Fri 12 Jan 2018 14:05 - 14:30 at Watercourt - Probability Chair(s): Lars Birkedal

In this paper, we present a push-button, automated technique for verifying $\epsilon$-differential privacy of sophisticated randomized algorithms. We make a range of conceptual, algorithmic,and practical contributions: (1) Inspired by the recent advances on approximate couplings and randomness alignment, we present a new proof technique called coupling strategies, which casts differential privacy proofs as discovering a strategy in a game where we have finite privacy resources to expend. (2) To discover a winning strategy, we present a constraint-based formulation of the problem as solving a set of Horn modulo couplings (HMC) constraints, a novel kind of constraints combining first-order Horn clauses with probabilistic constraints. (3) We present a technique for solving HMC constraints by transforming probabilistic constraints into logical constraints with uninterpreted functions. (4) Finally, we implement our technique and provide the first automated proofs of a number of algorithms from the differential privacy literature, including Report Noisy Max, the Exponential Mechanism, and the Sparse Vector Mechanism.

Fri 12 Jan

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13:40 - 15:20
ProbabilityResearch Papers at Watercourt
Chair(s): Lars Birkedal Aarhus University
13:40
25m
Talk
Proving expected sensitivity of probabilistic programs
Research Papers
Gilles Barthe IMDEA Software Institute, Thomas Espitau Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Benjamin Gregoire INRIA, Justin Hsu University College London, Pierre-Yves Strub Ecole Polytechnique
14:05
25m
Talk
Synthesizing Coupling Proofs of Differential Privacy
Research Papers
Aws Albarghouthi University of Wisconsin-Madison, Justin Hsu University College London
14:30
25m
Talk
Measurable cones and stable, measurable functions
Research Papers
Thomas Ehrhard CNRS and University Paris Diderot, Michele Pagani University Paris Diderot, Christine Tasson University Paris Diderot
14:55
25m
Talk
Denotational validation of higher-order Bayesian inference
Research Papers
Adam Ścibior University of Cambridge and MPI Tuebingen, Ohad Kammar University of Oxford, Matthijs Vákár University of Oxford, Sam Staton University of Oxford, Hongseok Yang University of Oxford, Yufei Cai University of Tuebingen, Klaus Ostermann University of Tuebingen, Sean Moss University of Oxford, Chris Heunen University of Edinburgh, Zoubin Ghahramani University of Cambridge