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In the differentially private partition selection problem (a.k.a. private set union, private key discovery), users hold subsets of items from an unbounded universe. The goal is to output as many items as possible from the union of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Justin Y. Chen , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Alessandro Epasto , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

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

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

In this paper, we initiate a principled study of how the generalization properties of approximate differential privacy can be used to perform adaptive hypothesis testing, while giving statistically valid $p$-value corrections. We do this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Ryan Rogers , Aaron Roth , Adam Smith , Om Thakkar

Privacy-preserving data analysis is a rising challenge in contemporary statistics, as the privacy guarantees of statistical methods are often achieved at the expense of accuracy. In this paper, we investigate the tradeoff between…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-11 T. Tony Cai , Yichen Wang , Linjun Zhang

In the past decade analysis of big data has proven to be extremely valuable in many contexts. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a state-of-the-art approach which allows statistical computations while protecting each individual user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Björn Bebensee

Differentially private data generation techniques have become a promising solution to the data privacy challenge -- it enables sharing of data while complying with rigorous privacy guarantees, which is essential for scientific progress in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. However, alongside all its advancements, problems have also emerged, such as privacy violations, security issues and model fairness. Differential privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Wei Wang , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Since its introduction in 2006, differential privacy has emerged as a predominant statistical tool for quantifying data privacy in academic works. Yet despite the plethora of research and open-source utilities that have accompanied its…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Xiaoyuan Liu , Florian Matthes , Dawn Song

Decision trees are interpretable models that are well-suited to non-linear learning problems. Much work has been done on extending decision tree learning algorithms with differential privacy, a system that guarantees the privacy of samples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Daniël Vos , Jelle Vos , Tianyu Li , Zekeriya Erkin , Sicco Verwer

Differential privacy is a rigorous mathematical framework for evaluating and protecting data privacy. In most existing studies, there is a vulnerable assumption that records in a dataset are independent when differential privacy is applied.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Tao Zhang , Tianqing Zhu , Renping Liu , Wanlei Zhou

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

As the use of differential privacy (DP) becomes widespread, the development of effective tools for reasoning about the privacy guarantee becomes increasingly critical. In pursuit of this goal, we demonstrate novel relationships between DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zeki Kazan , Sagar Sharma , Wanrong Zhang , Bo Jiang , Qiang Yan

The exponential increase in the amount of available data makes taking advantage of them without violating users' privacy one of the fundamental problems of computer science. This question has been investigated thoroughly under the framework…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Jakub Tětek

While the introduction of differential privacy has been a major breakthrough in the study of privacy preserving data publication, some recent work has pointed out a number of cases where it is not possible to limit inference about…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-16 Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Jia Wang , Ke Wang , Raymond Chi-Wing Wong

We study the problem of multi-task learning under user-level differential privacy, in which $n$ users contribute data to $m$ tasks, each involving a subset of users. One important aspect of the problem, that can significantly impact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Walid Krichene , Prateek Jain , Shuang Song , Mukund Sundararajan , Abhradeep Thakurta , Li Zhang

Differential privacy is a de facto standard for statistical computations over databases that contain private data. The strength of differential privacy lies in a rigorous mathematical definition that guarantees individual privacy and yet…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Gilles Barthe , Rohit Chadha , Vishal Jagannath , A. Prasad Sistla , Mahesh Viswanathan

We consider the problem of learning Markov Random Fields (including the prototypical example, the Ising model) under the constraint of differential privacy. Our learning goals include both structure learning, where we try to estimate the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Huanyu Zhang , Gautam Kamath , Janardhan Kulkarni , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Differential privacy is a widely studied notion of privacy for various models of computation. Technically, it is based on measuring differences between probability distributions. We study $\epsilon,\delta$-differential privacy in the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Dmitry Chistikov , Andrzej S. Murawski , David Purser

We study the problem of differentially private query release assisted by access to public data. In this problem, the goal is to answer a large class $\mathcal{H}$ of statistical queries with error no more than $\alpha$ using a combination…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Raef Bassily , Albert Cheu , Shay Moran , Aleksandar Nikolov , Jonathan Ullman , Zhiwei Steven Wu