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Privacy-preserving data release leveraging optimal transport and particle gradient descent

Machine Learning 2024-07-30 v3 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

We present a novel approach for differentially private data synthesis of protected tabular datasets, a relevant task in highly sensitive domains such as healthcare and government. Current state-of-the-art methods predominantly use marginal-based approaches, where a dataset is generated from private estimates of the marginals. In this paper, we introduce PrivPGD, a new generation method for marginal-based private data synthesis, leveraging tools from optimal transport and particle gradient descent. Our algorithm outperforms existing methods on a large range of datasets while being highly scalable and offering the flexibility to incorporate additional domain-specific constraints.

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@article{arxiv.2401.17823,
  title  = {Privacy-preserving data release leveraging optimal transport and particle gradient descent},
  author = {Konstantin Donhauser and Javier Abad and Neha Hulkund and Fanny Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.17823},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Published at the Forty-first International Conference on Machine Learning

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