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Revolutionizing Data Privacy for AI and Machine Learning

Recent original work from Google Research introduces breakthrough algorithms designed to significantly enhance user privacy in large-scale data releases for AI and machine learning. Their innovative MaxAdaptiveDegree (MAD) approach optimizes differentially private partition selection by adaptively reallocating 'excess' weight. This method markedly improves the privacy-utility trade-off, allowing for the release of more useful data while upholding robust privacy guarantees. The parallel algorithm demonstrates state-of-the-art results, scales to hundreds of billions of items, and has been open-sourced to foster broader adoption in the field.

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Securing private data at scale with differentially private partition selection

Google Research unveils breakthrough algorithms to enhance user privacy in large-scale data releases for AI and ML. Their novel MaxAdaptiveDegree (MAD) approach significantly improves differentially private partition selection. By adaptively reallocating "excess" weight, MAD optimizes the privacy-utility trade-off, enabling the release of more useful data while maintaining robust privacy guarantees. This parallel algorithm scales to hundreds of billions of items, achieving state-of-the-art results and is open-sourced for broader adoption.
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