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Google Research unveils scalable privacy tech for large AI datasets

Google Research has developed new algorithms for differentially private partition selection, a technique that enables the safe sharing of large datasets for AI and machine learning advancements. Their parallel algorithm, detailed in the paper "Scalable Private Partition Selection via Adaptive Weighting" at ICML2025, can process datasets with hundreds of billions of items, significantly outperforming previous sequential methods. This innovation aims to balance robust privacy guarantees with data utility, allowing for the extraction of valuable information like common words from private text corpora without compromising individual user data. Google is open-sourcing this technology to foster community collaboration. AI

IMPACT Enables safer and more scalable use of large datasets for AI training, potentially accelerating model development.

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    Securing private data at scale with differentially private partition selection

    Algorithms & Theory