A comprehensive survey on local differential privacy

X Xiong, S Liu, D Li, Z Cai, X Niu - Security and Communication …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the advent of the era of big data, privacy issues have been becoming a hot topic in
public. Local differential privacy (LDP) is a state‐of‐the‐art privacy preservation technique …

Differentially private empirical risk minimization with non-convex loss functions

D Wang, C Chen, J Xu - International Conference on …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study the problem of Empirical Risk Minimization (ERM) with (smooth) non-convex loss
functions under the differential-privacy (DP) model. Existing approaches for this problem …

On differentially private stochastic convex optimization with heavy-tailed data

D Wang, H Xiao, S Devadas… - … Conference on Machine …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we consider the problem of designing Differentially Private (DP) algorithms for
Stochastic Convex Optimization (SCO) on heavy-tailed data. The irregularity of such data …

Empirical risk minimization in non-interactive local differential privacy revisited

D Wang, M Gaboardi, J Xu - Advances in Neural …, 2018 - proceedings.neurips.cc
In this paper, we revisit the Empirical Risk Minimization problem in the non-interactive local
model of differential privacy. In the case of constant or low dimensions ($ p\ll n $), we first …

On sparse linear regression in the local differential privacy model

D Wang, J Xu - International Conference on Machine …, 2019 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we study the sparse linear regression problem under the Local Differential
Privacy (LDP) model. We first show that polynomial dependency on the dimensionality $ p …

Differentially private empirical risk minimization with smooth non-convex loss functions: A non-stationary view

D Wang, J Xu - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial …, 2019 - ojs.aaai.org
In this paper, we study the Differentially Private Empirical Risk Minimization (DP-ERM)
problem with non-convex loss functions and give several upper bounds for the utility in …

Faster rates of private stochastic convex optimization

J Su, L Hu, D Wang - International Conference on …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we revisit the problem of Differentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization
(DP-SCO) and provide excess population risks for some special classes of functions that are …

Estimating smooth glm in non-interactive local differential privacy model with public unlabeled data

D Wang, H Zhang, M Gaboardi… - Algorithmic Learning …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we study the problem of estimating smooth Generalized Linear Models (GLM)
in the Non-interactive Local Differential Privacy (NLDP) model. Different from its classical …

Optimal Locally Private Nonparametric Classification with Public Data

Y Ma, H Yang - Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2024 - jmlr.org
In this work, we investigate the problem of public data assisted non-interactive Local
Differentially Private (LDP) learning with a focus on non-parametric classification. Under the …

Truthful and privacy-preserving generalized linear models

Y Qiu, J Liu, D Wang - Information and Computation, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper explores estimating Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) when agents are
strategic and privacy-conscious. We aim to design mechanisms that encourage truthful …