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We give a fast algorithm to optimally compose privacy guarantees of differentially private (DP) algorithms to arbitrary accuracy. Our method is based on the notion of privacy loss random variables to quantify the privacy loss of DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Sivakanth Gopi , Yin Tat Lee , Lukas Wutschitz

Differential privacy provides a formal framework for releasing statistical estimators that limit how much any single observation can influence the output, by injecting calibrated random noise. We study differentially private estimation in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Joowon Lee , Guanhua Chen

We address differential privacy for fully distributed optimization subject to a shared inequality constraint. By co-designing the distributed optimization mechanism and the differential-privacy noise injection mechanism, we propose the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-04 Yongqiang Wang , Angelia Nedic

Linear programming is a fundamental tool in a wide range of decision systems. However, without privacy protections, sharing the solution to a linear program may reveal information about the underlying data used to formulate it, which may be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Alexander Benvenuti , Brendan Bialy , Miriam Dennis , Matthew Hale

This paper considers a distributed multi-agent optimization problem, with the global objective consisting of the sum of local objective functions of the agents. The agents solve the optimization problem using local computation and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Shripad Gade , Nitin H. Vaidya

In this work, we give a new technique for analyzing individualized privacy accounting via the following simple observation: if an algorithm is one-sided add-DP, then its subsampled variant satisfies two-sided DP. From this, we obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Adam Sealfon

In distributed optimization and iterative consensus literature, a standard problem is for $N$ agents to minimize a function $f$ over a subset of Euclidean space, where the cost function is expressed as a sum $\sum f_i$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-14 Zhenqi Huang , Sayan Mitra , Nitin Vaidya

Across many disciplines, causal inference often relies on randomized experiments with binary outcomes. In such experiments, the Fisher randomization test provides exact, assumption-free tests for causal effects. Sometimes the outcomes are…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-16 Qingyang Sun , Jerome P. Reiter

Differential privacy (DP), provides a framework for provable privacy protection against arbitrary adversaries, while allowing the release of summary statistics and synthetic data. We address the problem of releasing a noisy real-valued…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-04 Jordan Awan , Aleksandra Slavkovic

We study the relationship between two desiderata of algorithms in statistical inference and machine learning: differential privacy and robustness to adversarial data corruptions. Their conceptual similarity was first observed by Dwork and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Hilal Asi , Jonathan Ullman , Lydia Zakynthinou

The increased application of machine learning (ML) in sensitive domains requires protecting the training data through privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). DP requires to specify a uniform privacy level $\varepsilon$ that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Krishna Acharya , Franziska Boenisch , Rakshit Naidu , Juba Ziani

Differential privacy has been used to privately calculate numerous network properties, but existing approaches often require the development of a new privacy mechanism for each property of interest. Therefore, we present a framework for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Huaiyuan Rao , Calvin Hawkins , Alexander Benvenuti , Matthew Hale

We study a new framework for designing differentially private (DP) mechanisms via randomized graph colorings, called rainbow differential privacy. In this framework, datasets are nodes in a graph, and two neighboring datasets are connected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Yuzhou Gu , Ziqi Zhou , Onur Günlü , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Parastoo Sadeghi , Muriel Médard , Rafael F. Schaefer

In general, it is challenging to release differentially private versions of survey-weighted statistics with low error for acceptable privacy loss. This is because weighted statistics from complex sample survey data can be more sensitive to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Jeremy Seeman , Yajuan Si , Jerome P Reiter

Differential privacy is widely adopted to provide provable privacy guarantees in data analysis. We consider the problem of combining public and private data (and, more generally, data with heterogeneous privacy needs) for estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Cecilia Ferrando , Jennifer Gillenwater , Alex Kulesza

We provide computationally efficient, differentially private algorithms for the classical regression settings of Least Squares Fitting, Binary Regression and Linear Regression with unbounded covariates. Prior to our work, privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jason Milionis , Alkis Kalavasis , Dimitris Fotakis , Stratis Ioannidis

Deep neural networks with their large number of parameters are highly flexible learning systems. The high flexibility in such networks brings with some serious problems such as overfitting, and regularization is used to address this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-20 Beyza Ermis , Ali Taylan Cemgil

In this paper, we study the problem of estimating the variance and covariance of datasets under differential privacy in the add-remove model. While estimation in the swap model has been extensively studied in the literature, the add-remove…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-08 Shokichi Takakura , Seng Pei Liew , Satoshi Hasegawa

In this brief, we present an enhanced privacy-preserving distributed estimation algorithm, referred to as the ``Double-Private Algorithm," which combines the principles of both differential privacy (DP) and cryptography. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mehdi Korki , Fatemehsadat Hosseiniamin , Hadi Zayyani , Mehdi Bekrani

This paper considers the $\varepsilon$-differentially private (DP) release of an approximate cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the samples in a dataset. We assume that the true (approximate) CDF is obtained after lumping the data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-07 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Anshoo Tandon , Abhay Sharma