activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

cs.DB2026

ResidualPlanner+: a scalable matrix mechanism for marginals and beyond

Guanlin He, Yingtai Xiao, Levent Toksoz +3

Noisy marginals are a common form of confidentiality protecting data release and are useful for many downstream tasks such as contingency table analysis, construction of Bayesian n…

cs.DB2026

Accurate and Scalable Matrix Mechanisms via Divide and Conquer

Guanlin He, Yingtai Xiao, Jiamu Bai +4

Matrix mechanisms are often used to provide unbiased differentially private query answers when publishing statistics or creating synthetic data. Recent work has developed matrix me…

cs.LG2026

Correlating Cross-Iteration Noise for DP-SGD using Model Curvature

Xin Gu, Yingtai Xiao, Guanlin He +3

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) offers the promise of training deep learning models while mitigating many privacy risks. However, there is currently a l…

cs.DB2026

Fast Private Adaptive Query Answering for Large Data Domains

Miguel Fuentes, Brett Mullins, Yingtai Xiao +3

Privately releasing marginals of a tabular dataset is a foundational problem in differential privacy. However, state-of-the-art mechanisms suffer from a computational bottleneck wh…

cs.CR2025

Click Without Compromise: Online Advertising Measurement via Per User Differential Privacy

Yingtai Xiao, Jian Du, Shikun Zhang +4

Online advertising is a cornerstone of the Internet ecosystem, with advertising measurement playing a crucial role in optimizing efficiency. Ad measurement entails attributing desi…

cs.LG2024

Efficient and Private Marginal Reconstruction with Local Non-Negativity

Brett Mullins, Miguel Fuentes, Yingtai Xiao +3

Differential privacy is the dominant standard for formal and quantifiable privacy and has been used in major deployments that impact millions of people. Many differentially private…