Unleash the Power of Ellipsis: Accuracy-enhanced Sparse Vector Technique with Exponential Noise
Summary: Revisits SVT privacy analysis by exploiting that SVT only releases binary exceedance bits, enabling a less-conservative DP accounting that admits exponential noise as optimal for perturbation. Introduces utility-driven threshold correction and appending strategies to counter exponential-noise bias, boosting precision/recall and improving query accuracy up to ~50% theoretically and empirically. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yuhan Liu (Renmin University of China)
- 2. Sheng Wang (Alibaba)
- 3. Yixuan Liu (Renmin University of China)
- 4. Feifei Li (Alibaba)
- 5. Hong Chen (Renmin University of China)
BibTeX Citation
@article{liu_vldb25,
title = {{Unleash the Power of Ellipsis: Accuracy-enhanced Sparse Vector Technique with Exponential Noise}},
author = {Liu, Yuhan and Wang, Sheng and Liu, Yixuan and Li, Feifei and Chen, Hong},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {2},
pages = {187--199},
doi = {10.14778/3705829.3705838},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3705829.3705838},
year = {2025}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 10,581 | N2E: A General Framework to Reduce Node-Differential Privacy to Edge-Differential Privacy for Graph Analytics | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
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| 2,056 | Understanding the Sparse Vector Technique for Differential Privacy | 2017 | VLDB | 9.111259e-05 |
| 2,585 | Privacy at Scale: Local Differential Privacy in Practice | 2018 | SIGMOD | 8.2572535e-05 |
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