Frequency Estimation under Local Differential Privacy
Summary: Unifies local differential privacy approaches for frequency estimation and heavy hitter discovery into a single framework, clarifying design tradeoffs. Extensive experiments on millions of users demonstrate that careful algorithm selection yields accurate, scalable frequency estimates for core data-management tasks. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Graham Cormode (University of Warwick)
- 2. Samuel Maddock (University of Warwick)
- 3. Carsten Maple (University of Warwick)
BibTeX Citation
@article{cormode_vldb21,
title = {{Frequency Estimation under Local Differential Privacy}},
author = {Cormode, Graham and Maddock, Samuel and Maple, Carsten},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '21},
volume = {14},
number = {11},
pages = {2046--2058},
doi = {10.14778/3476249.3476261},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3476249.3476261},
year = {2021}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,166 | LDP-IDS: Local Differential Privacy for Infinite Data Streams | 2022 | SIGMOD | 7.6752517e-05 |
| 5,746 | Federated Heavy Hitter Analytics with Local Differential Privacy | 2025 | SIGMOD | 6.1017514e-05 |
| 5,763 | LDPTrace: Locally Differentially Private Trajectory Synthesis | 2023 | VLDB | 6.0955612e-05 |
| 7,548 | Local Differentially Private Heavy Hitter Detection in Data Streams with Bounded Memory | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.6021153e-05 |
| 8,310 | TreeSensing: Linearly Compressing Sketches with Flexibility | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.4556836e-05 |
| 10,869 | Federated Data Distribution Shift Estimation | 2025 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,230 | AAA: an Adaptive Mechanism for Locally Differentially Private Mean Estimation | 2024 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,428 | On the Risks of Collecting Multidimensional Data Under Local Differential Privacy | 2023 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
Previous
Page 1 / 1
Next
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,542 | Privacy at Scale: Local Differential Privacy in Practice | 2018 | SIGMOD | 8.4460386e-05 |
| 3,121 | Answering Range Queries Under Local Differential Privacy | 2019 | VLDB | 7.7357038e-05 |
Previous
Page 1 / 1
Next
Semantically Similar Papers
| # | Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10,759 | Efficient and Accurate Differentially Private Cardinality Continual Releases | 2025 | SIGMOD |
| 2 | 3,121 | Answering Range Queries Under Local Differential Privacy | 2019 | VLDB |
| 3 | 2,749 | Estimating Numerical Distributions under Local Differential Privacy | 2020 | SIGMOD |
| 4 | 1,678 | Heavy Hitters and the Structure of Local Privacy | 2018 | PODS |
| 5 | 7,548 | Local Differentially Private Heavy Hitter Detection in Data Streams with Bounded Memory | 2024 | SIGMOD |
| 6 | 8,707 | Set-valued Data Publication with Local Privacy: Tight Error Bounds and Efficient Mechanisms | 2020 | VLDB |
| 7 | 5,746 | Federated Heavy Hitter Analytics with Local Differential Privacy | 2025 | SIGMOD |
| 8 | 10,838 | Privacy for Free: Leveraging Local Differential Privacy Perturbed Data from Multiple Services | 2025 | VLDB |
| 9 | 7,488 | Frequency Estimation Under Multiparty Differential Privacy: One-shot and Streaming | 2022 | VLDB |
| 10 | 11,428 | On the Risks of Collecting Multidimensional Data Under Local Differential Privacy | 2023 | VLDB |