February 2020
Gaussian Differential Privacy, with Applications to Deep Learning
Weijie Su (University of Pennsylvania)
Abstract: Privacy-preserving data analysis has been put on a firm mathematical foundation since the introduction of differential privacy (DP) in 2006. This privacy definition, however, has some well-known weaknesses: notably, it does not tightly handle composition. This weakness has inspired several recent relaxations of differential privacy based on the Renyi divergences. We propose an alternative relaxation we term "f-DP", which has a number of nice properties and avoids some of the difficulties associated with divergence based relaxations. First, f-DP preserves…
Find out more »Diffusion K-means Clustering on Manifolds: provable exact recovery via semidefinite relaxations
Xiaohui Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Abstract: We introduce the diffusion K-means clustering method on Riemannian submanifolds, which maximizes the within-cluster connectedness based on the diffusion distance. The diffusion K-means constructs a random walk on the similarity graph with vertices as data points randomly sampled on the manifolds and edges as similarities given by a kernel that captures the local geometry of manifolds. Thus the diffusion K-means is a multi-scale clustering tool that is suitable for data with non-linear and non-Euclidean geometric features in mixed dimensions. Given…
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