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: h6e3fadd8fb2494ca
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 5.6871881e-05
Overall Rank: 6,766 | 54.51%
DOI: 10.1145/2463676.2465330

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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
1,155	PrivBayes: Private Data Release via Bayesian Networks	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011777587
1,324	PrivTree: A Differentially Private Algorithm for Hierarchical Decompositions	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011023355
3,711	Bolt-on Differential Privacy for Scalable Stochastic Gradient Descent-based Analytics	2017	SIGMOD	7.0783969e-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	0.00031089378
625	Optimizing Linear Counting Queries Under Differential Privacy	2010	PODS	0.00015478765
800	Differentially Private Data Cubes: Optimizing Noise Sources and Consistency	2011	SIGMOD	0.00013875702
1,246	No Free Lunch in Data Privacy	2011	SIGMOD	0.00011346748
1,453	PrivBasis: Frequent Itemset Mining with Differential Privacy	2012	VLDB	0.0001060277
1,955	GUPT: Privacy Preserving Data Analysis Made Easy	2012	SIGMOD	9.3176117e-05
1,989	Low-Rank Mechanism: Optimizing Batch Queries under Differential Privacy	2012	VLDB	9.246325e-05
5,146	A Rigorous and Customizable Framework for Privacy	2012	PODS	6.2558307e-05
5,285	Functional Mechanism: Regression Analysis under Differential Privacy	2012	VLDB	6.1975714e-05

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