Locally differentially private sparse vector aggregation

M Zhou, T Wang, THH Chan, G Fanti… - 2022 IEEE Symposium …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Vector mean estimation is a central primitive in federated analytics. In vector mean
estimation, each user i∈n holds a real-valued vector v_i∈-1,1^d, and a server wants to …

Better differentially private approximate histograms and heavy hitters using the Misra-Gries sketch

CJ Lebeda, J Tetek - Proceedings of the 42nd ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We consider the problem of computing differentially private approximate histograms and
heavy hitters in a stream of elements. In the non-private setting, this is often done using the …

Improved utility analysis of private countsketch

R Pagh, M Thorup - Advances in Neural Information …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Sketching is an important tool for dealing with high-dimensional vectors that are sparse (or
well-approximated by a sparse vector), especially useful in distributed, parallel, and …

Fast private kernel density estimation via locality sensitive quantization

T Wagner, Y Naamad, N Mishra - … Conference on Machine …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
We study efficient mechanisms for differentially private kernel density estimation (DP-KDE).
Prior work for the Gaussian kernel described algorithms that run in time exponential in the …

Almost linear time differentially private release of synthetic graphs

J Liu, J Upadhyay, Z Zou - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.02156, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this paper, we give an almost linear time and space algorithms to sample from an
exponential mechanism with an $\ell_1 $-score function defined over an exponentially large …

Robust gray codes approaching the optimal rate

R Con, D Fathollahi, R Gabrys… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robust Gray codes were introduced by (Lolck and Pagh, SODA 2024). Informally, a robust
Gray code is a (binary) Gray code G so that, given a noisy version of the encoding G (j) of an …

Shannon meets gray: Noise-robust, low-sensitivity codes with applications in differential privacy

DR Lolck, R Pagh - Proceedings of the 2024 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2024 - SIAM
Integer data is typically made differentially private by adding noise from a Discrete Laplace
(or Discrete Gaussian) distribution. We study the setting where differential privacy of a …

Improved construction of robust gray codes

D Fathollahi, M Wootters - 2024 IEEE International Symposium …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A robust Gray code, formally introduced by (Lolck and Pagh, SODA 2024), is a Gray code
that additionally has the property that, given a noisy version of the encoding of an integer j, it …

Efficient and Secure Quantile Aggregation of Private Data Streams

X Lan, H **, H Guo, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computing the quantile of a massive data stream has been a crucial task in networking and
data management. However, existing solutions assume a centralized model where one data …

Capacity-Achieving Gray Codes

V Guruswami, HP Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2406.17669, 2024 - arxiv.org
To ensure differential privacy, one can reveal an integer fuzzily in two ways:(a) add some
Laplace noise to the integer, or (b) encode the integer as a binary string and add iid BSC …