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

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math.OC2026

Near-Optimal Acceleration for Smooth / Nondual Convex First-Order Oracle Optimization

David Martínez-Rubio, Brian Bullins, Cristóbal Guzmán +1

We study the optimization of convex objectives with -Hölder-continuous gradients in over , . (MG26) provides selectors with a movement bound fo…

math.OC2026

Stable Movement for Nondual Lipschitz Convex Optimization: Efficiency and Nearly Optimal Oracle Rates

David Martínez-Rubio, Cristóbal Guzmán

We study efficient algorithms for realizing the first-order oracle complexity of optimization of -Lipschitz convex functions with respect to the -norm over an $\ell_{p…

math.OC2026

The First-Order Oracle Complexity of Lipschitz Convex Optimization in Nondual Settings

David Martínez-Rubio, Brian Bullins, Cristóbal Guzmán +1

We study first-order black-box convex optimization over an -ball for objectives Lipschitz in the -norm, solving in the affirmative the nonsmooth version of the COLT…

math.OC2026

Oracle Complexity of Stochastic Fixed-Point Equations with Nonexpansive Maps

Jelena Diakonikolas, Cristóbal Guzmán, David Martínez-Rubio

We study the oracle complexity of computing a point with small fixed-point residual , for a general norm and a self-map of a compact convex set.…

cs.DS2026

Fixed-Parameter Tractability of Private Synthetic Data Generation

Badih Ghazi, Cristóbal Guzmán, Pritish Kamath +3

We study the problem of generating synthetic data under differential privacy. We establish fixed-parameter tractability (FPT) for this problem where the parameter is the treewidth…

cs.CG2026

Computational Hardness of Private Coreset

Badih Ghazi, Cristóbal Guzmán, Pritish Kamath +3

We study the problem of differentially private (DP) computation of coreset for the -means objective. For a given input set of points, a coreset is another set of points such tha…

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.LG2025

PREM: Privately Answering Statistical Queries with Relative Error

Badih Ghazi, Cristóbal Guzmán, Pritish Kamath +4

We introduce (Private Relative Error Multiplicative weight update), a new framework for generating synthetic data that achieves a relative error guarantee for stati…

stat.ML2025

Mixing Times and Privacy Analysis for the Projected Langevin Algorithm under a Modulus of Continuity

Mario Bravo, Juan P. Flores-Mella, Cristóbal Guzmán

We study the mixing time of the projected Langevin algorithm (LA) and the privacy curve of noisy Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD), beyond nonexpansive iterations. Specifically, we…

cs.LG2024

Private Algorithms for Stochastic Saddle Points and Variational Inequalities: Beyond Euclidean Geometry

Raef Bassily, Cristóbal Guzmán, Michael Menart

In this work, we conduct a systematic study of stochastic saddle point problems (SSP) and stochastic variational inequalities (SVI) under the constraint of -differential pri…

math.OC2024

Non-Euclidean High-Order Smooth Convex Optimization

Juan Pablo Contreras, Cristóbal Guzmán, David Martínez-Rubio

We develop algorithms for the optimization of convex objectives that have Hölder continuous -th derivatives by using a -th order oracle, for any . Our algorithms wo…

cs.LG2024

Beyond Minimax Rates in Group Distributionally Robust Optimization via a Novel Notion of Sparsity

Quan Nguyen, Nishant A. Mehta, Cristóbal Guzmán

The minimax sample complexity of group distributionally robust optimization (GDRO) has been determined up to a factor, where is the number of groups. In this work, we…

cs.GT2024

Tracking solutions of time-varying variational inequalities

Hédi Hadiji, Sarah Sachs, Cristóbal Guzmán

Tracking the solution of time-varying variational inequalities is an important problem with applications in game theory, optimization, and machine learning. Existing work considers…

cs.LG2024

Differentially Private Optimization with Sparse Gradients

Badih Ghazi, Cristóbal Guzmán, Pritish Kamath +2

Motivated by applications of large embedding models, we study differentially private (DP) optimization problems under sparsity of individual gradients. We start with new near-optim…

cs.LG2024

Public-data Assisted Private Stochastic Optimization: Power and Limitations

Enayat Ullah, Michael Menart, Raef Bassily +2

We study the limits and capability of public-data assisted differentially private (PA-DP) algorithms. Specifically, we focus on the problem of stochastic convex optimization (SCO)…

math.OC2024

Optimization on a Finer Scale: Bounded Local Subgradient Variation Perspective

Jelena Diakonikolas, Cristóbal Guzmán

We initiate the study of nonsmooth optimization problems under bounded local subgradient variation, which postulates bounded difference between (sub)gradients in small local region…

math.OC2024

Mirror Descent Algorithms with Nearly Dimension-Independent Rates for Differentially-Private Stochastic Saddle-Point Problems

Tomás González, Cristóbal Guzmán, Courtney Paquette

We study the problem of differentially-private (DP) stochastic (convex-concave) saddle-points in the setting. We propose -DP algorithms based on stochast…