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The problem of publishing privacy-guaranteed data for hypothesis testing is studied using the maximal leakage (ML) as a metric for privacy and the type-II error exponent as the utility metric. The optimal mechanism (random mapping) that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Jiachun Liao , Lalitha Sankar , Flavio P. Calmon , Vincent Y. F. Tan

We study private two-terminal hypothesis testing with simple hypotheses where the privacy goal is to ensure that participating in the testing protocol reveals little additional information about the other user's observation when a user is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Varun Narayanan , Manoj Mishra , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

This paper studies the problem of discriminating two multivariate Gaussian distributions in a distributed manner. Specifically, it characterizes in a special case the optimal typeII error exponent as a function of the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Pierre Escamilla , Abdellatif Zaidi , Michèle Wigger

We study the problem of discrete distribution testing in the two-party setting. For example, in the standard closeness testing problem, Alice and Bob each have $t$ samples from, respectively, distributions $a$ and $b$ over $[n]$, and they…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Alexandr Andoni , Tal Malkin , Negev Shekel Nosatzki

Privacy against an adversary (AD) that tries to detect the underlying privacy-sensitive data distribution is studied. The original data sequence is assumed to come from one of the two known distributions, and the privacy leakage is measured…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Zuxing Li , Tobias J. Oechtering , Deniz Gunduz

In distributed hypothesis testing, a central server performs hypothesis testing based on information received from distributed sensors/clients. We study a secure variant of this problem in which the central server determines the hypothesis…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gowtham R. Kurri , Varun Narayanan , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , K. R. Sahasranand

Differential privacy is a de facto standard in data privacy, with applications in the public and private sectors. A way to explain differential privacy, which is particularly appealing to statistician and social scientists is by means of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Borja Balle , Gilles Barthe , Marco Gaboardi , Justin Hsu , Tetsuya Sato

In this work, we give a novel general approach for distribution testing. We describe two techniques: our first technique gives sample-optimal testers, while our second technique gives matching sample lower bounds. As a consequence, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane

This paper resolves two open problems from a recent paper, arXiv:2403.16981, concerning the sample complexity of distributed simple binary hypothesis testing under information constraints. The first open problem asks whether interaction…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Hadi Kazemi , Ankit Pensia , Varun Jog

The trade-off of hypothesis tests on the correlated privacy hypothesis and utility hypothesis is studied. The error exponent of the Bayesian composite hypothesis test on the privacy or utility hypothesis can be characterized by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Zuxing Li , Tobias J. Oechtering

The distributed hypothesis testing problem with full side-information is studied. The trade-off (reliability function) between the two types of error exponents under limited rate is studied in the following way. First, the problem is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Nir Weinberger , Yuval Kochman

We study distributed goodness-of-fit testing for discrete distribution under bandwidth and differential privacy constraints. Information constraint distributed goodness-of-fit testing is a problem that has received considerable attention…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Lasse Vuursteen

We study a hypothesis testing problem with a privacy constraint over a noisy channel and derive the performance of optimal tests under the Neyman-Pearson criterion. The fundamental limit of interest is the privacy-utility tradeoff (PUT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Lin Zhou , Daming Cao

We study hypothesis testing under communication constraints, where each sample is quantized before being revealed to a statistician. Without communication constraints, it is well known that the sample complexity of simple binary hypothesis…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-19 Ankit Pensia , Varun Jog , Po-Ling Loh

We study the role of interactivity in distributed statistical inference under information constraints, e.g., communication constraints and local differential privacy. We focus on the tasks of goodness-of-fit testing and estimation of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Jayadev Acharya , Clément L. Canonne , Yuhan Liu , Ziteng Sun , Himanshu Tyagi

We consider the problem of hypothesis testing for discrete distributions. In the standard model, where we have sample access to an underlying distribution $p$, extensive research has established optimal bounds for uniformity testing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Piotr Indyk , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Sandeep Silwal

In this paper, we initiate a principled study of how the generalization properties of approximate differential privacy can be used to perform adaptive hypothesis testing, while giving statistically valid $p$-value corrections. We do this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Ryan Rogers , Aaron Roth , Adam Smith , Om Thakkar

We study a distributed binary hypothesis testing (HT) problem with communication and security constraints, involving three parties: a remote sensor called Alice, a legitimate decision centre called Bob, and an eavesdropper called Eve, all…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Sara Faour , Mustapha Hamad , Mireille Sarkiss , Michele Wigger

We study the fundamental problems of identity testing (goodness of fit), and closeness testing (two sample test) of distributions over $k$ elements, under differential privacy. While the problems have a long history in statistics, finite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Jayadev Acharya , Ziteng Sun , Huanyu Zhang

In this paper, we consider methods for performing hypothesis tests on data protected by a statistical disclosure control technology known as differential privacy. Previous approaches to differentially private hypothesis testing either…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Yue Wang , Jaewoo Lee , Daniel Kifer