Related papers: Estimation Efficiency Under Privacy Constraints
We study a classical problem in private prediction, the problem of computing an $(m\epsilon, \delta)$-differentially private majority of $K$ $(\epsilon, \Delta)$-differentially private algorithms for $1 \leq m \leq K$ and $1 > \delta \geq…
Differential Privacy (DP) is a well-established framework to quantify privacy loss incurred by any algorithm. Traditional formulations impose a uniform privacy requirement for all users, which is often inconsistent with real-world scenarios…
We study the problem of privacy preservation in data sharing, where $S$ is a sensitive variable to be protected and $X$ is a non-sensitive useful variable correlated with $S$. Variable $X$ is randomized into variable $Y$, which will be…
Differential privacy is becoming a gold standard for privacy research; it offers a guaranteed bound on loss of privacy due to release of query results, even under worst-case assumptions. The theory of differential privacy is an active…
Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for privacy-preserving data analysis. Changing the hyperparameters of a differentially private algorithm allows one to trade off privacy and utility in a principled way. Quantifying this…
We consider the privacy problem of statistical estimation from distributed data, where users communicate to a central processor over a Gaussian multiple-access channel(MAC). To avoid the inevitable sacrifice of data utility for privacy in…
Compressing the output of \epsilon-locally differentially private (LDP) randomizers naively leads to suboptimal utility. In this work, we demonstrate the benefits of using schemes that jointly compress and privatize the data using shared…
In this article, we construct semiparametrically efficient estimators of linear functionals of a probability measure in the presence of side information using an easy empirical likelihood approach. We use estimated constraint functions and…
A new line of work, started with Dwork et al., studies the task of answering statistical queries using a sample and relates the problem to the concept of differential privacy. By the Hoeffding bound, a sample of size $O(\log k/\alpha^2)$…
Hypothesis testing is a statistical inference framework for determining the true distribution among a set of possible distributions for a given dataset. Privacy restrictions may require the curator of the data or the respondents themselves…
In monitoring applications, recent data is more important than distant data. How does this affect privacy of data analysis? We study a general class of data analyses - computing predicate sums - with privacy. Formally, we study the problem…
In this paper we revisit the classical problem of nonparametric regression, but impose local differential privacy constraints. Under such constraints, the raw data $(X_1,Y_1),\ldots,(X_n,Y_n)$, taking values in $\mathbb{R}^d \times…
We study approximation algorithms for Maximum Constraint Satisfaction Problems (Max-CSPs) under differential privacy (DP) where the constraints are considered sensitive data. Information-theoretically, we aim to classify the best…
We study an information theoretic privacy mechanism design problem for two scenarios where the private data is either observable or hidden. In each scenario, we first consider bounded mutual information as privacy leakage criterion, then we…
We consider a non-stochastic privacy-preserving problem in which an adversary aims to infer sensitive information $S$ from publicly accessible data $X$ without using statistics. We consider the problem of generating and releasing a…
We revisit the distributed hypothesis testing (or hypothesis testing with communication constraints) problem from the viewpoint of privacy. Instead of observing the raw data directly, the transmitter observes a sanitized or randomized…
We provide optimal lower bounds for two well-known parameter estimation (also known as statistical estimation) tasks in high dimensions with approximate differential privacy. First, we prove that for any $\alpha \le O(1)$, estimating the…
Convex optimization finds many real-life applications, where--optimized on real data--optimization results may expose private data attributes (e.g., individual health records, commercial information), thus leading to privacy breaches. To…
This work provides tight upper- and lower-bounds for the problem of mean estimation under $\epsilon$-differential privacy in the local model, when the input is composed of $n$ i.i.d. drawn samples from a normal distribution with variance…
In this paper, we study a privacy filter design problem for a sequence of sensor measurements whose joint probability density function (p.d.f.) depends on a private parameter. To ensure parameter privacy, we propose a filter design…