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We present new differentially private algorithms for learning a large-margin halfspace. In contrast to previous algorithms, which are based on either differentially private simulations of the statistical query model or on private convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Huy L. Nguyen , Jonathan Ullman , Lydia Zakynthinou

We lay theoretical foundations for new database release mechanisms that allow third-parties to construct consistent estimators of population statistics, while ensuring that the privacy of each individual contributing to the database is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-01 Matej Balog , Ilya Tolstikhin , Bernhard Schölkopf

Kernel two-sample testing is a useful statistical tool in determining whether data samples arise from different distributions without imposing any parametric assumptions on those distributions. However, raw data samples can expose sensitive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-02 Anant Raj , Ho Chung Leon Law , Dino Sejdinovic , Mijung Park

We introduce the problem of releasing sensitive data under differential privacy when the privacy level is subject to change over time. Existing work assumes that privacy level is determined by the system designer as a fixed value before…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Fragkiskos Koufogiannis , Shuo Han , George J. Pappas

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

Differentially private algorithms for answering sets of predicate counting queries on a sensitive database have many applications. Organizations that collect individual-level data, such as statistical agencies and medical institutions, use…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Ryan McKenna , Gerome Miklau , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Motivated by privacy concerns in long-term longitudinal studies in medical and social science research, we study the problem of continually releasing differentially private synthetic data from longitudinal data collections. We introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mark Bun , Marco Gaboardi , Marcel Neunhoeffer , Wanrong Zhang

In this work, we propose a differentially private algorithm for publishing matrices aggregated from sparse vectors. These matrices include social network adjacency matrices, user-item interaction matrices in recommendation systems, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn , Tetsuo Shibuya

Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental unsupervised machine learning task with the aim of organizing data into a hierarchy of clusters. Many applications of hierarchical clustering involve sensitive user information, therefore motivating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Jalaj Upadhyay , Chen Wang , Samson Zhou

Data about individuals may contain private and sensitive information. The differential privacy (DP) was proposed to address the problem of protecting the privacy of each individual while keeping useful information about a population.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li

Differential privacy is a mathematical notion of data privacy that has fast become the de facto standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. Recently a lot of work has focused on differential privacy in the quantum setting. Continuing on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Arghya Mukherjee , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Gavin K. Brennen

The sparse vector technique is a powerful differentially private primitive that allows an analyst to check whether queries in a stream are greater or lesser than a threshold. This technique has a unique property -- the algorithm works by…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Yan Chen , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Privacy-protected microdata are often the desired output of a differentially private algorithm since microdata is familiar and convenient for downstream users. However, there is a statistical price for this kind of convenience. We show that…

We study the problem of answering \emph{$k$-way marginal} queries on a database $D \in (\{0,1\}^d)^n$, while preserving differential privacy. The answer to a $k$-way marginal query is the fraction of the database's records $x \in \{0,1\}^d$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-04 Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran , Justin Thaler , Jonathan Ullman , Andrew Wan

The increasing prevalence of high-dimensional data across various applications has raised significant privacy concerns in statistical inference. In this paper, we propose a differentially private integrated statistic for testing…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-04 Shiwei Sang , Yicheng Zeng , Xuehu Zhu , Shurong Zheng

Despite much study, the computational complexity of differential privacy remains poorly understood. In this paper we consider the computational complexity of accurately answering a family $Q$ of statistical queries over a data universe $X$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Lucas Kowalczyk , Tal Malkin , Jonathan Ullman , Mark Zhandry

This paper studies privacy in the context of complex decision support queries composed of multiple conditions on different aggregate statistics combined using disjunction and conjunction operators. Utility requirements for such queries…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Nada Lahjouji , Sameera Ghayyur , Xi He , Sharad Mehrotra

Releasing the result size of conjunctive queries and graph pattern queries under differential privacy (DP) has received considerable attention in the literature, but existing solutions do not offer any optimality guarantees. We provide the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wei Dong , Ke Yi

Differential Privacy (DP) is a probabilistic framework that protects privacy while preserving data utility. To protect the privacy of the individuals in the dataset, DP requires adding a precise amount of noise to a statistic of interest;…

Computation · Statistics 2025-05-05 Yu-Wei Chen , Pranav Sanghi , Jordan Awan

Differential privacy (DP) data synthesizers support public release of sensitive information, offering theoretical guarantees for privacy but limited evidence of utility in practical settings. Utility is typically measured as the error on…