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Adaptive attacks on linear sketches hit quadratic barrier

Researchers have demonstrated that adaptive attacks on linear sketches, which compress high-dimensional data, are fundamentally limited by a quadratic barrier. Even with a responder that knows all attack details and can adapt its strategy, the optimal privacy guarantee is $\widetilde{\Omega}(k^2)$, where $k$ is the sketch dimension. The study shows that for any hidden matrix $A$ and accuracy $\alpha$, an adaptive black-box attack can force a significant fraction of answers to have substantial relative error, clarifying the limits of defending linear representations. AI

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Adaptive attacks on linear sketches hit quadratic barrier

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Edith Cohen, Uri Stemmer ·

    No Escape from the Quadratic Barrier: Adaptive Attacks on Linear $\ell_2$ Sketches

    arXiv:2610.25008v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Linear sketches estimate properties of high-dimensional inputs from a fixed low-dimensional projection. At constant accuracy, randomized Euclidean-norm sketches, notably the Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform, support exponen…