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Differential privacy is a mathematical notion of data privacy that has fast become the de facto standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. Recently a lot of work has focused on differential privacy in the quantum setting. Continuing on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Arghya Mukherjee , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Gavin K. Brennen

We study the problem of performing counting queries at different levels in hierarchical structures while preserving individuals' privacy. Motivated by applications, we propose a new error measure for this problem by considering a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Kewen Wu

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

We provide optimal lower bounds for two well-known parameter estimation (also known as statistical estimation) tasks in high dimensions with approximate differential privacy. First, we prove that for any $\alpha \le O(1)$, estimating the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Shyam Narayanan

Hyperparameter tuning is a common practice in the application of machine learning but is a typically ignored aspect in the literature on privacy-preserving machine learning due to its negative effect on the overall privacy parameter. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Youlong Ding , Xueyang Wu

We propose a new method for proving lower bounds on quantum query algorithms. Instead of a classical adversary that runs the algorithm with one input and then modifies the input, we use a quantum adversary that runs the algorithm with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andris Ambainis

Classical fingerprinting associates with each string a shorter string (its fingerprint), such that, with high probability, any two distinct strings can be distinguished by comparing their fingerprints alone. The fingerprints can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Harry Buhrman , Richard Cleve , John Watrous , Ronald de Wolf

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

We study the computational cost of differential privacy in terms of memory efficiency. While the trade-off between accuracy and differential privacy is well-understood, the inherent cost of privacy regarding memory use remains largely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Alessandro Epasto , Xin Lyu , Pasin Manurangsi

Differential privacy is a robust privacy standard that has been successfully applied to a range of data analysis tasks. Despite much recent work, optimal strategies for answering a collection of correlated queries are not known. We study…

Databases · Computer Science 2010-09-07 Chao Li , Michael Hay , Vibhor Rastogi , Gerome Miklau , Andrew McGregor

We study the application of differential privacy in hyper-parameter tuning, a crucial process in machine learning involving selecting the best hyper-parameter from several candidates. Unlike many private learning algorithms, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Chenglong Wang , Di Wang

Differential privacy is a rigorous privacy condition achieved by randomizing query answers. This paper develops efficient algorithms for answering multiple queries under differential privacy with low error. We pursue this goal by advancing…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-03-08 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

This paper presents tight upper and lower bounds for minimum number of samples (copies of a quantum state) required to attain a prescribed accuracy (measured by error variance) for scalar parameters estimation using unbiased estimators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Farhad Farokhi

Differential privacy provides a theoretical framework for processing a dataset about $n$ users, in a way that the output reveals a minimal information about any single user. Such notion of privacy is usually ensured by noise-adding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 Armando Angrisani , Mina Doosti , Elham Kashefi

Quantum fingerprinting is a technique that maps classical input word to a quantum state. The obtained quantum state is much shorter than the original word, and its processing uses less resources, making it useful in quantum algorithms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Mansur Ziiatdinov , Aliya Khadieva , Kamil Khadiev

Recently differential privacy has been used for a number of streaming, data structure, and dynamic graph problems as a means of hiding the internal randomness of the data structure, so that multiple possibly adaptive queries can be made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shiyuan Feng , Ying Feng , George Z. Li , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Lichen Zhang

We propose a new mechanism to accurately answer a user-provided set of linear counting queries under local differential privacy (LDP). Given a set of linear counting queries (the workload) our mechanism automatically adapts to provide…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ryan McKenna , Raj Kumar Maity , Arya Mazumdar , Gerome Miklau

We introduce a differentially private manifold denoising framework that allows users to exploit sensitive reference datasets to correct noisy, non-private query points without compromising privacy. The method follows an iterative procedure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiaqi Wu , Yiqing Sun , Zhigang Yao

We study the optimal sample complexity of a given workload of linear queries under the constraints of differential privacy. The sample complexity of a query answering mechanism under error parameter $\alpha$ is the smallest $n$ such that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Assimakis Kattis , Aleksandar Nikolov

We study differentially private (DP) algorithms for stochastic non-convex optimization. In this problem, the goal is to minimize the population loss over a $p$-dimensional space given $n$ i.i.d. samples drawn from a distribution. We improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Yingxue Zhou , Xiangyi Chen , Mingyi Hong , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Arindam Banerjee