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most citedImproved Approximations for Euclidean -means and -median, via Nested Quasi-Independent Sets

6 citations · 26 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.CL2026

TCS-BENCH: Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Generative AI Theoretical Computer Science Research Ability

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Dimitris Paparas, Ernest van Wijland +13

We introduce TCS-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on research-level Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) proof generation. TCS-Bench consists of theorem…

cs.LG2026

Towards Automating Scientific Review with Google's Paper Assistant Tool

Rajesh Jayaram, Drew Tyler, David Woodruff +4

Artificial intelligence is driving a revolution in scientific discovery, accelerating everything from hypothesis generation to mathematical theorem proving. However, this rapid acc…

cs.CL2026★ 3 cited

Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini: Case Studies and Common Techniques

David P. Woodruff, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Lalit Jain +33

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have opened new avenues for accelerating scientific research. While models are increasingly capable of assisting with routine tasks,…

cs.CR2025★ 1 cited

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…

cs.DS2025

Approximating High-Dimensional Earth Mover's Distance as Fast as Closest Pair

Lorenzo Beretta, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Rajesh Jayaram +1

We give a reduction from -approximate Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) to -approximate Closest Pair (CP). As a consequence, we improve the fastest kno…

cs.DS2025

Scalable contribution bounding to achieve privacy

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Alessandro Epasto, Jason Lee +1

In modern datasets, where single records can have multiple owners, enforcing user-level differential privacy requires capping each user's total contribution. This "contribution bou…

cs.LG2025

Private Training & Data Generation by Clustering Embeddings

Felix Zhou, Samson Zhou, Vahab Mirrokni +2

Deep neural networks often use large, high-quality datasets to achieve high performance on many machine learning tasks. When training involves potentially sensitive data, this proc…

cs.CL2025

Efficient Data Selection at Scale via Influence Distillation

Mahdi Nikdan, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Dan Alistarh +1

Effective data selection is critical for efficient training of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). This paper introduces Influence Distillation, a novel, mathematically-justified…

cs.DS2025

Scalable Private Partition Selection via Adaptive Weighting

Justin Y. Chen, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Alessandro Epasto +1

In the differentially private partition selection problem (a.k.a. private set union, private key discovery), users hold subsets of items from an unbounded universe. The goal is to…

cs.DS2024

Dynamic Correlation Clustering in Sublinear Update Time

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Silvio Lattanzi, Andreas Maggiori +1

We study the classic problem of correlation clustering in dynamic node streams. In this setting, nodes are either added or randomly deleted over time, and each node pair is connect…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Multi-View Stochastic Block Models

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Tommaso d'Orsi, Silvio Lattanzi +1

Graph clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning with a multitude of practical applications. In recent years, multi-view graph clustering has gained a lot of attention…

cs.LG2024

Perturb-and-Project: Differentially Private Similarities and Marginals

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Tommaso d'Orsi, Alessandro Epasto +2

We revisit the input perturbations framework for differential privacy where noise is added to the input and the result is then projected back to the space of adm…

cs.DS2024

A Scalable Algorithm for Individually Fair K-means Clustering

MohammadHossein Bateni, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Alessandro Epasto +1

We present a scalable algorithm for the individually fair (, )-clustering problem introduced by Jung et al. and Mahabadi et al. Given points in a metric space, let $δ…

cs.DS2023

Metric Embeddings Beyond Bi-Lipschitz Distortion via Sherali-Adams

Ainesh Bakshi, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Samuel B. Hopkins +2

Metric embeddings are a widely used method in algorithm design, where generally a ``complex'' metric is embedded into a simpler, lower-dimensional one. Historically, the theoretica…

cs.CG2023

Multi-Swap -Means++

Lorenzo Beretta, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Silvio Lattanzi +1

The -means++ algorithm of Arthur and Vassilvitskii (SODA 2007) is often the practitioners' choice algorithm for optimizing the popular -means clustering objective and is know…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Differentially-Private Hierarchical Clustering with Provable Approximation Guarantees

Jacob Imola, Alessandro Epasto, Mohammad Mahdian +2

Hierarchical Clustering is a popular unsupervised machine learning method with decades of history and numerous applications. We initiate the study of differentially private approxi…

cs.DS2023★ 1 cited

Private estimation algorithms for stochastic block models and mixture models

Hongjie Chen, Vincent Cohen-Addad, Tommaso d'Orsi +4

We introduce general tools for designing efficient private estimation algorithms, in the high-dimensional settings, whose statistical guarantees almost match those of the best know…

cs.DS2022★ 2 cited

Scalable Differentially Private Clustering via Hierarchically Separated Trees

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Alessandro Epasto, Silvio Lattanzi +5

We study the private -median and -means clustering problem in dimensional Euclidean space. By leveraging tree embeddings, we give an efficient and easy to implement algor…

cs.DS2022★ 6 cited

Improved Approximations for Euclidean -means and -median, via Nested Quasi-Independent Sets

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Hossein Esfandiari, Vahab Mirrokni +1

Motivated by data analysis and machine learning applications, we consider the popular high-dimensional Euclidean -median and -means problems. We propose a new primal-dual alg…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Near-Optimal Correlation Clustering with Privacy

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Chenglin Fan, Silvio Lattanzi +4

Correlation clustering is a central problem in unsupervised learning, with applications spanning community detection, duplicate detection, automated labelling and many more. In the…

cs.DS2021★ 3 cited

Correlation Clustering in Constant Many Parallel Rounds

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Silvio Lattanzi, Slobodan Mitrović +3

Correlation clustering is a central topic in unsupervised learning, with many applications in ML and data mining. In correlation clustering, one receives as input a signed graph an…

cs.LG2020★ 5 cited

Fast and Accurate -means++ via Rejection Sampling

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Silvio Lattanzi, Ashkan Norouzi-Fard +2

-means++ \cite{arthur2007k} is a widely used clustering algorithm that is easy to implement, has nice theoretical guarantees and strong empirical performance. Despite its wide a…