Collecting and analyzing multidimensional data with local differential privacy

N Wang, X Xiao, Y Yang, J Zhao, SC Hui… - 2019 IEEE 35th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Local differential privacy (LDP) is a recently proposed privacy standard for collecting and
analyzing data, which has been used, eg, in the Chrome browser, iOS and macOS. In LDP …

Optimal schemes for discrete distribution estimation under locally differential privacy

M Ye, A Barg - IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the minimax estimation problem of a discrete distribution with support size k
under privacy constraints. A privatization scheme is applied to each raw sample …

Locally private graph neural networks

S Sajadmanesh, D Gatica-Perez - … of the 2021 ACM SIGSAC conference …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in learning node
representations for various graph inference tasks. However, learning over graph data can …

Federated heavy hitters discovery with differential privacy

W Zhu, P Kairouz, B McMahan… - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
The discovery of heavy hitters (most frequent items) in user-generated data streams drives
improvements in the app and web ecosystems, but can incur substantial privacy risks if not …

Locally differentially private heavy hitter identification

T Wang, N Li, S Jha - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The notion of Local Differential Privacy (LDP) enables users to answer sensitive questions
while preserving their privacy. The basic LDP frequency oracle protocol enables the …

Differentially private testing of identity and closeness of discrete distributions

J Acharya, Z Sun, H Zhang - Advances in Neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study the fundamental problems of identity testing (goodness of fit), and closeness
testing (two sample test) of distributions over $ k $ elements, under differential privacy. While …

[HTML][HTML] Add noise to remove noise: Local differential privacy for feature selection

M Alishahi, V Moghtadaiee, H Navidan - Computers & Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Feature selection has become significantly important for data analysis. It selects the most
informative features describing the data to filter out the noise, complexity, and over-fitting …

Test without trust: Optimal locally private distribution testing

J Acharya, C Canonne, C Freitag… - The 22nd International …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the problem of distribution testing when the samples can only be accessed using a
locally differentially private mechanism and focus on two representative testing questions of …

Towards sparse federated analytics: Location heatmaps under distributed differential privacy with secure aggregation

E Bagdasaryan, P Kairouz, S Mellem, A Gascón… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
We design a scalable algorithm to privately generate location heatmaps over decentralized
data from millions of user devices. It aims to ensure differential privacy before data becomes …

Linear queries estimation with local differential privacy

R Bassily - The 22nd International Conference on Artificial …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the problem of estimating a set of d linear queries with respect to some unknown
distribution p over a domain $[J] $ based on a sensitive data set of n individuals under the …