Daniel Kifer

Information Measures in Statistical Privacy and Data Processing Applications

2015 · ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

In statistical privacy, utility refers to two concepts: information preservation, how much statistical information is retained by a sanitizing algorithm, and usability, how (and with how much difficulty) one extracts this information to build statistical …

Lifelong Neural Predictive Coding: Sparsity Yields Less Forgetting when Learning Cumulatively.

2019 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In lifelong learning systems, especially those based on artificial neural networks, one of the biggest obstacles is the severe inability to retain old knowledge as new information is encountered. This phenomenon is known as catastrophic …