arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30
Differentially Private Permutation Tests
arXiv:2310. 19043v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about the privacy of sensitive data.
Near-Optimal Private Tests for Simple and MLR Hypotheses
arXiv:2601. 21959v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a near-optimal testing procedure under the framework of Gaussian differential privacy for simple as well as one- and two-sided tests under monotone likelihood ratio conditions.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4
Differentially Private Joint Independence Test
arXiv:2503. 18721v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Identification of joint dependence among several random vectors plays an important role in many statistical applications, where the data may contain sensitive or confidential information.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5
Minimax optimal differentially private synthetic data for smooth queries
arXiv:2602. 01607v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Differentially private synthetic data enables the sharing and analysis of sensitive datasets while providing rigorous privacy guarantees for individual contributors.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18
Score Attack: A Lower Bound Technique for Optimal Differentially Private Learning
arXiv:2303. 07152v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Achieving optimal statistical performance while ensuring the privacy of personal data is a challenging yet crucial objective in modern data analysis.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15
Let's Ask Gauss: Improved One-Run Privacy Auditing
arXiv:2606. 12733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Privacy auditing provides an important safeguard by estimating the actual information leaked by a model, thus ensuring that theoretical privacy guarantees hold in practice.
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago
Certification-Based Differentially Private Learning
arXiv:2609.39629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Differential privacy (DP) in machine learning is typically achieved by adding noise to model parameters (private learning) or to model outputs (private...
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1
Revisiting the Provable-Auditable Privacy Gap of DP-SGD
arXiv:2608.28934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Differential privacy (DP) has traditionally been used to provide theoretical upper bounds on an algorithm's stability to changing its training data. In...
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11
Fundamental Limitations of Favorable Privacy-Utility Guarantees for DP-SGD
arXiv:2601. 10237v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is the dominant paradigm for private training, but its fundamental limitations under worst-case adversarial privacy definitions remain poorly understood.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22
Improved Private Sparse Covariance Estimation with Multiscale Threshold Tests
arXiv:2609. 22783v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study differentially private covariance estimation in operator norm for mean-zero sub-Gaussian distributions with unknown covariance support and at most $k$ nonzero entries per row.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18
Computationally tractable robust differentially private mean estimation
arXiv:2606. 12654v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a new, differentially private mean estimator called the balloon mean.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2
Private and Stable Test-Time Adaptation with Differential Privacy
arXiv:2606. 01908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time adaptation (TTA) can reduce error on new and different data by updating the model on these inputs during inference.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10
Differentially Private Model-X Knockoffs via Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform
arXiv:2508.04800v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce a novel privatization framework for high-dimensional controlled variable selection. Our framework enables rigorous False Discove...