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Tukey's depth (or halfspace depth) is a widely used measure of centrality for multivariate data. However, exact computation of Tukey's depth is known to be a hard problem in high dimensions. As a remedy, randomized approximations of Tukey's…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-08 Simon Briend , Gábor Lugosi , Roberto Imbuzeiro Oliveira

Normalizing flow models have risen as a popular solution to the problem of density estimation, enabling high-quality synthetic data generation as well as exact probability density evaluation. However, in contexts where individuals are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Chris Waites , Rachel Cummings

The comparison of multivariate population means is a central task of statistical inference. While statistical theory provides a variety of analysis tools, they usually do not protect individuals' privacy. This knowledge can create…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-10-18 Martin Dunsche , Tim Kutta , Holger Dette

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

Many analysis and machine learning tasks require the availability of marginal statistics on multidimensional datasets while providing strong privacy guarantees for the data subjects. Applications for these statistics range from finding…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Tejas Kulkarni , Graham Cormode , Divesh Srivastava

Differential privacy is a widely adopted framework designed to safeguard the sensitive information of data providers within a data set. It is based on the application of controlled noise at the interface between the server that stores and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Rūta Binkytė , Carlos Pinzón , Szilvia Lestyán , Kangsoo Jung , Héber H. Arcolezi , Catuscia Palamidessi

In this brief, we present an enhanced privacy-preserving distributed estimation algorithm, referred to as the ``Double-Private Algorithm," which combines the principles of both differential privacy (DP) and cryptography. The proposed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Mehdi Korki , Fatemehsadat Hosseiniamin , Hadi Zayyani , Mehdi Bekrani

We consider the problem of collaborative personalized mean estimation under a privacy constraint in an environment of several agents continuously receiving data according to arbitrary unknown agent-specific distributions. In particular, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Yauhen Yakimenka , Chung-Wei Weng , Hsuan-Yin Lin , Eirik Rosnes , Jörg Kliewer

We develop a near-optimal testing procedure under the framework of Gaussian differential privacy for simple as well as one- and two-sided tests under monotone likelihood ratio conditions. Our mechanism is based on a private mean estimator…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-30 Yu-Wei Chen , Raghu Pasupathy , Jordan Awan

We study how to communicate findings of Bayesian inference to third parties, while preserving the strong guarantee of differential privacy. Our main contributions are four different algorithms for private Bayesian inference on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Zuhe Zhang , Benjamin Rubinstein , Christos Dimitrakakis

This paper presents a differentially private approach to Kaplan-Meier estimation that achieves accurate survival probability estimates while safeguarding individual privacy. The Kaplan-Meier estimator is widely used in survival analysis to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Narasimha Raghavan Veeraragavan , Sai Praneeth Karimireddy , Jan Franz Nygård

We consider training models on private data that are distributed across user devices. To ensure privacy, we add on-device noise and use secure aggregation so that only the noisy sum is revealed to the server. We present a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Peter Kairouz , Ziyu Liu , Thomas Steinke

We present novel, computationally efficient, and differentially private algorithms for two fundamental high-dimensional learning problems: learning a multivariate Gaussian and learning a product distribution over the Boolean hypercube in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Gautam Kamath , Jerry Li , Vikrant Singhal , Jonathan Ullman

Local differential privacy has become the gold-standard of privacy literature for gathering or releasing sensitive individual data points in a privacy-preserving manner. However, locally differential data can twist the probability density…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-11-10 Farhad Farokhi

We consider the privacy problem of statistical estimation from distributed data, where users communicate to a central processor over a Gaussian multiple-access channel(MAC). To avoid the inevitable sacrifice of data utility for privacy in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Wenhao Zhan

Differential Privacy has become a widely popular method for data protection in machine learning, especially since it allows formulating strict mathematical privacy guarantees. This survey provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lea Demelius , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

Differential privacy provides strong privacy guarantees for machine learning applications. Much recent work has been focused on developing differentially private models, however there has been a gap in other stages of the machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Ashly Lau , Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach

Tukey's depth offers a powerful tool for nonparametric inference and estimation, but also encounters serious computational and methodological difficulties in modern statistical data analysis. This paper studies how to generalize and compute…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-04 Yiyuan She , Shao Tang , Jingze Liu

Differential privacy is a rigorous definition for privacy that guarantees that any analysis performed on a sensitive dataset leaks no information about the individuals whose data are contained therein. In this work, we develop new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Vassilis Digalakis , George N. Karystinos , Minos N. Garofalakis

The injection of heavy-tailed noise into the iterates of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) has garnered growing interest in recent years due to its theoretical and empirical benefits for optimization and generalization. However, its…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Umut Şimşekli , Mert Gürbüzbalaban , Sinan Yıldırım , Lingjiong Zhu