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Differentially private learning on real-world data poses challenges for standard machine learning practice: privacy guarantees are difficult to interpret, hyperparameter tuning on private data reduces the privacy budget, and ad-hoc privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-10 Koen Lennart van der Veen , Ruben Seggers , Peter Bloem , Giorgio Patrini

We define a new interactive differentially private mechanism -- the median mechanism -- for answering arbitrary predicate queries that arrive online. Relative to fixed accuracy and privacy constraints, this mechanism can answer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-20 Aaron Roth , Tim Roughgarden

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

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

A pervasive task in the differential privacy literature is to select the $k$ items of "highest quality" out of a set of $d$ items, where the quality of each item depends on a sensitive dataset that must be protected. Variants of this task…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

Iterative algorithms, like gradient descent, are common tools for solving a variety of problems, such as model fitting. For this reason, there is interest in creating differentially private versions of them. However, their conversion to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Jaewoo Lee , Daniel Kifer

Large language models (LLMs) and AI agents are increasingly integrated into enterprise systems to access internal databases and generate context-aware responses. While such integration improves productivity and decision support, the model…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ya-Ting Yang , Quanyan Zhu

We present new auditors to assess Differential Privacy (DP) of an algorithm based on output samples. Such empirical auditors are common to check for algorithmic correctness and implementation bugs. Most existing auditors are batch-based or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tim Kutta , Martin Dunsche , Yu Wei , Vassilis Zikas

Differentially private federated learning is crucial for maintaining privacy in distributed environments. This paper investigates the challenges of high-dimensional estimation and inference under the constraints of differential privacy.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-04-26 Zhe Zhang , Ryumei Nakada , Linjun Zhang

In this work we describe the High-Dimensional Matrix Mechanism (HDMM), a differentially private algorithm for answering a workload of predicate counting queries. HDMM represents query workloads using a compact implicit matrix representation…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Ryan McKenna , Gerome Miklau , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

We study differentially private algorithms for analyzing graphs in the challenging setting of continual release with fully dynamic updates, where edges are inserted and deleted over time, and the algorithm is required to update the solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Sofya Raskhodnikova , Teresa Anna Steiner

A new line of work, started with Dwork et al., studies the task of answering statistical queries using a sample and relates the problem to the concept of differential privacy. By the Hoeffding bound, a sample of size $O(\log k/\alpha^2)$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-11 Kobbi Nissim , Uri Stemmer

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

The deterministic membership problem for timed automata asks whether the timed language given by a nondeterministic timed automaton can be recognised by a deterministic timed automaton. An analogous problem can be stated in the setting of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Lorenzo Clemente , Sławomir Lasota , Radosław Piórkowski

Differential privacy (DP) is a compelling privacy definition that explains the privacy-utility tradeoff via formal, provable guarantees. Inspired by recent progress toward general-purpose data release algorithms, we propose a private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

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

Economics and social science research often require analyzing datasets of sensitive personal information at fine granularity, with models fit to small subsets of the data. Unfortunately, such fine-grained analysis can easily reveal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Daniel Alabi , Audra McMillan , Jayshree Sarathy , Adam Smith , Salil Vadhan

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

Learning problems form an important category of computational tasks that generalizes many of the computations researchers apply to large real-life data sets. We ask: what concept classes can be learned privately, namely, by an algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Homin K. Lee , Kobbi Nissim , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith

We present a practical, differentially private algorithm for answering a large number of queries on high dimensional datasets. Like all algorithms for this task, ours necessarily has worst-case complexity exponential in the dimension of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Marco Gaboardi , Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias , Justin Hsu , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu