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Youming Tao

6 accepted papers

2026

Finding Differentially Private Second Order Stationary Points in Stochastic Minimax Optimization

ICML 2026poster

We provide the first study of the problem of finding differentially private (DP) second-order stationary points (SOSP) in stochastic (non-convex) minimax optimization. Existing literature either focuses only on first-order stationary points for minimax problems or on SOSP for classical stochastic mi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Trajectory-Aware Certified Decentralized Unlearning via SGD Stability

ICML 2026poster

Decentralized Unlearning (DU) aims to remove the influence of specific clients from a collaboratively trained global model. However, existing methods suffer from strong reliance on static, problem-specific hyperparameters or restrictive convexity assumptions, limiting their general applicability. To…

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2025

Second-Order Convergence in Private Stochastic Non-Convex Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

We investigate the problem of finding second-order stationary points (SOSP) in differentially private (DP) stochastic non-convex optimization. Existing methods suffer from two key limitations: \textbf{(i)} inaccurate convergence error rate due to overlooking gradient variance in the saddle point esc…

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2022

Optimal Rates of (Locally) Differentially Private Heavy-tailed Multi-Armed Bandits

AISTATS 2022poster

In this paper we investigate the problem of stochastic multi-armed bandits (MAB) in the (local) differential privacy (DP/LDP) model. Unlike previous results that assume bounded/sub-Gaussian reward distributions, we focus on the setting where each arm’s reward distribution only has $(1+v)$-th moment…

Cited by 38SourcePDFScholar
2022

Private Stochastic Convex Optimization and Sparse Learning with Heavy-tailed Data Revisited

IJCAI 2022poster

In this paper, we revisit the problem of Differentially Private Stochastic Convex Optimization (DP-SCO) with heavy-tailed data, where the gradient of the loss function has bounded moments. Instead of the case where the loss function is Lipschitz or each coordinate of the gradient has bounded second…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar