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Catuscia Palamidessi

6 accepted papers

2026

Estimating the True Distribution of Data Collected with Randomized Response

AAAI 2026technical

Randomized Response (RR) is a protocol designed to collect and analyze categorical data with local differential privacy guarantees. It has been used as a building block of mechanisms deployed by Big tech companies to collect app or web users

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

Protection against Source Inference Attacks in Federated Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Federated Learning (FL) was initially proposed as a privacy-preserving machine learning paradigm. However, FL has been shown to be susceptible to a series of privacy attacks. Recently, there has been concern about the Source Inference Attack (SIA), where an honest-but-curious central server attempts…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Online Sensitivity Optimization in Differentially Private Learning

AAAI 2024technical

Training differentially private machine learning models requires constraining an individual's contribution to the optimization process. This is achieved by clipping the 2-norm of their gradient at a predetermined threshold prior to averaging and batch sanitization. This selection adversely influence…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2022

Leveraging Adversarial Examples To Quantify Membership Information Leakage

CVPR 2022poster

The use of personal data for training machine learning systems comes with a privacy threat and measuring the level of privacy of a model is one of the major challenges in machine learning today. Identifying training data based on a trained model is a standard way of measuring the privacy risks induc…

Cited by 26PDFcodeScholar
2022

On the Impossibility of Non-trivial Accuracy in Presence of Fairness Constraints

AAAI 2022technical

One of the main concerns about fairness in machine learning (ML) is that, in order to achieve it, one may have to trade off some accuracy. To overcome this issue, Hardt et al. proposed the notion of equality of opportunity (EO), which is compatible with maximal accuracy when the target label is dete…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2021

DOCTOR: A Simple Method for Detecting Misclassification Errors

NeurIPS 2021spotlight

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have shown to perform very well on large scale object recognition problems and lead to widespread use for real-world applications, including situations where DNN are implemented as “black boxes”. A promising approach to secure their use is to accept decisions that are li…