8 Search Results for "Sheffet, Or"


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A Differentially Private Approximation of the Width Problem

Authors: Mor Hale and Or Sheffet

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 368, 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2026)


Abstract
The width of a point set - the minimum distance between two parallel hyperplanes enclosing the data - is a fundamental geometric measure that captures how "flat" or "fat" a dataset is. As such, it serves as a basic shape descriptor used in visualization, convex hull approximation, and geometric data analysis. Despite its importance, width is highly sensitive to single-point changes, and no differentially private algorithm for approximating it was previously known. We present the first pure ε-differentially private algorithm that approximates the width of a dataset. Our algorithm is a private adaptation of Chan’s approximation scheme [Chan, 2000] and operates by privately approximating the solution to a collection of suitably formulated linear programs. In addition to estimating the width, our method privately identifies a corresponding direction, enabling a private "fattening" transformation of the dataset - a basic structural preprocessing step for many geometric algorithms. This work advances the understanding of how geometric shape descriptors can admit good approximations even under the constraints of differential privacy.

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Mor Hale and Or Sheffet. A Differentially Private Approximation of the Width Problem. In 7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 368, pp. 18:1-18:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{hale_et_al:LIPIcs.FORC.2026.18,
  author =	{Hale, Mor and Sheffet, Or},
  title =	{{A Differentially Private Approximation of the Width Problem}},
  booktitle =	{7th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2026)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-419-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{368},
  editor =	{Lin, Huijia (Rachel)},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-259914},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2026.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential privacy, computational geometry, width approximation, private algorithms}
}
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Uniformity Testing Under User-Level Local Privacy

Authors: Clément L. Canonne, Abigail Gentle, and Vikrant Singhal

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
We initiate the study of distribution testing under user-level local differential privacy, where each of n users contributes m samples from the unknown underlying distribution. This setting, albeit very natural, is significantly more challenging than the usual locally private setting, as for the same parameter ε the privacy guarantee must now apply to a full batch of m data points. While some recent work considers distribution learning in this user-level setting, nothing was known for even the most fundamental testing task, uniformity testing (and its generalization, identity testing). We address this gap, by providing (nearly) sample-optimal user-level LDP algorithms for uniformity and identity testing. Motivated by practical considerations, our main focus is on the private-coin, symmetric setting, which does not require users to share a common random seed nor to have been assigned a globally unique identifier.

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Clément L. Canonne, Abigail Gentle, and Vikrant Singhal. Uniformity Testing Under User-Level Local Privacy. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 33:1-33:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{canonne_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.33,
  author =	{Canonne, Cl\'{e}ment L. and Gentle, Abigail and Singhal, Vikrant},
  title =	{{Uniformity Testing Under User-Level Local Privacy}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{33:1--33:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253201},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential Privacy, Local Differential Privacy, Uniformity Testing, Identity Testing, Hypothesis Testing, User-Level Differential Privacy, Person-Level Differential Privacy}
}
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Solving Linear Programs with Differential Privacy

Authors: Alina Ene, Huy Le Nguyen, Ta Duy Nguyen, and Adrian Vladu

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 353, Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)


Abstract
We study the problem of solving linear programs of the form Ax ≤ b, x ≥ 0 with differential privacy. For homogeneous LPs Ax ≥ 0, we give an efficient (ε,δ)-differentially private algorithm which with probability at least 1-β finds in polynomial time a solution that satisfies all but O(d²/ε log²(d/(δβ))√{log 1/ρ₀}) constraints, for problems with margin ρ₀ > 0. This improves the bound of O(d⁵/ε log^{1.5} 1/ρ₀ polylog(d,1/δ,1/β)) by [Kaplan-Mansour-Moran-Stemmer-Tur, STOC '25]. For general LPs Ax ≤ b, x ≥ 0 with potentially zero margin, we give an efficient (ε,δ)-differentially private algorithm that w.h.p drops O(d⁴/ε log^{2.5} d/δ √{log dU}) constraints, where U is an upper bound for the entries of A and b in absolute value. This improves the result by Kaplan et al. by at least a factor of d⁵. Our techniques build upon privatizing a rescaling perceptron algorithm by [Hoberg-Rothvoss, IPCO '17] and a more refined iterative procedure for identifying equality constraints by Kaplan et al.

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Alina Ene, Huy Le Nguyen, Ta Duy Nguyen, and Adrian Vladu. Solving Linear Programs with Differential Privacy. In Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 353, pp. 65:1-65:17, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{ene_et_al:LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.65,
  author =	{Ene, Alina and Le Nguyen, Huy and Nguyen, Ta Duy and Vladu, Adrian},
  title =	{{Solving Linear Programs with Differential Privacy}},
  booktitle =	{Approximation, Randomization, and Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Techniques (APPROX/RANDOM 2025)},
  pages =	{65:1--65:17},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-397-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{353},
  editor =	{Ene, Alina and Chattopadhyay, Eshan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.65},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-244315},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.APPROX/RANDOM.2025.65},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential Privacy, Linear Programming}
}
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Differential Privacy Under Multiple Selections

Authors: Ashish Goel, Zhihao Jiang, Aleksandra Korolova, Kamesh Munagala, and Sahasrajit Sarmasarkar

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 329, 6th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2025)


Abstract
We consider the setting where a user with sensitive features wishes to obtain a recommendation from a server in a differentially private fashion. We propose a "multi-selection" architecture where the server can send back multiple recommendations and the user chooses one from these that matches best with their private features. When the user feature is one-dimensional - on an infinite line - and the accuracy measure is defined w.r.t some increasing function 𝔥(.) of the distance on the line, we precisely characterize the optimal mechanism that satisfies differential privacy. The specification of the optimal mechanism includes both the distribution of the noise that the user adds to its private value, and the algorithm used by the server to determine the set of results to send back as a response. We show that Laplace is an optimal noise distribution in this setting. Furthermore, we show that this optimal mechanism results in an error that is inversely proportional to the number of results returned when the function 𝔥(.) is the identity function.

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Ashish Goel, Zhihao Jiang, Aleksandra Korolova, Kamesh Munagala, and Sahasrajit Sarmasarkar. Differential Privacy Under Multiple Selections. In 6th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 329, pp. 8:1-8:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{goel_et_al:LIPIcs.FORC.2025.8,
  author =	{Goel, Ashish and Jiang, Zhihao and Korolova, Aleksandra and Munagala, Kamesh and Sarmasarkar, Sahasrajit},
  title =	{{Differential Privacy Under Multiple Selections}},
  booktitle =	{6th Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC 2025)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-367-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{329},
  editor =	{Bun, Mark},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2025.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-231353},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.FORC.2025.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential Privacy, Mechanism Design and Multi-Selection}
}
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Cycle Counting Under Local Differential Privacy for Degeneracy-Bounded Graphs

Authors: Quentin Hillebrand, Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn, and Tetsuo Shibuya

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 327, 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)


Abstract
We propose an algorithm for counting the number of cycles under local differential privacy for degeneracy-bounded input graphs. Numerous studies have focused on counting the number of triangles under the privacy notion, demonstrating that the expected 𝓁₂-error of these algorithms is Ω(n^{1.5}), where n is the number of nodes in the graph. When parameterized by the number of cycles of length four (C₄), the best existing triangle counting algorithm has an error of O(n^{1.5} + √C₄) = O(n²). In this paper, we introduce an algorithm with an expected 𝓁₂-error of O(δ^1.5 n^0.5 + δ^0.5 d_max^0.5 n^0.5), where δ is the degeneracy and d_{max} is the maximum degree of the graph. For degeneracy-bounded graphs (δ ∈ Θ(1)) commonly found in practical social networks, our algorithm achieves an expected 𝓁₂-error of O(d_{max}^{0.5} n^{0.5}) = O(n). Our algorithm’s core idea is a precise count of triangles following a preprocessing step that approximately sorts the degree of all nodes. This approach can be extended to approximate the number of cycles of length k, maintaining a similar 𝓁₂-error, namely O(δ^{(k-2)/2} d_max^0.5 n^{(k-2)/2} + δ^{k/2} n^{(k-2)/2}) or O(d_max^0.5 n^{(k-2)/2}) = O(n^{(k-1)/2}) for degeneracy-bounded graphs.

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Quentin Hillebrand, Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn, and Tetsuo Shibuya. Cycle Counting Under Local Differential Privacy for Degeneracy-Bounded Graphs. In 42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 327, pp. 49:1-49:22, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{hillebrand_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2025.49,
  author =	{Hillebrand, Quentin and Suppakitpaisarn, Vorapong and Shibuya, Tetsuo},
  title =	{{Cycle Counting Under Local Differential Privacy for Degeneracy-Bounded Graphs}},
  booktitle =	{42nd International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2025)},
  pages =	{49:1--49:22},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-365-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{327},
  editor =	{Beyersdorff, Olaf and Pilipczuk, Micha{\l} and Pimentel, Elaine and Thắng, Nguy\~{ê}n Kim},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.49},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-228748},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2025.49},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential privacy, triangle counting, degeneracy, arboricity, graph theory, parameterized accuracy}
}
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Online Versus Offline Adversaries in Property Testing

Authors: Esty Kelman, Ephraim Linder, and Sofya Raskhodnikova

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 325, 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025)


Abstract
We study property testing with incomplete or noisy inputs. The models we consider allow for adversarial manipulation of the input, but differ in whether the manipulation can be done only offline, i.e., before the execution of the algorithm, or online, i.e., as the algorithm runs. The manipulations by an adversary can come in the form of erasures or corruptions. We compare the query complexity and the randomness complexity of property testing in the offline and online models. Kalemaj, Raskhodnikova, and Varma (Theory Comput. `23) provide properties that can be tested with a small number of queries with offline erasures, but cannot be tested at all with online erasures. We demonstrate that the two models are incomparable in terms of query complexity: we construct properties that can be tested with a constant number of queries in the online corruption model, but require querying a significant fraction of the input in the offline erasure model. We also construct properties that exhibit a strong separation between the randomness complexity of testing in the presence of offline and online adversaries: testing these properties in the online model requires exponentially more random bits than in the offline model, even when they are tested with nearly the same number of queries in both models. Our randomness separation relies on a novel reduction from randomness-efficient testers in the adversarial online model to query-efficient testers in the standard model.

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Esty Kelman, Ephraim Linder, and Sofya Raskhodnikova. Online Versus Offline Adversaries in Property Testing. In 16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 325, pp. 65:1-65:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{kelman_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.65,
  author =	{Kelman, Esty and Linder, Ephraim and Raskhodnikova, Sofya},
  title =	{{Online Versus Offline Adversaries in Property Testing}},
  booktitle =	{16th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2025)},
  pages =	{65:1--65:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-361-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{325},
  editor =	{Meka, Raghu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.65},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-226933},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2025.65},
  annote =	{Keywords: Property Testing, Online Adversary, Offline Adversary, Query Complexity, Randomness Complexity, Separations}
}
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Differentially Private Approximations of a Convex Hull in Low Dimensions

Authors: Yue Gao and Or Sheffet

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 199, 2nd Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2021)


Abstract
We give the first differentially private algorithms that estimate a variety of geometric features of points in the Euclidean space, such as diameter, width, volume of convex hull, min-bounding box, min-enclosing ball, etc. Our work relies heavily on the notion of Tukey-depth. Instead of (non-privately) approximating the convex-hull of the given set of points P, our algorithms approximate the geometric features of D_{P}(κ) - the κ-Tukey region induced by P (all points of Tukey-depth κ or greater). Moreover, our approximations are all bi-criteria: for any geometric feature μ our (α,Δ)-approximation is a value "sandwiched" between (1-α)μ(D_P(κ)) and (1+α)μ(D_P(κ-Δ)). Our work is aimed at producing a (α,Δ)-kernel of D_P(κ), namely a set 𝒮 such that (after a shift) it holds that (1-α)D_P(κ) ⊂ CH(𝒮) ⊂ (1+α)D_P(κ-Δ). We show that an analogous notion of a bi-critera approximation of a directional kernel, as originally proposed by [Pankaj K. Agarwal et al., 2004], fails to give a kernel, and so we result to subtler notions of approximations of projections that do yield a kernel. First, we give differentially private algorithms that find (α,Δ)-kernels for a "fat" Tukey-region. Then, based on a private approximation of the min-bounding box, we find a transformation that does turn D_P(κ) into a "fat" region but only if its volume is proportional to the volume of D_P(κ-Δ). Lastly, we give a novel private algorithm that finds a depth parameter κ for which the volume of D_P(κ) is comparable to the volume of D_P(κ-Δ). We hope our work leads to the further study of the intersection of differential privacy and computational geometry.

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Yue Gao and Or Sheffet. Differentially Private Approximations of a Convex Hull in Low Dimensions. In 2nd Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 199, pp. 18:1-18:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{gao_et_al:LIPIcs.ITC.2021.18,
  author =	{Gao, Yue and Sheffet, Or},
  title =	{{Differentially Private Approximations of a Convex Hull in Low Dimensions}},
  booktitle =	{2nd Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2021)},
  pages =	{18:1--18:16},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-197-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{199},
  editor =	{Tessaro, Stefano},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2021.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-143377},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2021.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Differential Privacy, Computational Geometry, Tukey Depth}
}
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The Power of Synergy in Differential Privacy: Combining a Small Curator with Local Randomizers

Authors: Amos Beimel, Aleksandra Korolova, Kobbi Nissim, Or Sheffet, and Uri Stemmer

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 163, 1st Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2020)


Abstract
Motivated by the desire to bridge the utility gap between local and trusted curator models of differential privacy for practical applications, we initiate the theoretical study of a hybrid model introduced by "Blender" [Avent et al., USENIX Security '17], in which differentially private protocols of n agents that work in the local-model are assisted by a differentially private curator that has access to the data of m additional users. We focus on the regime where m ≪ n and study the new capabilities of this (m,n)-hybrid model. We show that, despite the fact that the hybrid model adds no significant new capabilities for the basic task of simple hypothesis-testing, there are many other tasks (under a wide range of parameters) that can be solved in the hybrid model yet cannot be solved either by the curator or by the local-users separately. Moreover, we exhibit additional tasks where at least one round of interaction between the curator and the local-users is necessary - namely, no hybrid model protocol without such interaction can solve these tasks. Taken together, our results show that the combination of the local model with a small curator can become part of a promising toolkit for designing and implementing differential privacy.

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Amos Beimel, Aleksandra Korolova, Kobbi Nissim, Or Sheffet, and Uri Stemmer. The Power of Synergy in Differential Privacy: Combining a Small Curator with Local Randomizers. In 1st Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 163, pp. 14:1-14:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)


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@InProceedings{beimel_et_al:LIPIcs.ITC.2020.14,
  author =	{Beimel, Amos and Korolova, Aleksandra and Nissim, Kobbi and Sheffet, Or and Stemmer, Uri},
  title =	{{The Power of Synergy in Differential Privacy: Combining a Small Curator with Local Randomizers}},
  booktitle =	{1st Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2020)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-151-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{163},
  editor =	{Tauman Kalai, Yael and Smith, Adam D. and Wichs, Daniel},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2020.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-121195},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2020.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: differential privacy, hybrid model, private learning, local model}
}
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