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We study the task of $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially private online convex optimization (OCO). In the online setting, the release of each distinct decision or iterate carries with it the potential for privacy loss. This problem has a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Naman Agarwal , Satyen Kale , Karan Singh , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

We present three new algorithms for constructing differentially private synthetic data---a sanitized version of a sensitive dataset that approximately preserves the answers to a large collection of statistical queries. All three algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Giuseppe Vietri , Grace Tian , Mark Bun , Thomas Steinke , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Cross-attention has emerged as a cornerstone module in modern artificial intelligence, underpinning critical applications such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), system prompting, and guided stable diffusion. However, this is a rising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yekun Ke , Yingyu Liang , Zhenmei Shi , Zhao Song , Jiahao Zhang

We present differentially private efficient algorithms for learning union of polygons in the plane (which are not necessarily convex). Our algorithms achieve $(\alpha,\beta)$-PAC learning and $(\epsilon,\delta)$-differential privacy using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Haim Kaplan , Yishay Mansour , Yossi Matias , Uri Stemmer

We study the problem of solving linear programs of the form $Ax\le b$, $x\ge0$ with differential privacy. For homogeneous LPs $Ax\ge0$, we give an efficient $(\epsilon,\delta)$-differentially private algorithm which with probability at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Alina Ene , Huy Le Nguyen , Ta Duy Nguyen , Adrian Vladu

This study examines a resource-sharing problem involving multiple parties that agree to use a set of capacities together. We start with modeling the whole problem as a mathematical program, where all parties are required to exchange…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-08 Utku Karaca , Nursen Aydin , Sinan Yildirim , S. Ilker Birbil

We propose a novel mechanism for answering sets of count- ing queries under differential privacy. Given a workload of counting queries, the mechanism automatically selects a different set of "strategy" queries to answer privately, using…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

Discovering frequent graph patterns in a graph database offers valuable information in a variety of applications. However, if the graph dataset contains sensitive data of individuals such as mobile phone-call graphs and web-click graphs,…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Entong Shen , Ting Yu

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

Most differential privacy mechanisms are applied (i.e., composed) numerous times on sensitive data. We study the design of optimal differential privacy mechanisms in the limit of a large number of compositions. As a consequence of the law…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Wael Alghamdi , Shahab Asoodeh , Flavio P. Calmon , Oliver Kosut , Lalitha Sankar , Fei Wei

We give new mechanisms for answering exponentially many queries from multiple analysts on a private database, while protecting differential privacy both for the individuals in the database and for the analysts. That is, our mechanism's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Justin Hsu , Aaron Roth , Jonathan Ullman

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

We study privately releasing column sums of a $d$-dimensional table with entries from a universe $\chi$ undergoing $T$ row updates, called histogram under continual release. Our mechanisms give better additive $\ell_\infty$-error than…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Monika Henzinger , A. R. Sricharan , Teresa Anna Steiner

We provide the first provably joint differentially private algorithm with formal utility guarantees for the problem of user-level privacy-preserving collaborative filtering. Our algorithm is based on the Frank-Wolfe method, and it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Prateek Jain , Om Thakkar , Abhradeep Thakurta

With changes in privacy laws, there is often a hard requirement for client data to remain on the device rather than being sent to the server. Therefore, most processing happens on the device, and only an altered element is sent to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ajinkya K Mulay

Privacy preservation has become a critical concern in high-dimensional data analysis due to the growing prevalence of data-driven applications. Since its proposal, sliced inverse regression has emerged as a widely utilized statistical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-08 Xintao Xia , Linjun Zhang , Zhanrui Cai

Given a dataset of $n$ user-contributed strings, each of length at most $\ell$, a key problem is how to identify all frequent substrings while preserving each user's privacy. Recent work by Bernardini et al. (PODS'25) introduced a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Peaker Guo , Rayne Holland , Hao Wu

We study the problem of differentially private optimization with linear constraints when the right-hand-side of the constraints depends on private data. This type of problem appears in many applications, especially resource allocation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Andrés Muñoz Medina , Umar Syed , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Ellen Vitercik

We lay theoretical foundations for new database release mechanisms that allow third-parties to construct consistent estimators of population statistics, while ensuring that the privacy of each individual contributing to the database is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-01 Matej Balog , Ilya Tolstikhin , Bernhard Schölkopf

We introduce a differentially private (DP) algorithm called reveal-or-obscure (ROO) to generate a single representative sample from a dataset of $n$ observations drawn i.i.d. from an unknown discrete distribution $P$. Unlike methods that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Naima Tasnim , Atefeh Gilani , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut