A Sharp Transition in Data Reconstruction under Differential Privacy
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arXiv:2609.37344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data reconstruction attacks have empirically been successful in recovering training samples from learned models, raising privacy concerns and motivating defenses with guarantees that remain valid against future threats. While differential privacy (DP) provides formal protection, choosing the privacy budget remains a challenge: small budgets severely reduce utility, but it is hard to quantify how large the budget can be without allowing accurate reconstruction. In this work, we study informed attackers who aim to reconstruct a single $d$-dimensi
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- arXiv:2609.37344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data reconstruction attacks have empirically been successful in recovering training samples from learned models, raising privacy concerns and motivating defenses with guarantees that remain valid against future threats.
- While differential privacy (DP) provides formal protection, choosing the privacy budget remains a challenge: small budgets severely reduce utility, but it is hard to quantify how large the budget can be without allowing accurate reconstruction.
- In this work, we study informed attackers who aim to reconstruct a single $d$-dimensi
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