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8 papers

cs.LG2026

PE-means: Improved Differentially Private -means Clustering through Private Evolution

Thomas Humphries, Zinan Lin, Sergey Yekhanin

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) -means clustering in Euclidean space. Previous solutions rely on summing the private data directly, which induces a sensitivi…

cs.LG2026

Differentially Private Synthetic Data via APIs 4: Tabular Data

Toan Tran, Arturs Backurs, Zinan Lin +3

This paper investigates the problem of generating synthetic tabular data with differential privacy (DP) guarantees, enabling data sharing in sensitive domains. Despite extensive st…

cs.CR2026

DP-SAPF: Saliency-Aware Parameter Fine-tuning of Public Models for Differentially Private Image Synthesis

Chen Gong, Kecen Li, Zinan Lin +1

Differentially private (DP) image synthesis generates images that preserve the statistical characteristics of a sensitive dataset, enabling sensitive data analysis and usage while…

cs.CR2026

Differentially Private Contrastive Learning via Bounding Group-level Contribution

Kecen Li, Chen Gong, Zinan Lin +2

Differentially private (DP) contrastive learning aims to learn general-purpose representations from sensitive data, alleviating the privacy leakage concerns of organizations deploy…

cs.CL2026

DP-RFT: Learning to Generate Synthetic Text via Differentially Private Reinforcement Fine-Tuning

Fangyuan Xu, Sihao Chen, Zinan Lin +13

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation plays a pivotal role in developing large language models (LLMs) on private data, where data owners cannot provide eyes-on acce…

cs.CR2026

From Easy to Hard++: Promoting Differentially Private Image Synthesis Through Spatial-Frequency Curriculum

Chen Gong, Kecen Li, Zinan Lin +1

To improve the quality of Differentially private (DP) synthetic images, most studies have focused on improving the core optimization techniques (e.g., DP-SGD). Recently, we have wi…