On the Differential Privacy of Bayesian Inference

Authors: Zuhe Zhang, Benjamin Rubinstein, Christos Dimitrakakis

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Worked examples and experiments with Bayesian naïve Bayes and Bayesian linear regression illustrate the application of our mechanisms. ... Experiments Having proposed a number of mechanisms for approximating exact Bayesian inference in the general framework of probabilistic graphical models, we now demonstrate our approaches on two simple, well-known PGMs: the (generative) naïve Bayes classifier, and (discriminative) linear regression.
Researcher Affiliation Academia School of Mathematics and Statistics, Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Australia zhang.zuhe@gmail.com, brubinstein@unimelb.edu.au Christos Dimitrakakis Univ-Lille-3, France Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden christos.dimitrakakis@gmail.com
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 Laplace Mechanism on Posterior Updates ... Algorithm 2 Laplace Mechanism in the Fourier Domain ... Algorithm 3 Mechanism for MAP Point Estimates
Open Source Code No No explicit statement or link providing access to the paper's source code.
Open Datasets Yes U.S. census records dataset from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (Minnesota Population Center 2009) with 370k records and 14 demographic features. ... https: //international.ipums.org accessed 2015-08-30.
Dataset Splits No The paper describes train and test splits, but no explicit mention of a separate validation set.
Hardware Specification No No specific hardware details (e.g., GPU/CPU models, memory amounts) are provided for the experimental setup.
Software Dependencies No No specific software dependencies with version numbers (e.g., libraries, frameworks, or solvers) are mentioned.
Experiment Setup Yes We trained our mechanisms on only 50 examples, with uniform Beta priors. ... t was set for the Fourier approach, so that stealth was achieved 90% of the time those times that contributed to the plot. ... varying prior precision b (inverse of covariance) and weights with bounded norm 10/ b