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The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

The exact composition of mechanisms for which two differential privacy (DP) constraints hold simultaneously is studied. The resulting privacy region admits an exact representation as a mixture over compositions of mechanisms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Cemre Cadir , Salim Najib , Yanina Y. Shkel

Distinguishing causal connections from correlations is important in many scenarios. However, the presence of unobserved variables, such as the latent confounder, can introduce bias in conditional independence testing commonly employed in…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-03 Mingzhou Liu , Xinwei Sun , Yu Qiao , Yizhou Wang

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

This paper is concerned with testing global null hypotheses about population mean vectors of high-dimensional data. Current tests require either strong mixing (independence) conditions on the individual components of the high-dimensional…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Alexander Giessing , Jianqing Fan

Differential privacy is the leading mathematical framework for privacy protection, providing a probabilistic guarantee that safeguards individuals' private information when publishing statistics from a dataset. This guarantee is achieved by…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-08-19 Yuki Ohnishi , Jordan Awan

The certification of entanglement dimensionality is of great importance in characterizing quantum systems. Recently, it is pointed out that quantum correlation of high-dimensional states can be simulated with a sequence of lower-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-22 Yu Guo , Bai-Chu Yu , Xiao-Min Hu , Bi-Heng Liu , Yu-Chun Wu , Yun-Feng Huang , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We explore the trade-off between privacy and statistical utility in private two-sample testing under local differential privacy (LDP) for both multinomial and continuous data. We begin by addressing the multinomial case, where we introduce…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Jongmin Mun , Seungwoo Kwak , Ilmun Kim

Many tools exist to detect dependence between random variables, a core question across a wide range of machine learning, statistical, and scientific endeavors. Although several statistical tests guarantee eventual detection of any…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-23 Nathaniel Xu , Feng Liu , Danica J. Sutherland

Composition is a key feature of differential privacy. Well-known advanced composition theorems allow one to query a private database quadratically more times than basic privacy composition would permit. However, these results require that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Justin Whitehouse , Aaditya Ramdas , Ryan Rogers , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Data scientists often seek to identify the most important features in high-dimensional datasets. This can be done through $L_1$-regularized regression, but this can become inefficient for very high-dimensional datasets. Additionally,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ryan Swope , Amol Khanna , Philip Doldo , Saptarshi Roy , Edward Raff

Many high-dimensional hypothesis tests aim to globally examine marginal or low-dimensional features of a high-dimensional joint distribution, such as testing of mean vectors, covariance matrices and regression coefficients. This paper…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Yinqiu He , Gongjun Xu , Chong Wu , Wei Pan

Identifying differences in networks has become a canonical problem in many biological applications. Here, we focus on testing whether two Gaussian graphical models are the same. Existing methods try to accomplish this goal by either…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-10-01 Sen Zhao , Stephen Ottinger , Suzanne Peck , Christine Mac Donald , Ali Shojaie

We investigate the problem of statistical inference for logistic regression with high-dimensional covariates in settings where dependence among individuals is induced by an underlying Markov random field. Going beyond the pairwise…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Josh Miles , Sohom Bhattacharya

We consider two hypothesis testing problems for low-rank and high-dimensional tensor signals, namely the tensor signal alignment and tensor signal matching problems. These problems are challenging due to the high dimension of tensors and…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-10 Ruihan Liu , Zhenggang Wang , Jianfeng Yao

When testing for the mean vector in a high dimensional setting, it is generally assumed that the observations are independently and identically distributed. However if the data are dependent, the existing test procedures fail to preserve…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-11-17 Deepak Nag Ayyala , Junyong Park , Anindya Roy

Survival analysis is widely used in applications involving sensitive individual-level data, yet differentially private hypothesis testing for right-censored data remains largely undeveloped. We initiate a finite-sample theory of private…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Elly K. H. Hung , Yi Yu

The validity OF a causal model can be tested ONLY IF the model imposes constraints ON the probability distribution that governs the generated data. IN the presence OF unmeasured variables, causal models may impose two types OF constraints :…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-07 Jin Tian , Judea Pearl

Measuring a strength of dependence of random variables is an important problem in statistical practice. In this paper, we propose a new function valued measure of dependence of two random variables. It allows one to study and visualize…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-05-12 Teresa Ledwina

The literature on differential privacy almost invariably assumes that the data to be analyzed are fully observed. In most practical applications this is an unrealistic assumption. A popular strategy to address this problem is imputation, in…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Soumojit Das , Jorg Drechsler , Keith Merrill , Shawn Merrill