Lab News & Updates

March 2026 LAPRAS: Learning-Augmented Private Answering for Linear Query Streams

Real database query streams are highly predictable—dominated by recurring jobs and templates. LAPRAS turns this into a learning-augmented view of online differential privacy: using predictions of which linear queries will arrive to spend a single global privacy budget more wisely, while staying robust when the predictions are wrong. Our Smooth Allocation rule delivers near-offline utility under high overlap and degrades gracefully to baseline otherwise.

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February 23, 2026 QEDBench: Auditing LLMs as Mathematical Judges

We introduce QEDBench, a 272-problem benchmark that decouples mathematical proof generation from verification to reveal systemic limitations in frontier LLM reasoning. Our evaluation of 5 solvers and 7 LLM judges against 1,000+ hours of expert grading reveals a dangerous Sycophancy Trap and the Discrete-Continuous Reasoning Gap.

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