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ArticleProceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. ICASSP (Conference)2025

Differentially Private Distribution Estimation Using Functional Approximation.

Ye Tao, Anand D Sarwate

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Article in Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. ICASSP (Conference), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Differentially Private Distribution Estimation Using Functional Approximation.Proceedings of the ... IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. ICASSP (Conference) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ye TaoDept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA.
Anand D SarwateDept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, USA.

Funding

COINSTAC: Decentralized, Scalable Analysis of Loosely Coupled DataR01DA040487 · NIDA · THE MIND RESEARCH NETWORK · PI CALHOUN, VINCE D, PLIS, SERGEY · 2015 to 2024
$7.1M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA040487
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cumulative distribution function (CDF) is fundamental due to its ability to reveal information about random variables, making it essential in studies that require privacy-preserving methods to protect sensitive data. This paper introduces a novel privacy-preserving CDF method inspired by the functional analysis and functional mechanism. Our approach projects the empirical CDF into a predefined space, approximating it using specific functions, and protects the coefficients to achieve a differentially private empirical CDF. Compared to existing methods like histogram queries and adaptive quantiles, our method is preferable in decentralized settings and scenarios where CDFs must be updated with newly collected data.

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cumulative distribution function approximationDifferential privacy

Identifiers

PMID42719238
PMCPMC13554298

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