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We study the problem of estimating mixtures of Gaussians under the constraint of differential privacy (DP). Our main result is that $\text{poly}(k,d,1/\alpha,1/\varepsilon,\log(1/\delta))$ samples are sufficient to estimate a mixture of $k$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-24 Mohammad Afzali , Hassan Ashtiani , Christopher Liaw

We study the problem of learning mixtures of Gaussians with approximate differential privacy. We prove that roughly $kd^2 + k^{1.5} d^{1.75} + k^2 d$ samples suffice to learn a mixture of $k$ arbitrary $d$-dimensional Gaussians up to low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hassan Ashtiani , Mahbod Majid , Shyam Narayanan

We study a basic private estimation problem: each of $n$ users draws a single i.i.d. sample from an unknown Gaussian distribution, and the goal is to estimate the mean of this Gaussian distribution while satisfying local differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Matthew Joseph , Janardhan Kulkarni , Jieming Mao , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We present novel, computationally efficient, and differentially private algorithms for two fundamental high-dimensional learning problems: learning a multivariate Gaussian and learning a product distribution over the Boolean hypercube in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Gautam Kamath , Jerry Li , Vikrant Singhal , Jonathan Ullman

In this work, we give efficient algorithms for privately estimating a Gaussian distribution in both pure and approximate differential privacy (DP) models with optimal dependence on the dimension in the sample complexity. In the pure DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Daniel Alabi , Pravesh K. Kothari , Pranay Tankala , Prayaag Venkat , Fred Zhang

We consider the problem of learning mixtures of Gaussians under the constraint of approximate differential privacy. We prove that $\widetilde{O}(k^2 d \log^{3/2}(1/\delta) / \alpha^2 \varepsilon)$ samples are sufficient to learn a mixture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Ishaq Aden-Ali , Hassan Ashtiani , Christopher Liaw

Given a dataset of $n$ i.i.d. samples from an unknown distribution $P$, we consider the problem of generating a sample from a distribution that is close to $P$ in total variation distance, under the constraint of differential privacy (DP).…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Badih Ghazi , Xiao Hu , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

We consider the problem of private density estimation for mixtures of unrestricted high dimensional Gaussians in the agnostic setting. We prove the first upper bound on the sample complexity of this problem. Previously, private learnability…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-08 Mohammad Afzali , Hassan Ashtiani , Christopher Liaw

We provide the first $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}\left(d\right)$-sample algorithm for sampling from unbounded Gaussian distributions under the constraint of $\left(\varepsilon, \delta\right)$-differential privacy. This is a quadratic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Valentio Iverson , Gautam Kamath , Argyris Mouzakis

We study the optimal sample complexity of a given workload of linear queries under the constraints of differential privacy. The sample complexity of a query answering mechanism under error parameter $\alpha$ is the smallest $n$ such that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Assimakis Kattis , Aleksandar Nikolov

We study the problem of private distribution learning with access to public data. In this setup, which we refer to as public-private learning, the learner is given public and private samples drawn from an unknown distribution $p$ belonging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shai Ben-David , Alex Bie , Clément L. Canonne , Gautam Kamath , Vikrant Singhal

We obtain a tight distribution-specific characterization of the sample complexity of large-margin classification with L2 regularization: We introduce the margin-adapted dimension, which is a simple function of the second order statistics of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-19 Sivan Sabato , Nathan Srebro , Naftali Tishby

We prove new lower bounds for statistical estimation tasks under the constraint of $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy. First, we provide tight lower bounds for private covariance estimation of Gaussian distributions. We show that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Gautam Kamath , Argyris Mouzakis , Vikrant Singhal

We provide a differentially private algorithm for hypothesis selection. Given samples from an unknown probability distribution $P$ and a set of $m$ probability distributions $\mathcal{H}$, the goal is to output, in a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mark Bun , Gautam Kamath , Thomas Steinke , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We present a fairly general framework for reducing $(\varepsilon, \delta)$ differentially private (DP) statistical estimation to its non-private counterpart. As the main application of this framework, we give a polynomial time and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-23 Hassan Ashtiani , Christopher Liaw

In this work we present novel differentially private identity (goodness-of-fit) testers for natural and widely studied classes of multivariate product distributions: Gaussians in $\mathbb{R}^d$ with known covariance and product…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Clément L. Canonne , Gautam Kamath , Audra McMillan , Jonathan Ullman , Lydia Zakynthinou

In this paper, we find a sample complexity bound for learning a simplex from noisy samples. Assume a dataset of size $n$ is given which includes i.i.d. samples drawn from a uniform distribution over an unknown simplex in $\mathbb{R}^K$,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-02 Amir Hossein Saberi , Amir Najafi , Seyed Abolfazl Motahari , Babak H. Khalaj

We study the sample complexity of learning threshold functions under the constraint of differential privacy. It is assumed that each labeled example in the training data is the information of one individual and we would like to come up with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Haim Kaplan , Katrina Ligett , Yishay Mansour , Moni Naor , Uri Stemmer

We study the problem of privately estimating the parameters of $d$-dimensional Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) with $k$ components. For this, we develop a technique to reduce the problem to its non-private counterpart. This allows us to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-09 Jamil Arbas , Hassan Ashtiani , Christopher Liaw

We provide optimal lower bounds for two well-known parameter estimation (also known as statistical estimation) tasks in high dimensions with approximate differential privacy. First, we prove that for any $\alpha \le O(1)$, estimating the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Shyam Narayanan
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