arXiv:2511. 13999v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the running time, in terms of first order oracle queries, of differentially private empirical/population risk minimization of Lipschitz convex losses.
By Michael Menart, Aleksandar Nikolov
arXiv:2607. 29675v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Density modes provide a localized and interpretable summary of multimodal distributions, but their estimation under rigorous differential privacy constraints remains largely unexplored.
By Arkajyoti Bhattacharjee, Arnab Auddy
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.
By Murat Bilgehan Ertan, Marten van Dijk
arXiv:2602. 17284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider the privacy amplification properties of a sampling scheme in which a user's data isused in $k$ steps chosen randomly and uniformly from a sequence (or set) of $t$ steps.
By Vitaly Feldman, Moshe Shenfeld
arXiv:2609.37344v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Data reconstruction attacks have empirically been successful in recovering training samples from learned models, raising privacy concerns and motivat...
By Max Cairney-Leeming, Simone Bombari, Marco Mondelli
arXiv:2607. 00876v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Private continual counting is a fundamental problem in differential privacy: given a binary stream of length $n$, where each $1$ corresponds to the contribution of one individual, the goal is to release all running counts while protecting the privacy of each individual.
By Konstantina Bairaktari, Markus Engelund Dahl, Kasper Green Larsen
The paper introduces Private Best-of-N (PrivBoN), a method that adds calibrated Gumbel noise to reward scores during inference-time alignment, achieving both ε-differential privacy and KL-regularized alignment. When the privacy budget exceeds a critical threshold ε*, the noise becomes regret-optimal, matching the theoretical alignment skyline. The authors also propose Private Inference-Time Pessimism (PrivITP), which uses χ^2-regularized rejection sampling and a two-phase Gaussian mechanism to provide ex-post (ε,δ)-DP with a privacy cost independent of the number of responses, and demonstrate that both methods outperform standard Best-of-N across multiple models and datasets.
By Ishi Jain, Nandini Bhattad, Sayak Ray Chowdhury
arXiv:2607. 00876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Private continual counting is a fundamental problem in differential privacy: given a binary stream of length $n$, where each $1$ corresponds to the contribution of one individual, the goal is to release all running counts while protecting the privacy of each individual.
By Konstantina Bairaktari, Kasper Green Larsen
The paper establishes the optimal incremental first‑order oracle (IFO) complexity for nonconvex finite‑sum optimization under individual smoothness, proving a matching lower bound that closes a previously missing √{n} factor. It also refines the analysis of the PAGE algorithm under the global Polyak‑Lojasiewicz condition, providing tighter guarantees for different ranges of the condition number. The authors introduce a novel dense weak hiding construction that yields these lower bounds and demonstrates the limits of existing methods.
By Yuxing Peng, Zhiqing Tang, Weijia Jia
arXiv:2601. 14033v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine learning models are increasingly served behind APIs.
By Xiaochen Zhu, Mayuri Sridhar, Srinivas Devadas
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.
By Ahmed Mehdi Inane, Vincent Quirion, Gintare Karolina Dziugaite, Ioannis Mitliagkas
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.
By Elbert Du, Cynthia Dwork, Pranay Tankala, Linjun Zhang