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20242026
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5 papers

quant-ph2026

Qoreo: Choreographic Programming for Quantum Distributed Systems

Jennifer Paykin, Steven Baldasty, Joseph P. Near +1

Programming distributed quantum systems requires multiple actors to coordinate precise sequences of quantum operations, classical communication, and entanglement generation. Writin…

cs.AI2026

Differentially Private Multimodal In-Context Learning

Ivoline C. Ngong, Zarreen Reza, Joseph P. Near

Vision-language models are increasingly applied to sensitive domains such as medical imaging and personal photographs, yet existing differentially private methods for in-context le…

cs.CR2025

Distributed HDMM: Scalable, Distributed, Accurate, and Differentially Private Query Workloads without a Trusted Curator

Ratang Sedimo, Ivoline C. Ngong, Jami Lashua +1

We present the Distributed High-Dimensional Matrix Mechanism (Distributed HDMM), a protocol for answering workloads of linear queries on distributed data that provides the accuracy…

cs.CR2025

SMT-Boosted Security Types for Low-Level MPC

Christian Skalka, Joseph P. Near

Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is an important enabling technology for data privacy in modern distributed applications. We develop a new type theory to automatically enforce…

cs.LG2024

Differentially Private Learning Needs Better Model Initialization and Self-Distillation

Ivoline C. Ngong, Joseph P. Near, Niloofar Mireshghallah

Differentially private SGD (DPSGD) enables privacy-preserving training of language models, but often reduces utility, diversity, and linguistic quality. We introduce DPRefine, a th…