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Computing Local Sensitivities of Counting Queries with Joins
Summary: Local sensitivity of counting queries with joins is NP-hard, even for acyclic conjunctive queries. We track and summarize tuple sensitivities with join-tree algorithms, yielding polynomial-time results for doubly acyclic (incl. path) queries and bounded-degree joins; extendable to some non-acyclic cases via generalized hypertree decompositions, with orders of magnitude DP privacy gains.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 5978
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2020
- Pagerank
- 7.5985351e-05
- Overall Rank
- 3,083 | 78.58%
- DOI
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10.1145/3318464.3389762
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