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Recent work in differential privacy has highlighted the shuffled model as a promising avenue to compute accurate statistics while keeping raw data in users' hands. We present a protocol in this model that estimates histograms with error…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Victor Balcer , Albert Cheu

Hierarchical Clustering is a popular unsupervised machine learning method with decades of history and numerous applications. We initiate the study of differentially private approximation algorithms for hierarchical clustering under the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Jacob Imola , Alessandro Epasto , Mohammad Mahdian , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Vahab Mirrokni

Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…

When analysing Differentially Private (DP) machine learning pipelines, the potential privacy cost of data-dependent pre-processing is frequently overlooked in privacy accounting. In this work, we propose a general framework to evaluate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yaxi Hu , Amartya Sanyal , Bernhard Schölkopf

In this paper, we investigate one of the most fundamental nonconvex learning problems, ReLU regression, in the Differential Privacy (DP) model. Previous studies on private ReLU regression heavily rely on stringent assumptions, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Meng Ding , Mingxi Lei , Shaowei Wang , Tianhang Zheng , Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

Differential Privacy (DP) is a widely adopted standard for privacy-preserving data analysis, but it assumes a uniform privacy budget across all records, limiting its applicability when privacy requirements vary with data values. Per-record…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xinghe Chen , Dajun Sun , Quanqing Xu , Wei Dong

We give efficient protocols and matching accuracy lower bounds for frequency estimation in the local model for differential privacy. In this model, individual users randomize their data themselves, sending differentially private reports to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Raef Bassily , Adam Smith

Differential Privacy (DP) considers a scenario in which an adversary has almost complete information about the entries of a database. This worst-case assumption is likely to overestimate the privacy threat faced by an individual in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Dennis Breutigam , Rüdiger Reischuk

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

In this paper, we study the problem of estimating the covariance matrix under differential privacy, where the underlying covariance matrix is assumed to be sparse and of high dimensions. We propose a new method, called DP-Thresholding, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

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…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Christian Janos Lebeda , Matthew Regehr , Gautam Kamath , Thomas Steinke

In this paper, we consider the problem of differentially private (DP) algorithms for isotonic regression. For the most general problem of isotonic regression over a partially ordered set (poset) $\mathcal{X}$ and for any Lipschitz loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Differential privacy is the de-facto privacy standard in data analysis. The classic model of differential privacy considers the data to be static. The dynamic setting, called differential privacy under continual observation, captures many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Monika Henzinger , A. R. Sricharan , Teresa Anna Steiner

The shuffled (aka anonymous) model has recently generated significant interest as a candidate distributed privacy framework with trust assumptions better than the central model but with achievable errors smaller than the local model. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Badih Ghazi , Noah Golowich , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Rasmus Pagh , Ameya Velingker

We describe a new algorithm for answering a given set of range queries under $\epsilon$-differential privacy which often achieves substantially lower error than competing methods. Our algorithm satisfies differential privacy by adding noise…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Chao Li , Michael Hay , Gerome Miklau , Yue Wang

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

Designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms has received great attention in recent years, especially in the setting when the data contains sensitive information. Differential privacy (DP) is a widely used mechanism for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Chunyang Liao , Deanna Needell , Hayden Schaeffer , Alexander Xue

In this paper, we provide lower bounds for Differentially Private (DP) Online Learning algorithms. Our result shows that, for a broad class of $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-DP online algorithms, for number of rounds $T$ such that $\log T\leq O(1 /…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Daniil Dmitriev , Kristóf Szabó , Amartya Sanyal

This paper studies the exact recovery threshold subject to preserving the privacy of connections in $h$-uniform hypergraphs. Privacy is characterized by the $(\epsilon, \delta)$-hyperedge differential privacy (DP), an extension of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Javad Zahedi Moghaddam , Aria Nosratinia

Best Arm Identification (BAI) problems are progressively used for data-sensitive applications, such as designing adaptive clinical trials, tuning hyper-parameters, and conducting user studies. Motivated by the data privacy concerns invoked…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-09 Achraf Azize , Marc Jourdan , Aymen Al Marjani , Debabrota Basu