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We study the design of differentially private algorithms for adaptive analysis of dynamically growing databases, where a database accumulates new data entries while the analysis is ongoing. We provide a collection of tools for machine…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Rachel Cummings , Sara Krehbiel , Kevin A. Lai , Uthaipon Tantipongpipat

Data about individuals may contain private and sensitive information. The differential privacy (DP) was proposed to address the problem of protecting the privacy of each individual while keeping useful information about a population.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li

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

Achieving differential privacy (DP) guarantees in fully decentralized machine learning is challenging due to the absence of a central aggregator and varying trust assumptions among nodes. We present a framework for DP analysis of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Antti Koskela , Tejas Kulkarni

As a staple of data analysis and unsupervised learning, the problem of private clustering has been widely studied under various privacy models. Centralized differential privacy is the first of them, and the problem has also been studied for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Max Dupré la Tour , Monika Henzinger , David Saulpic

Differential privacy (DP) is the prevailing technique for protecting user data in machine learning models. However, deficits to this framework include a lack of clarity for selecting the privacy budget $\epsilon$ and a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Tyler LeBlond , Joseph Munoz , Fred Lu , Maya Fuchs , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Brian Testa

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) mechanisms for representing sets of size $k$ from a large universe. Our first construction creates $(\epsilon,\delta)$-DP representations with error probability of $1/(e^\epsilon + 1)$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sarvar Patel , Giuseppe Persiano , Joon Young Seo , Kevin Yeo

Mobile apps and location-based services generate large amounts of location data that can benefit research on traffic optimization, context-aware notifications and public health (e.g., spread of contagious diseases). To preserve individual…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Sepanta Zeighami , Ritesh Ahuja , Gabriel Ghinita , Cyrus Shahabi

Graph matching is a challenging problem with very important applications in a wide range of fields, from image and video analysis to biological and biomedical problems. We propose a robust graph matching algorithm inspired in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-11-26 Marcelo Fiori , Pablo Sprechmann , Joshua Vogelstein , Pablo Musé , Guillermo Sapiro

Differential privacy (DP) has seen immense applications in learning on tabular, image, and sequential data where instance-level privacy is concerned. In learning on graphs, contrastingly, works on node-level privacy are highly sparse.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Di Wang

We consider the problem of generating private synthetic versions of real-world graphs containing private information while maintaining the utility of generated graphs. Differential privacy is a gold standard for data privacy, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Xu Zheng , Nicholas McCarthy , Jer Hayes

The composition theorems of differential privacy (DP) allow data curators to combine different algorithms to obtain a new algorithm that continues to satisfy DP. However, new granularity notions (i.e., neighborhood definitions), data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Patricia Guerra-Balboa , Àlex Miranda-Pascual , Javier Parra-Arnau , Thorsten Strufe

Training with differential privacy (DP) provides a guarantee to members in a dataset that they cannot be identified by users of the released model. However, those data providers, and, in general, the public, lack methods to efficiently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Zoë Ruha Bell , Anvith Thudi , Olive Franzese-McLaughlin , Nicolas Papernot , Shafi Goldwasser

Computational differential privacy (CDP) is a natural relaxation of the standard notion of (statistical) differential privacy (SDP) proposed by Beimel, Nissim, and Omri (CRYPTO 2008) and Mironov, Pandey, Reingold, and Vadhan (CRYPTO 2009).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Badih Ghazi , Rahul Ilango , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

We revisit the problem of $n$-gram extraction in the differential privacy setting. In this problem, given a corpus of private text data, the goal is to release as many $n$-grams as possible while preserving user level privacy. Extracting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Kunho Kim , Sivakanth Gopi , Janardhan Kulkarni , Sergey Yekhanin

Differential privacy (DP) techniques can be applied to the federated learning model to statistically guarantee data privacy against inference attacks to communication among the learning agents. While ensuring strong data privacy, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Minseok Ryu , Kibaek Kim

In this work, we investigate binary classification under the constraints of both differential privacy and fairness. We first propose an algorithm based on the decoupling technique for learning a classifier with only fairness guarantee. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Hrad Ghoukasian , Shahab Asoodeh

Recent work by Dhulipala et al. \cite{DLRSSY22} initiated the study of the $k$-core decomposition problem under differential privacy via a connection between low round/depth distributed/parallel graph algorithms and private algorithms with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Laxman Dhulipala , George Z. Li , Quanquan C. Liu

Many machine learning applications are based on data collected from people, such as their tastes and behaviour as well as biological traits and genetic data. Regardless of how important the application might be, one has to make sure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-11 Joonas Jälkö , Onur Dikmen , Antti Honkela

We study approximation algorithms for Maximum Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Max-CSPs) under differential privacy (DP) where the constraints are considered sensitive data. Information-theoretically, we aim to classify the best…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Prathamesh Dharangutte , Jingcheng Liu , Pasin Manurangsi , Akbar Rafiey , Phanu Vajanopath , Zongrui Zou