cs.CRApr 20, 2026

Tight Auditing of Differential Privacy in MST and AIM

Authors: Georgi GanevMeenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva AnnamalaiBogdan Kulynych

Organizations: 1UCL · 2SAS · 3Lausanne University Hospital

Abstract

State-of-the-art Differentially Private (DP) synthetic data generators such as MST and AIM are widely used, yet tightly auditing their privacy guarantees remains challenging. We introduce a Gaussian Differential Privacy (GDP)-based auditing framework that measures privacy via the full false-positive/false-negative tradeoff. Applied to MST and AIM under worst-case settings, our method provides the first tight audits in the strong-privacy regime. For (ε,δ)=(1,102)(ε,δ)=(1,10^{-2}), we obtain μemp0.43μ_{emp}\approx0.43 vs. implied μ=0.45μ=0.45, showing a small theory-practice gap. Our code is publicly available: https://github.com/sassoftware/dpmm.

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