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48 results for always-valid release

A new method for releasing AI workflows to avoid premature incorrect results.

problem Statistical challenges in releasing AI workflows with adaptive scoring.
method Wrapper that calibrates and accumulates evidence from high-scoring failures.
result Reduces premature incorrect release while still releasing on moderate evidence.

This work establishes always-valid risk bounds for online matrix completion.

problem Challenges in establishing always-valid concentration inequalities for online matrix completion.
method Combines non-asymptotic martingale concentration and regularized low-rank matrix regression.
result Establishes always-valid risk bound process for online matrix completion.

Paper proposes a new dynamic pricing method with always-valid online statistical learning.

problem Designing dynamic pricing policies that adapt to online uncertainty and maintain validity.
method Regularized online statistical learning with theoretical guarantees and three major advantages.
result Proposed OORMLP pricing policy secures logarithmic regret in decision horizon.

Within the setup of continuous-time semimartingale financial markets, we show that a multiprior Gilboa-Schmeidler minimax expected utility maximizer forms a portfolio consisting only of the riskless asset if and only if among the investor's priors there exists a probability measure under which all admissible wealth pro…

2016-08-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework predicts earnings announcements using press release content, surpassing earnings surprises.

problem Predicting stock returns based on earnings press releases.
method Compared traditional and BERT-based embeddings of press releases, finding content as informative as earnings surprises.
result FinBERT yields highest predictive power for earnings announcement returns.

Privacy is enhanced by synthetic data release even with unlimited data.

problem Improving privacy guarantees for synthetic data release.
method Analyzing a bounded-parameter assumption to show privacy amplification persists with unlimited synthetic records.
result Privacy amplification is possible even with an unbounded number of synthetic records.

The paper provides bounds on the CDF of a variable under nonstationary conditions.

problem Estimating the complete distribution of a random variable under nonstationary conditions.
method Time-uniform and value-uniform bounds on the CDF of the running averaged conditional distribution.
result Presented computationally efficient bounds that are always valid and sometimes trivial.

Deep generative models have been wildly successful at learning coherent latent representations for continuous data such as video and audio. However, generative modeling of discrete data such as arithmetic expressions and molecular structures still poses significant challenges. Crucially, state-of-the-art methods often …

2017-03-06abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm maintains privacy while improving model performance in selective release.

problem Privacy degradation and slow convergence in DPSGD.
method Differentially Private Selective Release based on Clipped Gradients (DPSR-CG).
result Maintains strict privacy guarantees while achieving exceptional model performance.

User releases data to service provider while balancing privacy and utility.

problem Balancing user privacy and service utility in data release.
method Formulated as a Markov decision process (MDP) and solved using deep reinforcement learning (RL).
result Achieved a trade-off between revealing useful information and protecting sensitive data.

Proof of local well-posedness for a specific boundary condition in general relativity.

problem Initial boundary value problem in general relativity with umbilic boundary condition.
method Wave coordinates and key observation of momentum constraint validity for umbilic boundaries.
result Local well-posedness established for the initial boundary value problem.

GRAND ensures node-level differential privacy for network data.

problem Lack of node-level differential privacy for network data.
method Proposes GRAND, the first mechanism for releasing networks with node-level differential privacy and preserving structural properties.
result GRAND releases networks while ensuring node-level differential privacy and preserving structural properties.

New algorithms improve privacy-preserving data release using external predictions.

problem Privacy-preserving data release with improved utility using external information.
method Learning-augmented algorithms for multiple quantile release.
result Error guarantees scale with prediction quality, almost recovering state-of-the-art guarantees.

We lay theoretical foundations for new database release mechanisms that allow third-parties to construct consistent estimators of population statistics, while ensuring that the privacy of each individual contributing to the database is protected. The proposed framework rests on two main ideas. First, releasing (an esti…

2017-10-04abs ↗pdf ↗

BioFinBERT analyzes sentiment of biotech press releases and financial text around inflection points.

problem Analyzing sentiment of biotech press releases and financial text around inflection points.
method Finetuning BioBERT on financial datasets to create BioFinBERT for sentiment analysis.
result BioFinBERT accurately analyzes sentiment of biotech press releases and financial text around inflection points.

We introduce GraSPy, a Python library devoted to statistical inference, machine learning, and visualization of random graphs and graph populations. This package provides flexible and easy-to-use algorithms for analyzing and understanding graphs with a scikit-learn compliant API. GraSPy can be downloaded from Python Pac…

2019-03-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper provides a method for noise-calibrated inference from DP synthetic data.

problem Inference from DP synthetic data is often miscalibrated and lacks principled uncertainty quantification.
method Release DP sufficient statistics, perform noise-calibrated likelihood-based inference, and optional synthetic data generation.
result Asymptotic normality and valid confidence intervals for the plug-in DP MLE.

New algorithm corrects bias in LDP-released data for better analysis.

problem Bias in data released under Local Differential Privacy (LDP).
method Inverse Weierstrass Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (IWP-SGD).
result Converges to true population risk minimizer at O(1/n)\mathcal{O}(1/n) rate.

Releasing full data records is one of the most challenging problems in data privacy. On the one hand, many of the popular techniques such as data de-identification are problematic because of their dependence on the background knowledge of adversaries. On the other hand, rigorous methods such as the exponential mechanis…

2017-08-26abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a novel computational strategy for de novo design of molecules with desired properties termed ReLeaSE (Reinforcement Learning for Structural Evolution). Based on deep and reinforcement learning approaches, ReLeaSE integrates two deep neural networks - generative and predictive - that are trained separately b…

2017-11-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose an alternative framework to existing setups for controlling false alarms when multiple A/B tests are run over time. This setup arises in many practical applications, e.g. when pharmaceutical companies test new treatment options against control pills for different diseases, or when internet companies test the…

2017-06-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The study provides a practical strategy for pricing and hedging equity-release mortgages guarantees.

problem Pricing and hedging the No-Negative-Equity-Guarantee in incomplete markets.
method Discrete-time model, Excess-of-Loss reinsurance, numerical illustrations.
result Superhedge cost decreases with more lives in the portfolio, making it more realistic.

Given only positive (P) and unlabeled (U) data, PU learning can train a binary classifier without any negative data. It has two building blocks: PU class-prior estimation (CPE) and PU classification; the latter has been well studied while the former has received less attention. Hitherto, the distributional-assumption-f…

2020-02-10abs ↗pdf ↗

This work addresses privacy issues in IoT data sharing by balancing information disclosure and user privacy.

problem Balancing privacy and utility in time-series data sharing from IoT devices.
method Formulated as POMDPs, solved using A2C DRL, evaluated with synthetic and real data.
result Proposed policies achieve a good balance between privacy and utility.

Three new oracle-efficient algorithms for private synthetic data release.

problem Constructing private synthetic data that preserves statistical query answers.
method Oracle-efficient algorithms using optimization oracles for differential privacy.
result Better accuracy in large workload and high privacy regime compared to state-of-the-art.

Designing a data sharing mechanism without sacrificing too much privacy can be considered as a game between data holders and malicious attackers. This paper describes a compressive adversarial privacy framework that captures the trade-off between the data privacy and utility. We characterize the optimal data releasing …

2018-09-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Differential privacy is a framework for privately releasing summaries of a database. Previous work has focused mainly on methods for which the output is a finite dimensional vector, or an element of some discrete set. We develop methods for releasing functions while preserving differential privacy. Specifically, we sho…

2012-03-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Framework purifies approximate differential privacy to pure differential privacy.

problem Achieving pure differential privacy from approximate differential privacy.
method Randomized post-processing with calibrated noise to eliminate δ parameter.
result First statistically and computationally efficient reduction from approximate DP to pure DP.

Smart Meters (SMs) are able to share the power consumption of users with utility providers almost in real-time. These fine-grained signals carry sensitive information about users, which has raised serious concerns from the privacy viewpoint. In this paper, we focus on real-time privacy threats, i.e., potential attacker…

2019-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

For a dataset of label-count pairs, an anonymized histogram is the multiset of counts. Anonymized histograms appear in various potentially sensitive contexts such as password-frequency lists, degree distribution in social networks, and estimation of symmetric properties of discrete distributions. Motivated by these app…

2019-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper addresses private online convex optimization with optimal algorithms in various geometries and high-dimensional bandits.

problem Private online convex optimization with streaming and continual release data.
method Proposes a private variant of online Frank-Wolfe algorithm with recursive gradients for variance reduction.
result Achieves optimal excess risk in linear time for 1<p21<p\leq 2 and state-of-the-art excess risk for 2<p2<p\leq\infty.

Framework for efficient statistical estimation with privacy guarantees.

problem Statistical estimation problems with differential privacy constraints.
method High-dimensional Propose-Test-Release (HPTR) framework combining exponential mechanism, robust statistics, and resilience.
result Near-optimal utility guarantees and tight local sensitivity bounds for various statistical problems.