Functional Mechanism is a differentially private method designed for a large class of optimization-based analyses. The main idea is to enforce epsilon-differential privacy by perturbing the objective function of the optimization problem, rather than its results.

Please cite the following paper if you choose to use this code:
J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, X. Xiao, Y. Yang, and M. Winslett. Functional Mechanism: Regression Analysis under Differential Privacy. PVLDB 5(11):1364-1375, 2012.

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  • Differential Privacy
  • Regressions
  • Objective Perturbation

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Programming Language

MATLAB

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MATLAB Information Analysis Software

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2012-09-28