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Differential privacy is the dominant standard for formal and quantifiable privacy and has been used in major deployments that impact millions of people. Many differentially private algorithms for query release and synthetic data contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Brett Mullins , Miguel Fuentes , Yingtai Xiao , Daniel Kifer , Cameron Musco , Daniel Sheldon

State-of-the-art differentially private synthetic tabular data has been defined by adaptive 'select-measure-generate' frameworks, exemplified by methods like AIM. These approaches iteratively measure low-order noisy marginals and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Samuel Maddock , Shripad Gade , Graham Cormode , Will Bullock

We propose AIM, a new algorithm for differentially private synthetic data generation. AIM is a workload-adaptive algorithm within the paradigm of algorithms that first selects a set of queries, then privately measures those queries, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Ryan McKenna , Brett Mullins , Daniel Sheldon , Gerome Miklau

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

Many differentially private algorithms for answering database queries involve a step that reconstructs a discrete data distribution from noisy measurements. This provides consistent query answers and reduces error, but often requires space…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Ryan McKenna , Siddhant Pradhan , Daniel Sheldon , Gerome Miklau

Data is continuously generated by modern data sources, and a recent challenge in machine learning has been to develop techniques that perform well in an incremental (streaming) setting. In this paper, we investigate the problem of private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-01-05 Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan , Kobbi Nissim , Hongxia Jin

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

Noisy marginals are a common form of confidentiality protecting data release and are useful for many downstream tasks such as contingency table analysis, construction of Bayesian networks, and even synthetic data generation. Privacy…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yingtai Xiao , Guanlin He , Levent Toksoz , Zeyu Ding , Danfeng Zhang , Daniel Kifer

We address the problem of efficiently and effectively answering large numbers of queries on a sensitive dataset while ensuring differential privacy (DP). We separately analyze this problem in two distinct settings, grounding our work in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Brendan Avent , Aleksandra Korolova

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

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

Simultaneously optimizing multiple, frequently conflicting, molecular properties is a key bottleneck in the development of novel therapeutics. Although a promising approach, the efficacy of multi-task learning is often compromised by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Mason Minot , Gisbert Schneider

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 2012-08-02 Ganzhao Yuan , Zhenjie Zhang , Marianne Winslett , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Zhifeng Hao

We propose a novel mechanism for answering sets of count- ing queries under differential privacy. Given a workload of counting queries, the mechanism automatically selects a different set of "strategy" queries to answer privately, using…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

Information retrieval (IR) in dynamic data streams is a crucial task, as shifts in data distribution degrade the performance of AI-powered IR systems. To mitigate this issue, memory-based continual learning has been widely adopted for IR.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 HuiJeong Son , Hyeongu Kang , Sunho Kim , Subeen Ho , SeongKu Kang , Dongha Lee , Susik Yoon

While the flexible capabilities of large language models (LLMs) allow them to answer a range of queries based on existing learned knowledge, information retrieval to augment generation is an important tool to allow LLMs to answer questions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Guy Zyskind , Tobin South , Alex Pentland

Differentially private diffusion models (DPDMs) harness the remarkable generative capabilities of diffusion models while enforcing differential privacy (DP) for sensitive data. However, existing DPDM training approaches often suffer from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Tanqiu Jiang , Changjiang Li , Fenglong Ma , Ting Wang

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have achieved rapid adoption and demonstrated remarkable capabilities across a wide range of applications. To improve reasoning and task execution, modern LLM agents would incorporate memory modules or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Xingyu Lyu , Jianfeng He , Ning Wang , Yidan Hu , Tao Li , Danjue Chen , Shixiong Li , Yimin Chen

With the recent remarkable advancement of large language models (LLMs), there has been a growing interest in utilizing them in the domains with highly sensitive data that lies outside their training data. For this purpose,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Tatsuki Koga , Ruihan Wu , Zhiyuan Zhang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines are commonly used in tasks such as question-answering (QA), relying on retrieving relevant documents from a vector store computed using a pretrained embedding model. However, if the retrieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ambuje Gupta , Mrinal Rawat , Andreas Stolcke , Roberto Pieraccini
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