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We study fine-grained error bounds for differentially private algorithms for counting under continual observation. Our main insight is that the matrix mechanism when using lower-triangular matrices can be used in the continual observation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Monika Henzinger , Jalaj Upadhyay

In differential privacy, $\textit{continual observation}$ refers to problems in which we wish to continuously release a function of a dataset that is revealed one element at a time. The challenge is to maintain a good approximation while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Joel Daniel Andersson , Rasmus Pagh

We study the problem of differentially private continual counting in the unbounded setting where the input size $n$ is not known in advance. Current state-of-the-art algorithms based on optimal instantiations of the matrix mechanism cannot…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Ben Jacobsen , Kassem Fawaz

We study continual mean estimation, where data vectors arrive sequentially and the goal is to maintain accurate estimates of the running mean. We address this problem under user-level differential privacy, which protects each user's entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nikita P. Kalinin , Ali Najar , Valentin Roth , Christoph H. Lampert

Motivated by recent applications requiring differential privacy over adaptive streams, we investigate the question of optimal instantiations of the matrix mechanism in this setting. We prove fundamental theoretical results on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Sergey Denisov , Brendan McMahan , Keith Rush , Adam Smith , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta

In the task of differentially private (DP) continual counting, we receive a stream of increments and our goal is to output an approximate running total of these increments, without revealing too much about any specific increment. Despite…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , H. Brendan McMahan , Krishna Pillutla , Thomas Steinke , Abhradeep Thakurta

Privately counting distinct elements in a stream is a fundamental data analysis problem with many applications in machine learning. In the turnstile model, Jain et al. [NeurIPS2023] initiated the study of this problem parameterized by the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Monika Henzinger , A. R. Sricharan , Teresa Anna Steiner

The streaming model of computation is a popular approach for working with large-scale data. In this setting, there is a stream of items and the goal is to compute the desired quantities (usually data statistics) while making a single pass…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Andres Munoz Medina , Vahab Mirrokni , Sergei Vassilvitskii , Peilin Zhong

The first large-scale deployment of private federated learning uses differentially private counting in the continual release model as a subroutine (Google AI blog titled "Federated Learning with Formal Differential Privacy Guarantees"). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Monika Henzinger , Jalaj Upadhyay , Sarvagya Upadhyay

Differential privacy is the de-facto privacy standard in data analysis. The classic model of differential privacy considers the data to be static. The dynamic setting, called differential privacy under continual observation, captures many…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Monika Henzinger , A. R. Sricharan , Teresa Anna Steiner

Privacy is a central challenge for systems that learn from sensitive data sets, especially when a system's outputs must be continuously updated to reflect changing data. We consider the achievable error for differentially private continual…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Palak Jain , Iden Kalemaj , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Satchit Sivakumar , Adam Smith

We present a differentially private mechanism to display statistics (e.g., the moving average) of a stream of real valued observations where the bound on each observation is either too conservative or unknown in advance. This is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Victor Perrier , Hassan Jameel Asghar , Dali Kaafar

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

The amount of data coming from different sources such as IoT-sensors, social networks, cellular networks, has increased exponentially during the last few years. Probabilistic Data Structures (PDS) are efficient alternatives to deterministic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Remy Scholler , Jean-Francois Couchot , Oumaima Alaoui-Ismaili , Denis Renaud , Eric Ballot

The turnstile continual release model of differential privacy captures scenarios where a privacy-preserving real-time analysis is sought for a dataset evolving through additions and deletions. In typical applications of real-time data…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Rachel Cummings , Alessandro Epasto , Jieming Mao , Tamalika Mukherjee , Tingting Ou , Peilin Zhong

In this paper, we investigate the problem of differentially private distributed optimization. Recognizing that lower sensitivity leads to higher accuracy, we analyze the key factors influencing the sensitivity of differentially private…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Furan Xie , Bing Liu , Li Chai

Estimating the number of triangles in graph streams using a limited amount of memory has become a popular topic in the last decade. Different variations of the problem have been studied, depending on whether the graph edges are provided in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-15 Laurent Bulteau , Vincent Froese , Konstantin Kutzkov , Rasmus Pagh

We consider privacy in the context of streaming algorithms for cardinality estimation. We show that a large class of algorithms all satisfy $\epsilon$-differential privacy, so long as (a) the algorithm is combined with a simple…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Charlie Dickens , Justin Thaler , Daniel Ting

Privacy-preserving estimation of counts of items in streaming data finds applications in several real-world scenarios including word auto-correction and traffic management applications. Recent works of RAPPOR and Apple's count-mean sketch…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Dinusha Vatsalan , Raghav Bhaskar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

This paper considers the detection of change points in parallel data streams, a problem widely encountered when analyzing large-scale real-time streaming data. Each stream may have its own change point, at which its data has a…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-18 Zexian Lu , Yunxiao Chen , Xiaoou Li
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