PrivGene: Differentially Private Model Fitting Using Genetic Algorithms

Summary: PrivGene is a DP model-fitting framework using genetic algorithms to reduce perturbation and improve quality vs baselines. Novelty: enhanced exponential mechanism for model fitting; results on logistic regression, SVM, and k-means. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 4799
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.7782652e-05
Overall Rank: 6,772 | 53.54%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465330

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Authors

1. Jun Zhang (Nanyang Technological University)
2. Xiaokui Xiao (Nanyang Technological University)
3. Yin Yang (Advanced Digital Sciences Center; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
4. Zhenjie Zhang (Advanced Digital Sciences Center)
5. Marianne Winslett (Advanced Digital Sciences Center; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod13,
        title = {{PrivGene: Differentially Private Model Fitting Using Genetic Algorithms}},
        author = {Zhang, Jun and Xiao, Xiaokui and Yang, Yin and Zhang, Zhenjie and Winslett, Marianne},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '13},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2463676.2465330},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2463676.2465330},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,169	PrivBayes: Private Data Release via Bayesian Networks	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011838753
1,308	PrivTree: A Differentially Private Algorithm for Hierarchical Decompositions	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011216361
4,185	Bolt-on Differential Privacy for Scalable Stochastic Gradient Descent-based Analytics	2017	SIGMOD	6.8462927e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
121	Boosting the Accuracy of Differentially Private Histograms Through Consistency	2010	VLDB	0.00031639377
611	Optimizing Linear Counting Queries Under Differential Privacy	2010	PODS	0.00015747402
775	Differentially Private Data Cubes: Optimizing Noise Sources and Consistency	2011	SIGMOD	0.00014110531
1,230	No Free Lunch in Data Privacy	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011572271
1,421	PrivBasis: Frequent Itemset Mining with Differential Privacy	2012	VLDB	0.00010828328
1,906	GUPT: Privacy Preserving Data Analysis Made Easy	2012	SIGMOD	9.5020196e-05
1,956	Low-Rank Mechanism: Optimizing Batch Queries under Differential Privacy	2012	VLDB	9.4157042e-05
5,027	A Rigorous and Customizable Framework for Privacy	2012	PODS	6.3969504e-05
5,248	Functional Mechanism: Regression Analysis under Differential Privacy	2012	VLDB	6.3003629e-05

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