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Differential privacy has become a popular privacy-preserving method in data analysis, query processing, and machine learning, which adds noise to the query result to avoid leaking privacy. Sensitivity, or the maximum impact of deleting or…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Meifan Zhang , Xin Liu , Lihua Yin

There has been increasing demand for establishing privacy-preserving methodologies for modern statistics and machine learning. Differential privacy, a mathematical notion from computer science, is a rising tool offering robust privacy…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-09 Shurong Lin , Elliot Paquette , Eric D. Kolaczyk

We propose, implement, and evaluate a new algorithm for releasing answers to very large numbers of statistical queries like $k$-way marginals, subject to differential privacy. Our algorithm makes adaptive use of a continuous relaxation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Sergul Aydore , William Brown , Michael Kearns , Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Luca Melis , Aaron Roth , Ankit Siva

A powerful feature of linear sketches is that from sketches of two data vectors, one can compute the sketch of the difference between the vectors. This allows us to answer fine-grained questions about the difference between two data sets.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Rasmus Pagh , Nina Mesing Stausholm

While differentially private synthetic data generation has been explored extensively in the literature, how to update this data in the future if the underlying private data changes is much less understood. We propose an algorithmic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Girish Kumar , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

We introduce a new sub-linear space sketch---the Weight-Median Sketch---for learning compressed linear classifiers over data streams while supporting the efficient recovery of large-magnitude weights in the model. This enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Kai Sheng Tai , Vatsal Sharan , Peter Bailis , Gregory Valiant

Differential privacy (DP) is a compelling privacy definition that explains the privacy-utility tradeoff via formal, provable guarantees. Inspired by recent progress toward general-purpose data release algorithms, we propose a private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

We introduce a novel technique for ``lifting'' dimension lower bounds for linear sketches in the real-valued setting to dimension lower bounds for linear sketches with polynomially-bounded integer entries when the input is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Elena Gribelyuk , Honghao Lin , David P. Woodruff , Huacheng Yu , Samson Zhou

Sketching is inherently a sequential process, in which strokes are drawn in a meaningful order to explore and refine ideas. However, most generative models treat sketches as static images, overlooking the temporal structure that underlies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Hui Ren , Yuval Alaluf , Omer Bar Tal , Alexander Schwing , Antonio Torralba , Yael Vinker

Elastic-Sketch is a hash-based data structure for counting item's appearances in a data stream, and it has been empirically shown to achieve a better memory-accuracy trade-off compared to classical methods. This algorithm combines a heavy…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Younes Ben Mazziane , Vinay Kumar B. R. , Othmane Marfoq

We consider the problem of computing differentially private approximate histograms and heavy hitters in a stream of elements. In the non-private setting, this is often done using the sketch of Misra and Gries [Science of Computer…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Christian Janos Lebeda , Jakub Tětek

Differential privacy is the standard privacy definition for performing analyses over sensitive data. Yet, its privacy budget bounds the number of tasks an analyst can perform with reasonable accuracy, which makes it challenging to deploy in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Florimond Houssiau , Vincent Schellekens , Antoine Chatalic , Shreyas Kumar Annamraju , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Modern data stream applications demand memory-efficient solutions for accurately tracking frequent items, such as heavy hitters and heavy changers, under strict resource constraints. Traditional sketches face inherent accuracy-memory…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Zicang Xu , Yuxuan Tian , Yuhan Wu , Tong Yang

Based on recent advanced diffusion models, Text-to-image (T2I) generation models have demonstrated their capabilities to generate diverse and high-quality images. However, leveraging their potential for real-world content creation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Sandra Zhang Ding , Jiafeng Mao , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Estimating the number of distinct elements in a data stream is well understood when repeated elements are identical. In modern settings, however, observations are high-dimensional and noisy, so repeated instances of the same object are only…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-18 Nikos Tsikouras , Constantine Caramanis , Christos Tzamos

Differential privacy is a promising privacy-preserving paradigm for statistical query processing over sensitive data. It works by injecting random noise into each query result, such that it is provably hard for the adversary to infer the…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Ganzhao Yuan , Zhenjie Zhang , Marianne Winslett , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Zhifeng Hao

In privacy under continual observation we study how to release differentially private estimates based on a dataset that evolves over time. The problem of releasing private prefix sums of $x_1,x_2,x_3,\dots \in\{0,1\}$ (where the value of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Joel Daniel Andersson , Rasmus Pagh

Cyber security is one of the most significant technical challenges in current times. Detecting adversarial activities, prevention of theft of intellectual properties and customer data is a high priority for corporations and government…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-04 Sutanay Choudhury , Lawrence Holder , George Chin , Khushbu Agarwal , John Feo

Many dynamic applications are built upon large network infrastructures, such as social networks, communication networks, biological networks and the Web. Such applications create data that can be naturally modeled as graph streams, in which…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Peixiang Zhao , Charu C. Aggarwal , Min Wang

Network monitoring is vital in modern clouds and data center networks for traffic engineering, network diagnosis, network intrusion detection, which need diverse traffic statistics ranging from flow size distributions to heavy hitters. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yongquan Fu , Dongsheng Li , Siqi Shen , Yiming Zhang , Kai Chen