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How small changes in distributions affect privacy-preserving sampling?

Aratrika Mustafi, Soumya Mukherjee

May 22, 2026

Gradient-flow sampling generates samples from complex distributions by minimizing an energy functional. This work develops perturbation bounds for flows under spherical Hellinger-Kantorovich geometry, quantifying how errors in the target distribution propagate over time. The authors apply these bounds to differential privacy, deriving explicit privacy certificates (Pure-DP and Approximate-DP) for exponential-mechanism samplers and separating sampling error from inherent algorithmic loss.
Published as On the Stability of Spherical Hellinger-Kantorovich Flows and Their Implications for Differential Privacy arXiv:2605.23879
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