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PAPRIKA: Private Online False Discovery Rate Control
Wanrong Zhang · Gautam Kamath · Rachel Cummings

Thu Jul 22 06:25 AM -- 06:30 AM (PDT) @
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In hypothesis testing, a \emph{false discovery} occurs when a hypothesis is incorrectly rejected due to noise in the sample. When adaptively testing multiple hypotheses, the probability of a false discovery increases as more tests are performed. Thus the problem of \emph{False Discovery Rate (FDR) control} is to find a procedure for testing multiple hypotheses that accounts for this effect in determining the set of hypotheses to reject. The goal is to minimize the number (or fraction) of false discoveries, while maintaining a high true positive rate (i.e., correct discoveries). In this work, we study False Discovery Rate (FDR) control in multiple hypothesis testing under the constraint of differential privacy for the sample. Unlike previous work in this direction, we focus on the \emph{online setting}, meaning that a decision about each hypothesis must be made immediately after the test is performed, rather than waiting for the output of all tests as in the offline setting. We provide new private algorithms based on state-of-the-art results in non-private online FDR control. Our algorithms have strong provable guarantees for privacy and statistical performance as measured by FDR and power. We also provide experimental results to demonstrate the efficacy of our algorithms in a variety of data environments.

Keywords: Algorithms · Meta-Learning · Multitask and Transfer Learning · Privacy, Anonymity, and Security · Social Aspects of Machine Learning

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Wanrong Zhang (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Gautam Kamath (University of Waterloo)
Rachel Cummings (Georgia Tech)

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