they also reveal sensitive personal information. Differential Privacy (DP) offers formal protection, but achieving a favourable utility-privacy trade-off remains challenging. Recent works…

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We consider the problem of privately releasing aggregated network statistics obtained from solving a DC optimal power flow (OPF) problem. It is shown that the mechanism that determines the noise distribution parameters are linked to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Fengyu Zhou , James Anderson , Steven H. Low

Creation of a synthetic dataset that faithfully represents the data distribution and simultaneously preserves privacy is a major research challenge. Many space partitioning based approaches have emerged in recent years for answering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Eleonora Kreačić , Navid Nouri , Vamsi K. Potluru , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

Concern about how to aggregate sensitive user data without compromising individual privacy is a major barrier to greater availability of data. The model of differential privacy has emerged as an accepted model to release sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Graham Cormode , Tejas Kulkarni , Divesh Srivastava

In the recent years, we have observed three significant trends in control systems: a renewed interest in data-driven control design, the abundance of cloud computational services and the importance of preserving privacy for the system under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-22 Teimour Hosseinalizadeh , Nima Monshizadeh

Many data mining and analytical tasks rely on the abstraction of networks (graphs) to summarize relational structures among individuals (nodes). Since relational data are often sensitive, we aim to seek effective approaches to generate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Carl Yang , Haonan Wang , Ke Zhang , Liang Chen , Lichao Sun

Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for privacy-preserving data analysis. Changing the hyperparameters of a differentially private algorithm allows one to trade off privacy and utility in a principled way. Quantifying this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-23 Brendan Avent , Javier Gonzalez , Tom Diethe , Andrei Paleyes , Borja Balle

The graph continual release model of differential privacy seeks to produce differentially private solutions to graph problems under a stream of edge updates where new private solutions are released after each update. Thus far, previously…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Alessandro Epasto , Quanquan C. Liu , Tamalika Mukherjee , Felix Zhou

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu