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We introduce a new $(\epsilon_p, \delta_p)$-differentially private algorithm for the $k$-means clustering problem. Given a dataset in Euclidean space, the $k$-means clustering problem requires one to find $k$ points in that space such that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Anamay Chaturvedi , Huy Nguyen , Eric Xu

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 study the problem of design of strategyproof in expectation (SP) mechanisms for facility location on a cycle, with the objective of minimizing the sum of costs of $n$ agents. We show that there exists an SP mechanism that attains an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Krzysztof Rogowski , Marcin Dziubiński

We improve the space bound for streaming approximation of Diameter but also of Farthest Neighbor queries, Minimum Enclosing Ball and its Coreset, in high-dimensional Euclidean spaces. In particular, our deterministic streaming algorithms…

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We provide nearly optimal algorithms for online facility location (OFL) with predictions. In OFL, $n$ demand points arrive in order and the algorithm must irrevocably assign each demand point to an open facility upon its arrival. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Erzhi Liu , You Lyu , Zhihao Gavin Tang , Yubo Zhang

Differential Privacy (DP) provides a formal privacy guarantee preventing adversaries with access to a machine learning model from extracting information about individual training points. Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Soham De , Leonard Berrada , Jamie Hayes , Samuel L. Smith , Borja Balle

Knapsack is one of the most fundamental problems in theoretical computer science. In the $(1 - \epsilon)$-approximation setting, although there is a fine-grained lower bound of $(n + 1 / \epsilon) ^ {2 - o(1)}$ based on the $(\min,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiao Mao

We consider the minimax estimation problem of a discrete distribution with support size $k$ under privacy constraints. A privatization scheme is applied to each raw sample independently, and we need to estimate the distribution of the raw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-03 Min Ye , Alexander Barg

Hierarchical clustering is a fundamental unsupervised machine learning task with the aim of organizing data into a hierarchy of clusters. Many applications of hierarchical clustering involve sensitive user information, therefore motivating…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Jalaj Upadhyay , Chen Wang , Samson Zhou

The \textit{facility location} problem consists of a set of \textit{facilities} $\mathcal{F}$, a set of \textit{clients} $\mathcal{C}$, an \textit{opening cost} $f_i$ associated with each facility $x_i$, and a \textit{connection cost}…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-14 James Hegeman , Sriram V. Pemmaraju

Estimating the geometric median of a dataset is a robust counterpart to mean estimation, and is a fundamental problem in computational geometry. Recently, [HSU24] gave an $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-differentially private algorithm obtaining an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Syamantak Kumar , Daogao Liu , Kevin Tian , Chutong Yang

We study the setup where each of $n$ users holds an element from a discrete set, and the goal is to count the number of distinct elements across all users, under the constraint of $(\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially privacy: - In the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Lijie Chen , Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

We study the problem of differentially-private (DP) stochastic (convex-concave) saddle-points in the $\ell_1$ setting. We propose $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-DP algorithms based on stochastic mirror descent that attain nearly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Tomás González , Cristóbal Guzmán , Courtney Paquette

We study person-level differentially private (DP) mean estimation in the case where each person holds multiple samples. DP here requires the usual notion of distributional stability when $\textit{all}$ of a person's datapoints can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Sushant Agarwal , Gautam Kamath , Mahbod Majid , Argyris Mouzakis , Rose Silver , Jonathan Ullman

We propose a new $(1+O(\varepsilon))$-approximation algorithm with $O(n+ 1/\varepsilon^{\frac{(d-1)}{2}})$ running time for computing the diameter of a set of $n$ points in the $d$-dimensional Euclidean space for a fixed dimension $d$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Mahdi Imanparast , Seyed Naser Hashemi

For online matching with the line metric, we present a lower bound of $\Omega(\log n)$ on the approximation ratio of any online (possibly randomized) algorithm. This beats the previous best lower bound of $\Omega(\sqrt{\log n})$ and matches…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Kangning Wang

We study Stochastic Convex Optimization in the Differential Privacy model (DP-SCO). Unlike previous studies, here we assume the population risk function satisfies the Tsybakov Noise Condition (TNC) with some parameter $\theta>1$, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Difei Xu , Meng Ding , Zihang Xiang , Jinhui Xu , Di Wang

We obtain a 1.5-approximation algorithm for the metric uncapacitated facility location problem (UFL), which improves on the previously best known 1.52-approximation algorithm by Mahdian, Ye and Zhang. Note, that the approximability lower…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-02-04 Jaroslaw Byrka , Karen Aardal

A pervasive task in the differential privacy literature is to select the $k$ items of "highest quality" out of a set of $d$ items, where the quality of each item depends on a sensitive dataset that must be protected. Variants of this task…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Thomas Steinke , Jonathan Ullman

In this paper, we give the first constant approximation algorithm for the lower bounded facility location (LBFL) problem with general lower bounds. Prior to our work, such algorithms were only known for the special case where all facilities…

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