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Klopp-Zadik Question on Polynomial-Time Node-Private Recovery

Klopp and Zadik gave an exponential-time node-private algorithm for exact community recovery in stochastic block models and asked whether a polynomial-time algorithm could match it. One can: a Lipschitz surrogate for the penalized likelihood plus an accept-reject sampler gives a high-probability polynomial-time node-private algorithm that nearly matches the exponential-time guarantee.