Walter McKelvie

Selected Papers

Computation-Utility-Privacy Tradeoffs in Bayesian Estimation

Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), 2026.

Settling Pure Differentially Private Covariance Estimation

Manuscript, 2026. Under review for ICML 2026.

Mean Estimation over R: Optimal Sub-Gaussianity with Outlier Robustness and Low Moments Performance

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025. Spotlight paper selected for oral presentation.

Accountable Secret Leader Election

Advances in Financial Technology (AFT), 2024.

Improving Pearson's chi-squared test: hypothesis testing of distributions - optimally

Manuscript, 2023.