Time-uniform self-normalized concentration for vector-valued processes

J Whitehouse, ZS Wu, A Ramdas - arxiv preprint arxiv:2310.09100, 2023 - arxiv.org
Self-normalized processes arise naturally in many statistical tasks. While self-normalized
concentration has been extensively studied for scalar-valued processes, there is less work …

Adaptive principal component regression with applications to panel data

A Agarwal, K Harris, J Whitehouse… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Principal component regression (PCR) is a popular technique for fixed-design error-in-
variables regression, a generalization of the linear regression setting in which the observed …

Privacy guarantees for personal mobility data in humanitarian response

N Kohli, E Aiken, JE Blumenstock - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Personal mobility data from mobile phones and other sensors are increasingly used to
inform policymaking during pandemics, natural disasters, and other humanitarian crises …

Adaptive privacy composition for accuracy-first mechanisms

RM Rogers, G Samorodnitsk, SZ Wu… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Although there has been work to develop ex-post private mechanisms from Ligett et al.'17
and Whitehouse et al'22 that seeks to provide privacy guarantees subject to a target level of …

Advancing differential privacy: Where we are now and future directions for real-world deployment

R Cummings, D Desfontaines, D Evans… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this article, we present a detailed review of current practices and state-of-the-art
methodologies in the field of differential privacy (DP), with a focus of advancing DP's …

Meeting Utility Constraints in Differential Privacy: A Privacy-Boosting Approach

B Jiang, W Zhang, D Lu, J Du, S Sharma… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Data engineering often requires accuracy (utility) constraints on results, posing significant
challenges in designing differentially private (DP) mechanisms, particularly under stringent …

Private Count Release: A Simple and Scalable Approach for Private Data Analytics

R Rogers - arxiv preprint arxiv:2403.05073, 2024 - arxiv.org
We present a data analytics system that ensures accurate counts can be released with
differential privacy and minimal onboarding effort while showing instances that outperform …

[PDF][PDF] Modern Martingale Methods: Theory and Applications

JA Whitehouse - 2024 - reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu
Martingale concentration is at the heart of sequential statistical inference. Due to their time-
uniform concentration of measure properties, martingales allow researchers to perform …

Differential privacy with fine-grained provenance: Opportunities and challenges

X He, S Zhang - Data Engineering, 2023 - sites.computer.org
Differential privacy (DP) offers a robust framework for protecting individual privacy when
analyzing data. However, the elegant abstractions used in DP theory do not always translate …

Randomized Response with Gradual Release of Privacy Budget

M Pan - arxiv preprint arxiv:2401.13952, 2024 - arxiv.org
An algorithm is developed to gradually relax the Differential Privacy (DP) guarantee of a
randomized response. The output from each relaxation maintains the same probability …