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Abstract
Differential Privacy (DP) is a rigorous privacy standard widely adopted in
data analysis and machine learning. However, its guarantees rely on correctly
introducing randomized noise--an assumption that may not hold if the
implementation is faulty or manipulated by an untrusted analyst. To address
this concern, we propose the first verifiable implementation of the exponential
mechanism using zk-SNARKs. As a concrete application, we present the first
verifiable differentially private (DP) median estimation scheme, which
leverages this construction to ensure both privacy and verifiability. Our
method encodes the exponential mechanism and a utility function for the median
into an arithmetic circuit, employing a scaled inverse CDF technique for
sampling. This design enables cryptographic verification that the reported
output adheres to the intended DP mechanism, ensuring both privacy and
integrity without revealing sensitive data.