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Study Of Fundamental Tradeoff Between Deliverable And Private Information In Statistical Inference, Farhang Bayat
Study Of Fundamental Tradeoff Between Deliverable And Private Information In Statistical Inference, Farhang Bayat
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
My primary objective in this dissertation is to establish a framework under which I launch a systematic study of the fundamental tradeoff between deliverable and private information in statistical inference. My research was partly motivated by arising and prevailing privacy concerns of users in many machine learning problems.
In this dissertation, I begin by introducing examples where I am concerned of privacy leakage versus decision utility in statistical inference problems. I then go into further details about what I have achieved in formulating and solving such problems using information theory related metrics in a variety of settings. Both related works …