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most citedThe Cost of Privacy: Rates of Convergence for Parameter Estimation with Differential Privacy

47 citations · 84 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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math.ST2023★ 2 cited

Score Attack: A Lower Bound Technique for Optimal Differentially Private Learning

T. Tony Cai, Yichen Wang, Linjun Zhang

Achieving optimal statistical performance while ensuring the privacy of personal data is a challenging yet crucial objective in modern data analysis. However, characterizing the op…

stat.ML2020★ 12 cited

The Cost of Privacy in Generalized Linear Models: Algorithms and Minimax Lower Bounds

T. Tony Cai, Yichen Wang, Linjun Zhang

We propose differentially private algorithms for parameter estimation in both low-dimensional and high-dimensional sparse generalized linear models (GLMs) by constructing private v…

stat.ME2020★ 7 cited

Estimation, Confidence Intervals, and Large-Scale Hypotheses Testing for High-Dimensional Mixed Linear Regression

Linjun Zhang, Rong Ma, T. Tony Cai +1

This paper studies the high-dimensional mixed linear regression (MLR) where the output variable comes from one of the two linear regression models with an unknown mixing proportion…

stat.ME2019★ 5 cited

A Convex Optimization Approach to High-Dimensional Sparse Quadratic Discriminant Analysis

T. Tony Cai, Linjun Zhang

In this paper, we study high-dimensional sparse Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA) and aim to establish the optimal convergence rates for the classification error. Minimax lower…

stat.ML2019★ 47 cited

The Cost of Privacy: Rates of Convergence for Parameter Estimation with Differential Privacy

T. Tony Cai, Yichen Wang, Linjun Zhang

We study the minimax cost of -differential privacy for mean estimation and Gaussian linear regression in low and high dimensions. For low-dimensional mean estimati…

stat.ME2018★ 11 cited

High-dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis: Optimality, Adaptive Algorithm, and Missing Data

T. Tony Cai, Linjun Zhang

This paper aims to develop an optimality theory for linear discriminant analysis in the high-dimensional setting. A data-driven and tuning free classification rule, which is based…