Gap-free Differentially Private PCA for Gaussian Data

📅 2026-09-25
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This study addresses the limitation of existing differentially private principal component analysis (PCA) algorithms, which rely heavily on eigengap assumptions and suffer significant performance degradation under weak separation conditions. To overcome this, we propose a novel differentially private PCA algorithm for Gaussian-distributed data that operates without requiring any eigengap assumption. By integrating differential privacy mechanisms with spectral analysis theory and Gaussian statistical properties, our method circumvents the strong gap conditions imposed by conventional frameworks. This work achieves efficient and secure dimensionality reduction for arbitrary Gaussian data, ensuring robust extraction of principal components even under weak separation while providing rigorous privacy guarantees. Consequently, the proposed approach substantially enhances both the applicability and stability of differentially private PCA in practical settings.
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We give a gap-free differentially private algorithm for the principal component analysis (PCA) problem with Gaussian data.
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Differential Privacy
Principal Component Analysis
Gap-free
Gaussian Data
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Differential Privacy
Principal Component Analysis
Gap-free
Gaussian Data
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