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
1d ago
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
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
1d ago
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
Jun 3
Unlearning with Asymmetric Sources: Improved Unlearning-Utility Trade-off with Public Data
arXiv:2605. 11170v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Noise-based certified machine unlearning currently faces a hard ceiling: the noise magnitude required to certify unlearning typically destroys model utility, particularly for large-scale deletion requests.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1
Efficient Public Verification of Private ML via Regularization
arXiv:2512. 04008v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training with differential privacy (DP) guarantees dataset members that they cannot be identified by users of the released model.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 1
Private Rate-Constrained Optimization with Applications to Fair Learning
arXiv:2505. 22703v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many problems in trustworthy ML can be expressed as constraints on prediction rates across subpopulations, including group fairness constraints (demographic parity, equalized odds, etc.
arXiv Machine Learning
1d ago
Differentially Private Verification of Distribution Properties
arXiv:2604. 10819v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A recent line of work initiated by Chiesa and Gur and further developed by Herman and Rothblum investigates the sample and communication complexity of verifying properties of distributions with the assistance of a powerful, knowledgeable, but untrusted prover.