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We introduce a refined differentially private (DP) data structure for kernel density estimation (KDE), offering not only improved privacy-utility tradeoff but also better efficiency over prior results. Specifically, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Erzhi Liu , Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu , Alex Reneau , Zhao Song , Han Liu

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms face the challenge of providing accurate results while protecting their inputs: the privacy-utility trade-off. A simple but powerful technique for DP adds noise to sensitivity-bounded query outputs to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 David M. Sommer , Lukas Abfalterer , Sheila Zingg , Esfandiar Mohammadi

In differential privacy (DP), we want to query a database about n users, in a way that "leaks at most eps about any individual user," even conditioned on any outcome of the query. Meanwhile, in gentle measurement, we want to measure n…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Scott Aaronson , Guy N. Rothblum

We study the differential privacy (DP) of the quantum recommendation algorithm of Kerenidis--Prakash and its quantum-inspired classical counterpart. Under standard low-rank and incoherence assumptions on the preference matrix, we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Chenjian Li , Mingsheng Ying , Ji Guan

Fingerprinting codes are a crucial tool for proving lower bounds in differential privacy. They have been used to prove tight lower bounds for several fundamental questions, especially in the ``low accuracy'' regime. Unlike…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Xin Lyu , Kunal Talwar

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

This paper presents tight upper and lower bounds for minimum number of samples (copies of a quantum state) required to attain a prescribed accuracy (measured by error variance) for scalar parameters estimation using unbiased estimators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Farhad Farokhi

Differential privacy promises to enable general data analytics while protecting individual privacy, but existing differential privacy mechanisms do not support the wide variety of features and databases used in real-world SQL-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Noah Johnson , Joseph P. Near , Dawn Song

We consider the problem of deciding whether an $n$-qubit unitary (or $n$-bit Boolean function) is $\varepsilon_1$-close to some $k$-junta or $\varepsilon_2$-far from every $k$-junta, where $k$-junta unitaries act non-trivially on at most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Zongbo Bao , Yuxuan Liu , Penghui Yao , Zekun Ye , Jialin Zhang

We consider differentially private range queries on a graph where query ranges are defined as the set of edges on a shortest path of the graph. Edges in the graph carry sensitive attributes and the goal is to report the sum of these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Jalaj Upadhyay , Chen Wang

Recent work in differential privacy has explored the prospect of combining local randomization with a secure intermediary. Specifically, there are a variety of protocols in the secure shuffle model (where an intermediary randomly permutes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Albert Cheu , Chao Yan

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

In this paper, we address the challenge of differential privacy in the context of graph cuts, specifically focusing on the multiway cut and the minimum $k$-cut. We introduce edge-differentially private algorithms that achieve nearly optimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Rishi Chandra , Michael Dinitz , Chenglin Fan , Zongrui Zou

We study approximation algorithms for Maximum Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Max-CSPs) under differential privacy (DP) where the constraints are considered sensitive data. Information-theoretically, we aim to classify the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Prathamesh Dharangutte , Jingcheng Liu , Pasin Manurangsi , Akbar Rafiey , Phanu Vajanopath , Zongrui Zou

We explore potential quantum speedups for the fundamental problem of testing the properties of closeness and $k$-wise uniformity of probability distributions. Closeness testing is the problem of distinguishing whether two $n$-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Jingquan Luo , Qisheng Wang , Lvzhou Li

We study the application of differential privacy in hyper-parameter tuning, a crucial process in machine learning involving selecting the best hyper-parameter from several candidates. Unlike many private learning algorithms, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Chenglong Wang , Di Wang

Given a data set of size $n$ in $d'$-dimensional Euclidean space, the $k$-means problem asks for a set of $k$ points (called centers) so that the sum of the $\ell_2^2$-distances between points of a given data set of size $n$ and the set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Anamay Chaturvedi , Matthew Jones , Huy L. Nguyen

We apply the discrepancy method and a chaining approach to give improved bounds on the coreset complexity of a wide class of kernel functions. Our results give randomized polynomial time algorithms to produce coresets of size…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Rainie Bozzai , Thomas Rothvoss

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 problem of learning exponential distributions under differential privacy. Given $n$ i.i.d.\ samples from $\mathrm{Exp}(\lambda)$, the goal is to privately estimate $\lambda$ so that the learned distribution is close in total…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Bar Mahpud , Or Sheffet