Arturs Backurs

Researcher, Microsoft

Joined

July 2019

Names

Arturs Backurs (Preferred)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Microsoft (microsoft.com)

2021 – Present

Assistant Professor

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (ttic.edu)

2018 – 2021

PhD student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2012 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Piotr Indyk

2012 – 2018

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Differentially Private Synthetic Data via APIs 4: Tabular Data
Toan Tran, Arturs Backurs, Zinan Lin, Victor Reis, Li Xiong, Sergey Yekhanin
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Struct-Bench: A Benchmark for Differentially Private Structured Text Generation
Shuaiqi Wang, Vikas Raunak, Arturs Backurs, Victor Reis, Pei Zhou, Sihao Chen, Longqi Yang, Zinan Lin, Sergey Yekhanin, Giulia Fanti
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
DiscQuant: A Quantization Method for Neural Networks Inspired by Discrepancy Theory
Jerry Chee, Arturs Backurs, Rainie Heck, Li Zhang, Janardhan Kulkarni, Thomas Rothvoss, Sivakanth Gopi
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Differentially Private Synthetic Data via Foundation Model APIs 2: Text
Chulin Xie, Zinan Lin, Arturs Backurs, Sivakanth Gopi, Da Yu, Huseyin A Inan, Harsha Nori, Haotian Jiang, Huishuai Zhang, Yin Tat Lee, Bo Li, Sergey Yekhanin
- SeT LLM @ ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Differentially Private Synthetic Data via Foundation Model APIs 2: Text
Chulin Xie, Zinan Lin, Arturs Backurs, Sivakanth Gopi, Da Yu, Huseyin A Inan, Harsha Nori, Haotian Jiang, Huishuai Zhang, Yin Tat Lee, Bo Li, Sergey Yekhanin
- ICML 2024 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Training Private and Efficient Language Models with Synthetic Data from LLMs
Da Yu, Arturs Backurs, Sivakanth Gopi, Huseyin Inan, Janardhan Kulkarni, Zinan Lin, Chulin Xie, Huishuai Zhang, Wanrong Zhang
- SoLaR Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Privately Aligning Language Models with Reinforcement Learning
Fan Wu, Huseyin A Inan, Arturs Backurs, Varun Chandrasekaran, Janardhan Kulkarni, Robert Sim
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Efficiently Computing Similarities to Private Datasets
Arturs Backurs, Zinan Lin, Sepideh Mahabadi, Sandeep Silwal, Jakub Tarnawski
- ICLR 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Unveiling Transformers with LEGO: A Synthetic Reasoning Task
Yi Zhang, Arturs Backurs, Sebastien Bubeck, Ronen Eldan, Suriya Gunasekar, Tal Wagner
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
Exploring the Limits of Differentially Private Deep Learning with Group-wise Clipping
Jiyan He, Xuechen Li, Da Yu, Huishuai Zhang, Janardhan Kulkarni, Yin Tat Lee, Arturs Backurs, Nenghai Yu, Jiang Bian
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 02 Mar 2023
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone

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