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Course Overview

Aug 26
Course Overview
Slides , HW0

Privacy Attacks

Aug 28
Reconstruction Attacks (Part 1)
Slides, Note, Reading
Aug 30
Recitation
Review on HW0
Sept 2
No Class / Office Hour
Labor Day
Sept 4
Reconstruction Attacks (Part 2)
Slides, Note, Reading
Sept 6
Recitation
Review on HW0

Definitions and Basic Techniques

Sept 9
Definition of Differential Privacy
Randomized Response
Slides, Note, Homework 1
Sept 11
Global Sensitivity and the Laplace Mechanism
Reading, Slides, Note
Sept 13
No Recitation

Definitions and Basic Techniques

Sept 16
Laplace Mechanism and Properties of DP
Note, Slides
Sept 18
Properties of DP, Selection problem
Note, Slides
Sept 20
Recitation
Review on Laplace, DP properties, and HW1

Properties and Mechanisms

Sept 23
Exponential mechanism
Slides, Note
Sept 25
Exponential mechanism and report noisy max
Slides, Note
Sept 27
Recitation
Review on Exp. Mech.

Other notions of DP and Gaussian Mechanism

Sep 30
Approximate DP, Gaussian Mechanism (Part 1)
Slides, Note
Oct 2
Approximate DP, Gaussian Mechanism (Part 2)
Slides, Note
Oct 4
Recitation
Review on Approx. DP, Gauss. Mech., HW 2
Oct 7
Approximate DP and Advanced Composition
Slides, Note
Oct 9
Sparse vector technique, Summary of mechanisms, Intro to ML
Slides, Note
Oct 11
Recitation
Review on Advanced Composition, HW 1&2

Differential Privacy and Machine Learning

Oct 21
Intro to ML
Slides, Note
Oct 23
Test 1

Differential Privacy and Machine Learning

Oct 28
Wrap-Up Privacy Attacks on ML, Intro to Optimization
Slides, Note
Oct 30
DP-SGD
Slides, Note, HW3
Nov 1
Recitation
Review on ML and DP-SGD

Other models of DP ML

Nov 4
Class Canceled
Nov 6
Review DP-SGD; Amplification by subsampling; PATE
Slides
Nov 8
Recitation
Review on DP-SGD, PATE and HW 3
Nov 11
Local DP
Slides
Nov 13
Federated learning, Local DP + Multi-party computation
Reading, Slides
Nov 15
Recitation
Review on Midterm & HW3
Nov 18
Private synthetic data, Review of private ML
Slides

Fairness

Nov 20
Fairness Metrics (Part 1)
Slides
Nov 25
Fairness Metrics (Part 2)

Course Review and Final Exam

Dec 2
Course Review
Dec 4
Final Exam