Empirical denoiser enables privacy accounting for diffusion sampling

The authors construct a privacy-accountable empirical denoiser with explicit per-step sensitivity, showing that privacy loss concentrates in the critical window where semantic content forms and can be reduced via subsampling and hybrid samplers.

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William Cheng · Mijung Park · Dongjun Kim

University of British Columbia · Stanford University

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Cheng et al.

The authors introduce a training-free empirical denoiser that averages over a dataset with a bounded per-sample contribution, clipped so that its sensitivity is exactly 2C/|D|.

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