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Publications (10)

cs.CR2024

Provably Robust Watermarks for Open-Source Language Models

Miranda Christ, Sam Gunn, Tal Malkin +1

The recent explosion of high-quality language models has necessitated new methods for identifying AI-generated text. Watermarking is a leading solution and could prove to be an ess…

cs.LG2026

Certification of Machine Learning Models via Directional Sharpness

Gefei Tan, Adria Gascon, Sarah Meiklejohn +1

In machine learning, model certification has been identified as an important method for gaining assurance about a model's trustworthiness and quality. A model's quality is largely…

cs.CR2026

Engineering Robustness into Personal Agents with the AI Workflow Store

Roxana Geambasu, Mariana Raykova, Pierre Tholoniat +3

The dominant paradigm for AI agents is an "on-the-fly" loop in which agents synthesize plans and execute actions within seconds or minutes in response to user prompts. We argue tha…

cs.CY2025

A Risk Assessment Framework for Digital Identification Systems

Allison Woodruff, Dirk Balfanz, Will Drewry +1

We introduce a risk assessment framework for digital identification systems, as well as recommended best practices to enhance privacy, security, and other desirable properties in t…

cs.CR2019

Secure Computation for Machine Learning With SPDZ

Valerie Chen, Valerio Pastro, Mariana Raykova

Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is an area of cryptography that enables computation on sensitive data from multiple sources while maintaining privacy guarantees. However, theo…

cs.LG2021

Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning

Peter Kairouz, H. Brendan McMahan, Brendan Avent +56

Federated learning (FL) is a machine learning setting where many clients (e.g. mobile devices or whole organizations) collaboratively train a model under the orchestration of a cen…

cs.CR2020

Think Global, Act Local: Gossip and Client Audits in Verifiable Data Structures

Sarah Meiklejohn, Pavel Kalinnikov, Cindy S. Lin +4

In recent years, there has been increasing recognition of the benefits of having services provide auditable logs of data, as demonstrated by the deployment of Certificate Transpare…

cs.CY2023

UN Handbook on Privacy-Preserving Computation Techniques

David W. Archer, Borja de Balle Pigem, Dan Bogdanov +10

This paper describes privacy-preserving approaches for the statistical analysis. It describes motivations for privacy-preserving approaches for the statistical analysis of sensitiv…

cs.CR2025

On the Differential Privacy and Interactivity of Privacy Sandbox Reports

Badih Ghazi, Charlie Harrison, Arpana Hosabettu +8

The Privacy Sandbox initiative from Google includes APIs for enabling privacy-preserving advertising functionalities as part of the effort around limiting third-party cookies. In p…

cs.CR2024

Differentially Private Ad Conversion Measurement

John Delaney, Badih Ghazi, Charlie Harrison +6

In this work, we study ad conversion measurement, a central functionality in digital advertising, where an advertiser seeks to estimate advertiser website (or mobile app) conversio…