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In the task of differentially private (DP) continual counting, we receive a stream of increments and our goal is to output an approximate running total of these increments, without revealing too much about any specific increment. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , H. Brendan McMahan , Krishna Pillutla , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

We present a framework for deterministically rounding a dynamic fractional matching. Applying our framework in a black-box manner on top of existing fractional matching algorithms, we derive the following new results: (1) The first…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Sayan Bhattacharya , Peter Kiss

In this paper, we are concerned with differentially private {stochastic gradient descent (SGD)} algorithms in the setting of stochastic convex optimization (SCO). Most of the existing work requires the loss to be Lipschitz continuous and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-03-23 Puyu Wang , Yunwen Lei , Yiming Ying , Hai Zhang

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 study differentially private algorithms for graph cut sparsification, a fundamental problem in algorithms, privacy, and machine learning. While significant progress has been made, the best-known private and efficient cut sparsifiers on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Anders Aamand , Justin Y. Chen , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Slobodan Mitrović , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Sandeep Silwal , Yinzhan Xu

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex objective which is the sum of a smooth part, with Lipschitz continuous gradient, and a nonsmooth part. Inspired by various applications, we focus on the case when the nonsmooth part is a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-28 Ting Kei Pong

We study the matrix completion problem when the observation pattern is deterministic and possibly non-uniform. We propose a simple and efficient debiased projection scheme for recovery from noisy observations and analyze the error under a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Simon Foucart , Deanna Needell , Reese Pathak , Yaniv Plan , Mary Wootters

Polynomial reproduction plays a relevant role in deriving error estimates for various approximation schemes. Local reproduction in a quasi-uniform setting is a significant factor in the estimation of error and the assessment of stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Stefano De Marchi , Giacomo Cappellazzo

Finite unit norm tight frames provide Parseval-like decompositions of vectors in terms of redundant components of equal weight. They are known to be exceptionally robust against additive noise and erasures, and as such, have great potential…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2010-09-29 Peter G. Casazza , Matthew Fickus , Dustin G. Mixon

We prove lower bounds for higher-order methods in smooth non-convex finite-sum optimization. Our contribution is threefold: We first show that a deterministic algorithm cannot profit from the finite-sum structure of the objective, and that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Nicolas Emmenegger , Rasmus Kyng , Ahad N. Zehmakan

This paper considers the distributed smooth optimization problem in which the objective is to minimize a global cost function formed by a sum of local smooth cost functions, by using local information exchange. The standard assumption for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Xinlei Yi , Shengjun Zhang , Tao Yang , Karl H. Johansson , Tianyou Chai

Uniform stability is a notion of algorithmic stability that bounds the worst case change in the model output by the algorithm when a single data point in the dataset is replaced. An influential work of Hardt et al. (2016) provides strong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Raef Bassily , Vitaly Feldman , Cristóbal Guzmán , Kunal Talwar

In this paper, we develop a new deflation technique for refining or verifying the isolated singular zeros of polynomial systems. Starting from a polynomial system with an isolated singular zero, by computing the derivatives of the input…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Jin-San Cheng , Xiaojie Dou , Junyi Wen

$D$-optimal designs originate in statistics literature as an approach for optimal experimental designs. In numerical analysis points and weights resulting from maximal determinants turned out to be useful for quadrature and interpolation.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-04 Felix Bartel , Lutz Kämmerer , Kateryna Pozharska , Martin Schäfer , Tino Ullrich

This paper introduces the $(\alpha, \Gamma)$-descent, an iterative algorithm which operates on measures and performs $\alpha$-divergence minimisation in a Bayesian framework. This gradient-based procedure extends the commonly-used…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-10-25 Kamélia Daudel , Randal Douc , François Portier

We establish rigorous \emph{a posteriori} error bounds for a space-time finite element method of arbitrary order discretising linear wave problems in second order formulation. The method combines standard finite elements in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Lorenzo Mascotto , Zuodong Wang

The graph continual release model of differential privacy seeks to produce differentially private solutions to graph problems under a stream of edge updates where new private solutions are released after each update. Thus far, previously…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Alessandro Epasto , Quanquan C. Liu , Tamalika Mukherjee , Felix Zhou

In this paper, we study the decentralized optimization problem of minimizing a finite sum of continuously differentiable and possibly nonconvex functions over a fixed-connected undirected network. We propose a unified decentralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Hao Wu , Liping Wang

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

We study the decentralized online regularized linear regression algorithm over random time-varying graphs. At each time step, every node runs an online estimation algorithm consisting of an innovation term processing its own new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xiwei Zhang , Tao Li , Xiaozheng Fu