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Differential Privacy (DP) provides a rigorous framework for releasing statistics while protecting individual information present in a dataset. Although substantial progress has been made on differentially private linear regression, existing…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Getoar Sopa , Marco Avella Medina , Cynthia Rush

We study the limits and capability of public-data assisted differentially private (PA-DP) algorithms. Specifically, we focus on the problem of stochastic convex optimization (SCO) with either labeled or unlabeled public data. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Enayat Ullah , Michael Menart , Raef Bassily , Cristóbal Guzmán , Raman Arora

The problem of estimating a parameter in the drift coefficient is addressed for $N$ discretely observed independent and identically distributed stochastic differential equations (SDEs). This is done considering additional constraints,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-17 Chiara Amorino , Arnaud Gloter , Hélène Halconruy

We study sparse linear regression over a network of agents, modeled as an undirected graph and no server node. The estimation of the $s$-sparse parameter is formulated as a constrained LASSO problem wherein each agent owns a subset of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Marie Maros , Gesualdo Scutari , Ying Sun , Guang Cheng

We study the problem of fitting the high dimensional sparse linear regression model with sub-Gaussian covariates and responses, where the data are provided by strategic or self-interested agents (individuals) who prioritize their privacy of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Liyang Zhu , Amina Manseur , Meng Ding , Jinyan Liu , Jinhui Xu , Di Wang

We study discrete distribution estimation under user-level local differential privacy (LDP). In user-level $\varepsilon$-LDP, each user has $m\ge1$ samples and the privacy of all $m$ samples must be preserved simultaneously. We resolve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Jayadev Acharya , Yuhan Liu , Ziteng Sun

In the arena of privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has outstripped the objective perturbation mechanism in popularity and interest. Though unrivaled in versatility, DP-SGD…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Rachel Redberg , Antti Koskela , Yu-Xiang Wang

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

We consider the noise complexity of differentially private mechanisms in the setting where the user asks $d$ linear queries $f\colon\Rn\to\Re$ non-adaptively. Here, the database is represented by a vector in $\Rn$ and proximity between…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-09 Moritz Hardt , Kunal Talwar

In this work, we give efficient algorithms for privately estimating a Gaussian distribution in both pure and approximate differential privacy (DP) models with optimal dependence on the dimension in the sample complexity. In the pure DP…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Daniel Alabi , Pravesh K. Kothari , Pranay Tankala , Prayaag Venkat , Fred Zhang

We initiate a systematic study of worst-group risk minimization under $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differential privacy (DP). The goal is to privately find a model that approximately minimizes the maximal risk across $p$ sub-populations (groups)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Xinyu Zhou , Raef Bassily

This paper studies privacy-preserving exploration in Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) with linear representation. We first consider the setting of linear-mixture MDPs (Ayoub et al., 2020) (a.k.a.\ model-based setting) and provide an unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Paul Luyo , Evrard Garcelon , Alessandro Lazaric , Matteo Pirotta

Distributed data analysis is a large and growing field driven by a massive proliferation of user devices, and by privacy concerns surrounding the centralised storage of data. We consider two \emph{adaptive} algorithms for estimating one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Anders Aamand , Fabrizio Boninsegna , Abigail Gentle , Jacob Imola , Rasmus Pagh

This paper studies the problem of differentially private empirical risk minimization (DP-ERM) for binary linear classification. We obtain an efficient $(\varepsilon,\delta)$-DP algorithm with an empirical zero-one risk bound of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Erchi Wang , Yuqing Zhu , Yu-Xiang Wang

We revisit the well-studied problem of differentially private empirical risk minimization (ERM). We show that for unconstrained convex generalized linear models (GLMs), one can obtain an excess empirical risk of $\tilde…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Shuang Song , Thomas Steinke , Om Thakkar , Abhradeep Thakurta

We study the problem of Differentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization (DP-SCO) with heavy-tailed data. Specifically, we focus on the $\ell_1$-norm linear regression in the $\epsilon$-DP model. While most of the previous work focuses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

Sensitive statistics are often collected across sets of users, with repeated collection of reports done over time. For example, trends in users' private preferences or software usage may be monitored via such reports. We study the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Úlfar Erlingsson , Vitaly Feldman , Ilya Mironov , Ananth Raghunathan , Kunal Talwar , Abhradeep Thakurta

In this work, we study trade-offs between accuracy and privacy in the context of linear queries over histograms. This is a rich class of queries that includes contingency tables and range queries, and has been a focus of a long line of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Aleksandar Nikolov , Kunal Talwar , Li Zhang

In this paper, we introduce an adaptation of the facility location problem and analyze it within the framework of local differential privacy (LDP). Under this model, we ensure the privacy of client presence at specific locations. When n is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kevin Pfisterer , Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

We study the problem of hypothesis selection under the constraint of local differential privacy. Given a class $\mathcal{F}$ of $k$ distributions and a set of i.i.d. samples from an unknown distribution $h$, the goal of hypothesis selection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-05 Alireza F. Pour , Hassan Ashtiani , Shahab Asoodeh