Privacy in Statistics and Machine Learning
Lecture videos (from 2021) can be found in this Google Drive folder.Spring 2025
| Date | Topics | Deliverables |
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| Tue 1/21 |
Lecture 1: Course Overview Video: Watch these two MinutePhysics videos (1, 2). They introduce some of the course topics in the context of the US Census. Lecture Slides: pdf In-class Exercises: pdf (We did not get to these in class. They are posted for reference.) |
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Thu 1/23 |
Lecture 2:
Reconstruction Attacks
I
Video: part 1, part 2 Lecture Notes: pdf that goes with videos (up through 2.3). Additional optional reading on reconstruction:
In-class Exercises: pdf |
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| Tue 1/28 | Lecture 3:
Reconstruction Attacks
II Lecture Notes: pdf (2.4 onward) Video: part 1, part 2 In-class Exercises: pdf |
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| Thu 1/30 |
Lecture 4: Differential Privacy Fundamentals I Lecture Notes: pdf Lecture Slides (in person lecture): pdf Video (from 2021, for reference): part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 |
Homework 1 out (pdf), due Sunday February 16, 2025. |
| Tue 2/4 |
Lecture 5: Differential Privacy Fundamentals II Lecture Notes: pdf Video: part 1, part 2, part 3 In-class Exercises: pdf |
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| Thu 2/6 |
Lecture 6: Exponential Mechanism and Report Noisy Max Lecture Notes: pdf Video: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, In-class Exercises: |
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