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A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

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The Quantum CONGEST model is a variant of the CONGEST model, where messages consist of $O(\log(n))$ qubits. We give a general framework for implementing quantum query algorithms in Quantum CONGEST, using the concept of parallel-queries. We…

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We characterize the minimum noise amplitude and power for noise-adding mechanisms in $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy for single real-valued query function. We derive new lower bounds using the duality of linear programming, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Quan Geng , Wei Ding , Ruiqi Guo , Sanjiv Kumar

Much of the literature on differential privacy focuses on item-level privacy, where loosely speaking, the goal is to provide privacy per item or training example. However, recently many practical applications such as federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Yuhan Liu , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Felix Yu , Sanjiv Kumar , Michael Riley

Given a dataset of $n$ user-contributed strings, each of length at most $\ell$, a key problem is how to identify all frequent substrings while preserving each user's privacy. Recent work by Bernardini et al. (PODS'25) introduced a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Peaker Guo , Rayne Holland , Hao Wu

We present new theoretical results on differentially private data release useful with respect to any target class of counting queries, coupled with experimental results on a variety of real world data sets. Specifically, we study a simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-03-16 Moritz Hardt , Katrina Ligett , Frank McSherry

Differential privacy is a framework for privately releasing summaries of a database. Previous work has focused mainly on methods for which the output is a finite dimensional vector, or an element of some discrete set. We develop methods for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-03-13 Rob Hall , Alessandro Rinaldo , Larry Wasserman

Distributed stochastic gradient descent is an important subroutine in distributed learning. A setting of particular interest is when the clients are mobile devices, where two important concerns are communication efficiency and the privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Naman Agarwal , Ananda Theertha Suresh , Felix Yu , Sanjiv Kumar , H. Brendan Mcmahan

We study the problem of efficiently generating differentially private synthetic data that approximate the statistical properties of an underlying sensitive dataset. In recent years, there has been a growing line of work that approaches this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Terrance Liu , Jingwu Tang , Giuseppe Vietri , Zhiwei Steven Wu

This article establishes a method to answer a finite set of linear queries on a given dataset while ensuring differential privacy. To achieve this, we formulate the corresponding task as a saddle-point problem, i.e. an optimization problem…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-11-05 Giorgio Micali , Clement Lezane , Annika Betken

Efficiency is a key issue in any real implementation of a cryptographic protocol since the physical resources are not unlimited. We will first show that Quantum Key Distribution is possible with an "Entanglement based" scheme with NPPT…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Carles Rodó

We consider the problem of computing tight privacy guarantees for the composition of subsampled differentially private mechanisms. Recent algorithms can numerically compute the privacy parameters to arbitrary precision but must be carefully…

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Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is a standard method for enforcing privacy in deep learning, typically using the Gaussian mechanism to perturb gradient updates. However, conventional mechanisms such as Gaussian…

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We provide a new algorithmic framework for differentially private estimation of general functions that adapts to the hardness of the underlying dataset. We build upon previous work that gives a paradigm for selecting an output through the…

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Many data applications involve counting queries, where a client specifies a feasible range of variables and a database returns the corresponding item counts. A program that produces the counts of different queries often risks leaking…

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$ $In its usual form, Grover's quantum search algorithm uses $O(\sqrt{N})$ queries and $O(\sqrt{N} \log N)$ other elementary gates to find a solution in an $N$-bit database. Grover in 2002 showed how to reduce the number of other gates to…

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We propose a quantum algorithm for closest pattern matching which allows us to search for as many distinct patterns as we wish in a given string (database), requiring a query function per symbol of the pattern alphabet. This represents a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Mateus , Y. Omar

We study the canonical statistical task of computing the principal component from $n$ i.i.d.~data in $d$ dimensions under $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-differential privacy. Although extensively studied in literature, existing solutions fall short…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Xiyang Liu , Weihao Kong , Prateek Jain , Sewoong Oh

Bayesian inference is an important technique throughout statistics. The essence of Beyesian inference is to derive the posterior belief updated from prior belief by the learned information, which is a set of differentially private answers…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-11-12 Yonghui Xiao , Li Xiong

Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) is a single-parameter family of privacy notions that provides coherent guarantees to avoid the exposure of sensitive individual information. Despite the extra interpretability and tighter bounds under…

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