Principled Evaluation of Differentially Private Algorithms using DPBench

Summary: DPBench: a principled, standardized framework for evaluating differential privacy algorithms. 15 algorithms on 27 datasets (1D/2D ranges) reveal data-dependent noise and scale/shape effects; resolves inconsistencies and benchmarks against baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5184
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 8.7833594e-05
Overall Rank: 2,300 | 84.23%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2882931

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Authors

1. Michael Hay (Colgate University)
2. Ashwin Machanavajjhala (Duke University)
3. Gerome Miklau (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
4. Yan Chen (Duke University)
5. Dan Zhang (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hay_sigmod16,
        title = {{Principled Evaluation of Differentially Private Algorithms using DPBench}},
        author = {Hay, Michael and Machanavajjhala, Ashwin and Miklau, Gerome and Chen, Yan and Zhang, Dan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2882931},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2882931},
        year = {2016}
}

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281	Towards Practical Differential Privacy for SQL Queries	2018	VLDB	0.00022445849
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2,167	Optimizing error of high-dimensional statistical queries under differential privacy	2018	VLDB	9.047803e-05
2,818	CryptEpsilon: Crypto-Assisted Differential Privacy on Untrusted Servers	2020	SIGMOD	8.0932359e-05
2,841	AIM: An Adaptive and Iterative Mechanism for Differentially Private Synthetic Data	2022	VLDB	8.0637668e-05
4,132	Answering Multi-Dimensional Range Queries under Local Differential Privacy	2021	VLDB	6.8832571e-05
4,185	Bolt-on Differential Privacy for Scalable Stochastic Gradient Descent-based Analytics	2017	SIGMOD	6.8462927e-05
4,361	ϵktelo: A Framework for Defining Differentially-Private Computations	2018	SIGMOD	6.7443476e-05
5,008	Exploring Privacy-Accuracy Tradeoffs using DPComp	2016	SIGMOD	6.4027712e-05
5,055	APEx: Accuracy-Aware Differentially Private Data Exploration	2019	SIGMOD	6.3824509e-05
6,804	A Neural Database for Differentially Private Spatial Range Queries	2022	VLDB	5.768025e-05
7,147	Architecting a Differentially Private SQL Engine	2019	CIDR	5.6902859e-05
7,359	Pythia: Data Dependent Differentially Private Algorithm Selection	2017	SIGMOD	5.6341162e-05
7,429	Benchmarking the Utility of w-event Differential Privacy Mechanisms - When Baselines Become Mighty Competitors	2023	VLDB	5.6201416e-05
7,668	A Neural Approach to Spatio-Temporal Data Release with User-Level Differential Privacy	2023	SIGMOD	5.5711643e-05
7,898	A workload-adaptive mechanism for linear queries under local differential privacy	2020	VLDB	5.5196369e-05
9,602	Answering Private Linear Queries Adaptively using the Common Mechanism	2023	VLDB	5.2487195e-05
9,604	Framework for Differentially Private Data Analysis with Multiple Accuracy Requirements	2021	SIGMOD	5.2487195e-05
10,442	Defense against Poisoning Attacks under Shuffle-DP	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,459	Epistemic Parity: Reproducibility as an Evaluation Metric for Differential Privacy	2023	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,532	DIAS: Differentially Private Interactive Algorithm Selection using Pythia	2017	SIGMOD	-

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
62	Privacy Integrated Queries: An Extensible Platform for Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis	2009	SIGMOD	0.00038970535
121	Boosting the Accuracy of Differentially Private Histograms Through Consistency	2010	VLDB	0.00031639377
267	Optimal Histograms with Quality Guarantees	1998	VLDB	0.00022798161
567	Understanding Hierarchical Methods for Differentially Private Histograms	2013	VLDB	0.00016420715
611	Optimizing Linear Counting Queries Under Differential Privacy	2010	PODS	0.00015747402
1,504	A Data- and Workload-Aware Algorithm for Range Queries Under Differential Privacy	2014	VLDB	0.00010548904
1,956	Low-Rank Mechanism: Optimizing Batch Queries under Differential Privacy	2012	VLDB	9.4157042e-05
2,108	An Adaptive Mechanism for Accurate Query Answering under Differential Privacy	2012	VLDB	9.1553397e-05
2,799	iReduct: Differential Privacy with Reduced Relative Errors	2011	SIGMOD	8.1125988e-05
3,871	DPT: Differentially Private Trajectory Synthesis Using Hierarchical Reference Systems	2015	VLDB	7.0581665e-05
4,029	Differential Privacy in Telco Big Data Platform	2015	VLDB	6.946445e-05

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