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Poster
Differentially Private Bayesian Linear Regression
Garrett Bernstein · Daniel Sheldon

Tue Dec 10 10:45 AM -- 12:45 PM (PST) @ East Exhibition Hall B + C #90
in Applications -- Privacy, Anonymity, and Security »

Linear regression is an important tool across many fields that work with sensitive human-sourced data. Significant prior work has focused on producing differentially private point estimates, which provide a privacy guarantee to individuals while still allowing modelers to draw insights from data by estimating regression coefficients. We investigate the problem of Bayesian linear regression, with the goal of computing posterior distributions that correctly quantify uncertainty given privately released statistics. We show that a naive approach that ignores the noise injected by the privacy mechanism does a poor job in realistic data settings. We then develop noise-aware methods that perform inference over the privacy mechanism and produce correct posteriors across a wide range of scenarios.

Keywords: Privacy, Anonymity, and Security · Applications · Algorithms -> Regression; Algorithms -> Uncertainty Estimation; Probabilistic Methods; Probabilistic Methods · Graphical Model
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Garrett Bernstein (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Daniel Sheldon (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

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