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Modern deep learning reconstruction algorithms generate impressively realistic scans from sparse inputs, but can often produce significant inaccuracies. This makes it difficult to provide statistically guaranteed claims about the true state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Matt Y Cheung , Tucker J Netherton , Laurence E Court , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Guha Balakrishnan

Differential Privacy (DP) has become a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. While it provides one of the most rigorous notions of privacy, there are many settings where its applicability is limited. Our main contribution is in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Aman Bansal , Rahul Chunduru , Deepesh Data , Manoj Prabhakaran

We consider the problem of sampling and approximately counting an arbitrary given motif $H$ in a graph $G$, where access to $G$ is given via queries: degree, neighbor, and pair, as well as uniform edge sample queries. Previous algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Amartya Shankha Biswas , Talya Eden , Ronitt Rubinfeld

We study the generation of dependent random numbers in a distributed fashion in order to enable privatized distributed learning by networked agents. We propose a method that we refer to as local graph-homomorphic processing; it relies on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Differential privacy with gradual expiration models the setting where data items arrive in a stream and at a given time $t$ the privacy loss guaranteed for a data item seen at time $(t-d)$ is $\epsilon g(d)$, where $g$ is a monotonically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Joel Daniel Andersson , Monika Henzinger , Rasmus Pagh , Teresa Anna Steiner , Jalaj Upadhyay

Dense subgraph discovery methods are routinely used in a variety of applications including the identification of a team of skilled individuals for collaboration from a social network. However, when the network's node set is associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Atsushi Miyauchi , Tianyi Chen , Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

The turnstile continual release model of differential privacy captures scenarios where a privacy-preserving real-time analysis is sought for a dataset evolving through additions and deletions. In typical applications of real-time data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rachel Cummings , Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Tamalika Mukherjee , Tingting Ou , Peilin Zhong

Differential privacy has emerged as a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. A popular variant is local differential privacy, where the data holder is the trusted curator. A major barrier, however, towards a wider adoption of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Joseph Geumlek , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Graph analysts cannot directly obtain the global structure in decentralized social networks, and analyzing such a network requires collecting local views of the social graph from individual users. Since the edges between users may reveal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Lele Zheng , Bowen Deng , Tao Zhang , Yulong Shen , Yang Cao

Kernelization algorithms, usually a preprocessing step before other more traditional algorithms, are very special in the sense that they return (reduced) instances, instead of final results. This characteristic excludes the freedom of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-04 Yixin Cao , Jianer Chen

This paper considers the private release of statistics of disjoint subsets of a dataset, in the setting of data heterogeneity, where users could contribute more than one sample, with different users contributing potentially different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-26 V. Arvind Rameshwar , Anshoo Tandon

Local differential privacy is a differential privacy paradigm in which individuals first apply a privacy mechanism to their data (often by adding noise) before transmitting the result to a curator. The noise for privacy results in…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-17 Yuki Ohnishi , Jordan Awan

We design new differentially private algorithms for the Euclidean k-means problem, both in the centralized model and in the local model of differential privacy. In both models, our algorithms achieve significantly improved error guarantees…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Haim Kaplan , Uri Stemmer

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

A central challenge in machine learning is to understand how noise or measurement errors affect low-rank approximations, particularly in the spectral norm. This question is especially important in differentially private low-rank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Phuc Tran , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi , Van H. Vu

In this work, we give a new technique for analyzing individualized privacy accounting via the following simple observation: if an algorithm is one-sided add-DP, then its subsampled variant satisfies two-sided DP. From this, we obtain…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Adam Sealfon

We study the problem of maintaining a differentially private decaying sum under continual observation. We give a unifying framework and an efficient algorithm for this problem for \emph{any sufficiently smooth} function. Our algorithm is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Monika Henzinger , Jalaj Upadhyay , Sarvagya Upadhyay

This paper studies the exact recovery threshold subject to preserving the privacy of connections in $h$-uniform hypergraphs. Privacy is characterized by the $(\epsilon, \delta)$-hyperedge differential privacy (DP), an extension of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Javad Zahedi Moghaddam , Aria Nosratinia

Shuffle model of differential privacy is a novel distributed privacy model based on a combination of local privacy mechanisms and a secure shuffler. It has been shown that the additional randomisation provided by the shuffler improves…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Antti Koskela , Mikko A. Heikkilä , Antti Honkela

The optimization foundations of deep linear networks have recently received significant attention. However, due to their inherent non-convexity and hierarchical structure, analyzing the loss functions of deep linear networks remains a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-24 Po Chen , Rujun Jiang , Peng Wang