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Local Differential Privacy (LDP) provides provable privacy protection for data collection without the assumption of the trusted data server. In the real-world scenario, different data have different privacy requirements due to the distinct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Xiaolan Gu , Ming Li , Li Xiong , Yang Cao

When collecting information, local differential privacy (LDP) alleviates privacy concerns of users because their private information is randomized before being sent it to the central aggregator. LDP imposes large amount of noise as each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Tianhao Wang , Bolin Ding , Min Xu , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Jingren Zhou , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

The development of Internet technology enables an analysis on the whole population rather than a certain number of samples, and leads to increasing requirement for privacy protection. Local differential privacy (LDP) is an effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-06 She Sun , Li Zhou , Xiaoran Yan

Local differential privacy (LDP) is increasingly employed in privacy-preserving machine learning to protect user data before sharing it with an untrusted aggregator. Most LDP methods assume that users possess only a single data record,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Behnoosh Zamanlooy , Mario Diaz , Shahab Asoodeh

Local Differential Privacy protocols are stochastic protocols used in data aggregation when individual users do not trust the data aggregator with their private data. In such protocols there is a fundamental tradeoff between user privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Zitao Li , Boris Škorić , Ninghui Li

Local differential privacy (LDP), a technique applying unbiased statistical estimations instead of real data, is often adopted in data collection. In particular, this technique is used with frequency oracles (FO) because it can protect each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Dan Zhao , Suyun Zhao , Ruixuan Liu , Cuiping Li , Wenjuan Liang , Hong Chen

We consider data release protocols for data $X=(S,U)$, where $S$ is sensitive; the released data $Y$ contains as much information about $X$ as possible, measured as $\operatorname{I}(X;Y)$, without leaking too much about $S$. We introduce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Milan Lopuhaä-Zwakenberg , Jasper Goseling

We investigate how to optimally design local differential privacy (LDP) mechanisms that reduce data unfairness and thereby improve fairness in downstream classification. We first derive a closed-form optimal mechanism for binary sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Hrad Ghoukasian , Shahab Asoodeh

This paper presents LDP-Fed, a novel federated learning system with a formal privacy guarantee using local differential privacy (LDP). Existing LDP protocols are developed primarily to ensure data privacy in the collection of single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Stacey Truex , Ling Liu , Ka-Ho Chow , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Wenqi Wei

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

This work examines a novel question: how much randomness is needed to achieve local differential privacy (LDP)? A motivating scenario is providing {\em multiple levels of privacy} to multiple analysts, either for distribution or for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Antonious M. Girgis , Deepesh Data , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Christina Fragouli , Suhas Diggavi

Longitudinal data tracking under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a challenging task. Baseline solutions that repeatedly invoke a protocol designed for one-time computation lead to linear decay in the privacy or utility guarantee with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Olga Ohrimenko , Anthony Wirth , Hao Wu

Centralized differential privacy has been successfully applied to quantum computing and information processing to protect privacy and avoid leaks in the connections between neighboring quantum states. Consequently, quantum local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Ji Guan

Most deep learning frameworks require users to pool their local data or model updates to a trusted server to train or maintain a global model. The assumption of a trusted server who has access to user information is ill-suited in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Lingjuan Lyu , Yitong Li , Xuanli He , Tong Xiao

Several randomization mechanisms for local differential privacy (LDP) (e.g., randomized response) are well-studied to improve the utility. However, recent studies show that LDP is generally vulnerable to malicious data providers in nature.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Fumiyuki Kato , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

The notion of Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enables users to answer sensitive questions while preserving their privacy. The basic LDP frequent oracle protocol enables the aggregator to estimate the frequency of any value. But when the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Tianhao Wang , Ninghui Li , Somesh Jha

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

Recent smart grid advancements enable near-realtime reporting of electricity consumption, raising concerns about consumer privacy. Differential privacy (DP) has emerged as a viable privacy solution, where a calculated amount of noise is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Khadija Hafeez , Mubashir Husain Rehmani , Sumita Mishra , Donna OShea

The emergence and evolution of Local Differential Privacy (LDP) and its various adaptations play a pivotal role in tackling privacy issues related to the vast amounts of data generated by intelligent devices, which are crucial for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Likun Qin , Tianshuo Qiu

In recent years, Local Differential Privacy (LDP), a robust privacy-preserving methodology, has gained widespread adoption in real-world applications. With LDP, users can perturb their data on their devices before sending it out for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Karima Makhlouf , Catuscia Palamidessi