Non-Stochastic Hypothesis Testing with Application to Privacy Against Hypothesis-Testing Adversaries

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Farokhi, FDate
2020-03-12Source Title
Proceedings of the ... IEEE Conference on Decision & Control / IEEE Control Systems Society. IEEE Conference on Decision & ControlPublisher
IEEEUniversity of Melbourne Author/s
Farokhi, FarhadAffiliation
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Farokhi, F. (2020). Non-Stochastic Hypothesis Testing with Application to Privacy Against Hypothesis-Testing Adversaries. Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2019-December, pp.6118-6123. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029652.Access Status
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We consider privacy against hypothesis-testing adversaries within a non-stochastic framework. We develop a theory of non-stochastic hypothesis testing by borrowing the notion of uncertain variables from non-stochastic information theory. We define tests as binary-valued mappings on uncertain variables and prove a fundamental bound on the performance of tests in non-stochastic hypothesis testing. We use this bound to develop a measure of privacy. We then construct reporting policies with prescribed privacy and utility guarantees. The utility of a reporting policy is measured by the distance between reported and original values. We illustrate the effects of using such privacy-preserving reporting polices on a publicly- available practical dataset of preferences and demographics of young individuals with Slovakian nationality.
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