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20202025
most citedThink Locally, Act Globally: Federated Learning with Local and Global Representations

138 citations · 201 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2025

Enhancing One-run Privacy Auditing with Quantile Regression-Based Membership Inference

Terrance Liu, Matteo Boglioni, Yiwei Fu +3

Differential privacy (DP) auditing aims to provide empirical lower bounds on the privacy guarantees of DP mechanisms like DP-SGD. While some existing techniques require many traini…

cs.LG2025

Unlearned but Not Forgotten: Data Extraction after Exact Unlearning in LLM

Xiaoyu Wu, Yifei Pang, Terrance Liu +1

Large Language Models are typically trained on datasets collected from the web, which may inadvertently contain harmful or sensitive personal information. To address growing privac…

cs.CL2025

Calibrating LLMs for Text-to-SQL Parsing by Leveraging Sub-clause Frequencies

Terrance Liu, Shuyi Wang, Daniel Preotiuc-Pietro +2

While large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance on text-to-SQL parsing, they sometimes exhibit unexpected failures in which they are confidently incorrect. Building t…

stat.ML2025

Generate-then-Verify: Reconstructing Data from Limited Published Statistics

Terrance Liu, Eileen Xiao, Adam Smith +2

We study the problem of reconstructing tabular data from aggregate statistics, in which the attacker aims to identify interesting claims about the sensitive data that can be verifi…

cs.LG2025

Winning the MIDST Challenge: New Membership Inference Attacks on Diffusion Models for Tabular Data Synthesis

Xiaoyu Wu, Yifei Pang, Terrance Liu +1

Tabular data synthesis using diffusion models has gained significant attention for its potential to balance data utility and privacy. However, existing privacy evaluations often re…

cs.CL2024

Multi-group Uncertainty Quantification for Long-form Text Generation

Terrance Liu, Zhiwei Steven Wu

While past works have shown how uncertainty quantification can be applied to large language model (LLM) outputs, the question of whether resulting uncertainty guarantees still hold…

cs.NE2023★ 3 cited

Generating Private Synthetic Data with Genetic Algorithms

Terrance Liu, Jingwu Tang, Giuseppe Vietri +1

We study the problem of efficiently generating differentially private synthetic data that approximate the statistical properties of an underlying sensitive dataset. In recent years…

cs.CY2022★ 26 cited

Confidence-Ranked Reconstruction of Census Microdata from Published Statistics

Travis Dick, Cynthia Dwork, Michael Kearns +4

A reconstruction attack on a private dataset takes as input some publicly accessible information about the dataset and produces a list of candidate elements of . We introduc…

cs.LG2022

Private Synthetic Data with Hierarchical Structure

Terrance Liu, Zhiwei Steven Wu

We study the problem of differentially private synthetic data generation for hierarchical datasets in which individual data points are grouped together (e.g., people within househo…

cs.LG2021

Learning Language and Multimodal Privacy-Preserving Markers of Mood from Mobile Data

Paul Pu Liang, Terrance Liu, Anna Cai +7

Mental health conditions remain underdiagnosed even in countries with common access to advanced medical care. The ability to accurately and efficiently predict mood from easily col…

cs.LG2021★ 11 cited

Iterative Methods for Private Synthetic Data: Unifying Framework and New Methods

Terrance Liu, Giuseppe Vietri, Zhiwei Steven Wu

We study private synthetic data generation for query release, where the goal is to construct a sanitized version of a sensitive dataset, subject to differential privacy, that appro…

cs.LG2021★ 18 cited

Leveraging Public Data for Practical Private Query Release

Terrance Liu, Giuseppe Vietri, Thomas Steinke +2

In many statistical problems, incorporating priors can significantly improve performance. However, the use of prior knowledge in differentially private query release has remained u…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Multimodal Privacy-preserving Mood Prediction from Mobile Data: A Preliminary Study

Terrance Liu, Paul Pu Liang, Michal Muszynski +5

Mental health conditions remain under-diagnosed even in countries with common access to advanced medical care. The ability to accurately and efficiently predict mood from easily co…

cs.LG2020★ 138 cited

Think Locally, Act Globally: Federated Learning with Local and Global Representations

Paul Pu Liang, Terrance Liu, Liu Ziyin +5

Federated learning is a method of training models on private data distributed over multiple devices. To keep device data private, the global model is trained by only communicating…