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Publications (24)

cs.LG2026

ACTG-ARL: Differentially Private Conditional Text Generation with RL-Boosted Control

Yuzheng Hu, Ryan McKenna, Da Yu +4

Generating high-quality synthetic text under differential privacy (DP) is critical for training and evaluating language models without compromising user privacy. Prior work on synt…

cs.CL2024

Differentially Private Synthetic Data via Foundation Model APIs 2: Text

Chulin Xie, Zinan Lin, Arturs Backurs +9

Text data has become extremely valuable due to the emergence of machine learning algorithms that learn from it. A lot of high-quality text data generated in the real world is priva…

cs.LG2023

Stabilize Deep ResNet with A Sharp Scaling Factor

Huishuai Zhang, Da Yu, Mingyang Yi +2

We study the stability and convergence of training deep ResNets with gradient descent. Specifically, we show that the parametric branch in the residual block should be scaled down…

cs.CL2025

Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities

Gheorghe Comanici, Eric Bieber, Mike Schaekermann +3431

In this report, we introduce the Gemini 2.X model family: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash, as well as our earlier Gemini 2.0 Flash and Flash-Lite models. Gemini 2.5 Pro is our…

cs.LG2025

Scaling Laws for Differentially Private Language Models

Ryan McKenna, Yangsibo Huang, Amer Sinha +9

Scaling laws have emerged as important components of large language model (LLM) training as they can predict performance gains through scale, and provide guidance on important hype…

cs.CR2026

How to DP-fy Your Data: A Practical Guide to Generating Synthetic Data With Differential Privacy

Natalia Ponomareva, Zheng Xu, H. Brendan McMahan +12

High quality data is needed to unlock the full potential of AI for end users. However finding new sources of such data is getting harder: most publicly-available human generated da…