Tight Auditing of Differential Privacy in MST and AIM
Cryptography and Security
2026-04-21 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Abstract
State-of-the-art Differentially Private (DP) synthetic data generators such as MST and AIM are widely used, yet tightly auditing their privacy guarantees remains challenging. We introduce a Gaussian Differential Privacy (GDP)-based auditing framework that measures privacy via the full false-positive/false-negative tradeoff. Applied to MST and AIM under worst-case settings, our method provides the first tight audits in the strong-privacy regime. For , we obtain vs. implied , showing a small theory-practice gap. Our code is publicly available: https://github.com/sassoftware/dpmm.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.18352,
title = {Tight Auditing of Differential Privacy in MST and AIM},
author = {Georgi Ganev and Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai and Bogdan Kulynych},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.18352},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Accepted to the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy Workshop (TPDP 2026)