Publication 2004 Issue No. 8 - August Abstract - Privacy: A Machine Learning View
Privacy: A Machine Learning View
August 2004 (vol. 16 no. 8)
pp. 939-948
 ASCII Text x Staal A. Vinterbo, "Privacy: A Machine Learning View," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 939-948, August, 2004.
 BibTex x @article{ 10.1109/TKDE.2004.31,author = {Staal A. Vinterbo},title = {Privacy: A Machine Learning View},journal ={IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},volume = {16},number = {8},issn = {1041-4347},year = {2004},pages = {939-948},doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2004.31},publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},}
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Abstract—The problem of disseminating a data set for machine learning while controlling the disclosure of data source identity is described using a commuting diagram of functions. This formalization is used to present and analyze an optimization problem balancing privacy and data utility requirements. The analysis points to the application of a generalization mechanism for maintaining privacy in view of machine learning needs. We present new proofs of NP-hardness of the problem of minimizing information loss while satisfying a set of privacy requirements, both with and without the addition of a particular uniform coding requirement. As an initial analysis of the approximation properties of the problem, we show that the cell suppression problem with a constant number of attributes can be approximated within a constant. As a side effect, proofs of NP-hardness of the minimum k{\hbox{-}}{\rm{union}}, maximum k{\hbox{-}}{\rm{intersection}}, and parallel versions of these are presented. Bounded versions of these problems are also shown to be approximable within a constant.

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Index Terms:
Privacy, disclosure control, combinatorial optimization, complexity, approximation properties, machine learning.
Citation:
Staal A. Vinterbo, "Privacy: A Machine Learning View," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 939-948, Aug. 2004, doi:10.1109/TKDE.2004.31