Private Learning of Gaussians and their Mixtures
Speaker:
Hassan Ashtiani, McMaster University
Date and Time:
Friday, July 29, 2022 - 9:00am to 9:30am
Location:
Fields Institute, Room 230
Abstract:
I will explore some recent advances (as well as open problems) in understanding the sample complexity (and computational complexity) of learning Gaussians and their mixtures under (approximate) differential privacy. The canonical problem here is sample-efficient, polytime, and private learning of high-dimensional Gaussians. Another related problem is private learning GMMs. This will be a relatively high-level talk with discussion of the open problems in the field.