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We study the problem of differentially private (DP) computation of coreset for the $k$-means objective. For a given input set of points, a coreset is another set of points such that the $k$-means objective for any candidate solution is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Badih Ghazi , Cristóbal Guzmán , Pritish Kamath , Alexander Knop , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

In the wake of quantum computing advancements and quantum algorithmic progress, quantum algorithms are increasingly being employed to address a myriad of combinatorial optimization problems. Among these, the Independent Domination Problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-31 Haoqian Pan , Changhong Lu

Differential privacy is a formal, mathematical definition of data privacy that has gained traction in academia, industry, and government. The task of correctly constructing differentially private algorithms is non-trivial, and mistakes have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Subhajit Roy , Justin Hsu , Aws Albarghouthi

This paper investigates differentially private analysis of distance-based outliers. The problem of outlier detection is to find a small number of instances that are apparently distant from the remaining instances. On the other hand, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-28 Rina Okada , Kazuto Fukuchi , Kazuya Kakizaki , Jun Sakuma

Differential privacy is a recent notion of privacy for statistical databases that provides rigorous, meaningful confidentiality guarantees, even in the presence of an attacker with access to arbitrary side information. We show that for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-30 Adam Smith

Differential Privacy (DP) is an important privacy-enhancing technology for private machine learning systems. It allows to measure and bound the risk associated with an individual participation in a computation. However, it was recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Cuong Tran , My H. Dinh , Ferdinando Fioretto

Finding the minimal relative entropy of two quantum states under semidefinite constraints is a pivotal problem located at the mathematical core of various applications in quantum information theory. An efficient method for providing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Gereon Koßmann , René Schwonnek

Data-driven advancements significantly contribute to societal progress, yet they also pose substantial risks to privacy. In this landscape, differential privacy (DP) has become a cornerstone in privacy preservation efforts. However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Sara Saeidian , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Perfect Domination Problem (PDP), a canonical challenge in combinatorial optimization, finds critical applications in real-world systems such as error-correcting codes, wireless communication networks, and social networks. Decades of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Haoqian Pan , Changhong Lu , Yuqing Zheng , Chunxing Yan

There are numerous methods of achieving $\epsilon$-differential privacy (DP). The question is what is the appropriate value of $\epsilon$, since there is no common agreement on a "sufficiently small" $\epsilon$, and its goodness depends on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Peeter Laud , Alisa Pankova

In this paper, we consider the problem of responding to a count query (or any other integer-valued queries) evaluated on a dataset containing sensitive attributes. To protect the privacy of individuals in the dataset, a standard practice is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Parastoo Sadeghi , Shahab Asoodeh , Flavio du Pin Calmon

We investigate the problems of identity and closeness testing over a discrete population from random samples. Our goal is to develop efficient testers while guaranteeing Differential Privacy to the individuals of the population. We describe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Ilias Diakonikolas , Ronitt Rubinfeld

Differential privacy is a widely used notion of security that enables the processing of sensitive information. In short, differentially private algorithms map "neighbouring" inputs to close output distributions. Prior work proposed several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Armando Angrisani , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi

This paper proposes a differentially private recursive least squares algorithm to estimate the parameter of autoregressive systems with exogenous inputs and multi-participants (MP-ARX systems) and protect each participant's sensitive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Jianwei Tan , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

Differential privacy (DP) is the prevailing technique for protecting user data in machine learning models. However, deficits to this framework include a lack of clarity for selecting the privacy budget $\epsilon$ and a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Tyler LeBlond , Joseph Munoz , Fred Lu , Maya Fuchs , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Brian Testa

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms protect individual-level information by introducing randomness into the statistical analysis procedure. Despite the availability of numerous DP tools, there remains a lack of general techniques for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-25 Zhanyu Wang , Guang Cheng , Jordan Awan

As data volume grows extensively, data profiling helps to extract metadata of large-scale data. However, one kind of metadata, order statistics, is difficult to be computed because they are not mergeable or incremental. Thus, the limitation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Zhiwei Chen , Aoqian Zhang

The all-pairs shortest distances (APSD) with differential privacy (DP) problem takes as input an undirected, weighted graph $G = (V,E, \mathbf{w})$ and outputs a private estimate of the shortest distances in $G$ between all pairs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jesse Campbell , Chunjiang Zhu

We study the problem of releasing the weights of all-pair shortest paths in a weighted undirected graph with differential privacy (DP). In this setting, the underlying graph is fixed and two graphs are neighbors if their edge weights differ…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Jelani Nelson

We consider differentially private approximate singular vector computation. Known worst-case lower bounds show that the error of any differentially private algorithm must scale polynomially with the dimension of the singular vector. We are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-06 Moritz Hardt , Aaron Roth