A second order cone formulation of continuous CTA model

Goran Lesaja, Jordi Castro, Anna Oganian

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Abstract

In this paper we consider a minimum distance Controlled Tabular Adjustment (CTA) model for statistical disclosure limitation (control) of tabular data. The goal of the CTA model is to find the closest safe table to some original tabular data set that contains sensitive information. The measure of closeness is usually measured using ℓ1 or ℓ2 norm; with each measure having its advantages and disadvantages. Recently, in [4] a regularization of the ℓ1-CTA using Pseudo-Huber function was introduced in an attempt to combine positive characteristics of both ℓ1-CTA and ℓ2-CTA. All three models can be solved using appropriate versions of Interior-Point Methods (IPM). It is known that IPM in general works better on well structured problems such as conic optimization problems, thus, reformulation of these CTA models as conic optimization problem may be advantageous. We present reformulation of Pseudo-Huber-CTA, and ℓ1-CTA as Second-Order Cone (SOC) optimization problems and test the validity of the approach on the small example of two-dimensional tabular data set.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPrivacy in Statistical Databases - UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy International Conference, PSD 2016, Proceedings
EditorsJosep Domingo-Ferrer, Mirjana Pejić-Bach
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages41-53
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783319453804
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventInternational Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2016 - Dubrovnik, Croatia
Duration: Sep 14 2016Sep 16 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9867 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2016
Country/TerritoryCroatia
CityDubrovnik
Period09/14/1609/16/16

Keywords

  • Controlled tabular adjustment models
  • Convex optimization
  • Interior-point methods
  • Pseudo-huber function
  • Second-order cone optimization
  • Statistical disclosure limitation (control)

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