Summary of Feature Selection From Differentially Private Correlations, by Ryan Swope et al.
Feature Selection from Differentially Private Correlations
by Ryan Swope, Amol Khanna, Philip Doldo, Saptarshi Roy, Edward Raff
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed research investigates methods for identifying crucial features in high-dimensional datasets while maintaining data privacy. The existing approach, two-stage selection technique, is evaluated and found to be unstable under sparsity, leading to poor performance on real-world datasets. To address this limitation, a new method is introduced that leverages correlations-based order statistics to select important features and privatizes the results to prevent leakage of information about individual datapoints. The proposed approach demonstrates significant improvement over the established baseline for private feature selection on various datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The research explores ways to find key features in large datasets while keeping the data secret. It checks how well a current method works, called two-stage selection technique, and finds that it doesn’t perform well when dealing with sparse data. To fix this problem, a new approach is developed that uses statistics based on correlations to choose important features and keeps the results private. This new method does much better than the old one in many cases. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Feature selection
