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Decentralized min-max optimization allows multi-agent systems to collaboratively solve global min-max optimization problems by facilitating the exchange of model updates among neighboring agents, eliminating the need for a central server.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Yueyang Quan , Chang Wang , Shengjie Zhai , Minghong Fang , Zhuqing Liu

A basic problem in the design of privacy-preserving algorithms is the private maximization problem: the goal is to pick an item from a universe that (approximately) maximizes a data-dependent function, all under the constraint of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Daniel Hsu , Shuang Song

A central problem in differentially private data analysis is how to design efficient algorithms capable of answering large numbers of counting queries on a sensitive database. Counting queries of the form "What fraction of individual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Jonathan Ullman

Confidence intervals for the population mean of normally distributed data are some of the most standard statistical outputs one might want from a database. In this work we give practical differentially private algorithms for this task. We…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-01-09 Wenxin Du , Canyon Foot , Monica Moniot , Andrew Bray , Adam Groce

We consider the problem of privately releasing a class of queries that we call hierarchical count-of-counts histograms. Count-of-counts histograms partition the rows of an input table into groups (e.g., group of people in the same…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Yu-Hsuan Kuo , Cho-Chun Chiu , Daniel Kifer , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Differentially private synthetic data provide a powerful mechanism to enable data analysis while protecting sensitive information about individuals. However, when the data lie in a high-dimensional space, the accuracy of the synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yiyun He , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin , Yizhe Zhu

With the proliferation of training data, distributed machine learning (DML) is becoming more competent for large-scale learning tasks. However, privacy concerns have to be given priority in DML, since training data may contain sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Xin Wang , Hideaki Ishii , Linkang Du , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

Machine learning (ML) models have been shown to leak private information from their training datasets. Differential Privacy (DP), typically implemented through the differential private stochastic gradient descent algorithm (DP-SGD), has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Dariush Wahdany , Matthew Jagielski , Adam Dziedzic , Franziska Boenisch

Privacy-preserving distributed processing has recently attracted considerable attention. It aims to design solutions for conducting signal processing tasks over networks in a decentralized fashion without violating privacy. Many algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Qiongxiu Li , Jaron Skovsted Gundersen , Richard Heusdens , Mads Græsbøll Christensen

Confidence intervals are a fundamental tool for quantifying the uncertainty of parameters of interest. With the increase of data privacy awareness, developing a private version of confidence intervals has gained growing attention from both…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-12 Shurong Lin , Mark Bun , Marco Gaboardi , Eric D. Kolaczyk , Adam Smith

Privacy preservation is addressed for decentralized optimization, where $N$ agents cooperatively minimize the sum of $N$ convex functions private to these individual agents. In most existing decentralized optimization approaches,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-03 Chunlei Zhang , Muaz Ahmad , Yongqiang Wang

We study the computational cost of differential privacy in terms of memory efficiency. While the trade-off between accuracy and differential privacy is well-understood, the inherent cost of privacy regarding memory use remains largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alessandro Epasto , Xin Lyu , Pasin Manurangsi

We study differentially private (DP) algorithms for smooth stochastic minimax optimization, with stochastic minimization as a byproduct. The holy grail of these settings is to guarantee the optimal trade-off between the privacy and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Liang Zhang , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Sewoong Oh , Niao He

We introduce a new method for releasing answers to statistical queries with differential privacy, based on the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma. The key idea is to randomly project the query answers to a lower dimensional space so that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Aleksandar Nikolov

In this work we consider the problem of differentially private computation of quantiles for the data, especially the highest quantiles such as maximum, but with an unbounded range for the dataset. We show that this can be done efficiently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-10-17 David Durfee

The process of data mining with differential privacy produces results that are affected by two types of noise: sampling noise due to data collection and privacy noise that is designed to prevent the reconstruction of sensitive information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Yue Wang , Daniel Kifer , Jaewoo Lee

Numerical linear algebra plays an important role in computer science. In this paper, we initiate the study of performing linear algebraic tasks while preserving privacy when the data is streamed online. Our main focus is the space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jalaj Upadhyay

The collection of individuals' data has become commonplace in many industries. Local differential privacy (LDP) offers a rigorous approach to preserving privacy whereby the individual privatises their data locally, allowing only their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alex Mansbridge , Gregory Barbour , Davide Piras , Michael Murray , Christopher Frye , Ilya Feige , David Barber

Privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms are crucial for the increasingly common setting in which personal data, such as medical or financial records, are analyzed. We provide general techniques to produce privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-02-18 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Claire Monteleoni , Anand D. Sarwate

Differential privacy (DP) is a formal notion for quantifying the privacy loss of algorithms. Algorithms in the central model of DP achieve high accuracy but make the strongest trust assumptions whereas those in the local DP model make the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Rasmus Pagh