arxivcs.CRcs.DSmath.NAstat.APstat.ML2026-06-29
A Sieve-Accelerated Quadrature Method for Exact Privacy Accounting in the 2020 U.S. Decennial Census
Buxin Su, Weijie Su, Chendi Wang
In 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau adopted differential privacy for the Decennial Census by injecting integer-valued Gaussian noise into published census tabulations. Exactly evaluating the privacy guarantees of these data releases would enable the Bureau to determine the absolute m…