no code implementations • 15 Feb 2024 • Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian
We study a three-layer data market comprising users (data owners), platforms, and a data buyer.
no code implementations • 13 Feb 2024 • Alireza Fallah, Michael I. Jordan, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian
We consider a privacy mechanism that provides a degree of protection by probabilistically masking each market segment, and we establish that the resultant set of all consumer-producer utilities forms a convex polygon, characterized explicitly as a linear mapping of a certain high-dimensional convex polytope into $\mathbb{R}^2$.
no code implementations • 10 Jan 2022 • Alireza Fallah, Ali Makhdoumi, Azarakhsh Malekian, Asuman Ozdaglar
We consider a platform's problem of collecting data from privacy sensitive users to estimate an underlying parameter of interest.
no code implementations • 15 Jun 2016 • Soheil Feizi, Ali Makhdoumi, Ken Duffy, Muriel Medard, Manolis Kellis
For jointly Gaussian variables, we show that under some conditions the NMC optimization is an instance of the Max-Cut problem.