Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics

Summary: zkCLEAR: a ZKP-based causal inference framework proving prescriptive recommendations without revealing data or models, enabling verifiable, privacy-preserving prescriptive analytics. Designs ZKP-friendly causal operators and workflow decomposition, yielding major efficiency gains (up to 35.1× faster proofs, 214.5× smaller proofs) over general-purpose ZKP systems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 11 2026)

Paper ID: hd431ed3ac51214c8
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 10,587 | 28.82%
DOI: 10.1145/3769815

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Authors

1. Zhaoyu Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
2. Pingchuan Ma (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
3. Zhantong Xue (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
4. Yanbo Dai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
5. Zhenlan Ji (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
6. Shuai Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{wang_sigmod26,
        title = {{Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics}},
        author = {Wang, Zhaoyu and Ma, Pingchuan and Xue, Zhantong and Dai, Yanbo and Ji, Zhenlan and Wang, Shuai},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3769815},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3769815},
        year = {2026}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
578	The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers	2011	VLDB	0.00016096504
670	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00014954494
803	Interventional Fairness : Causal Database Repair for Algorithmic Fairness	2019	SIGMOD	0.00013836858
1,277	Privacy Preserving Vertical Federated Learning for Tree-based Models	2020	VLDB	0.00011237888
2,315	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	8.6532142e-05
3,063	Explaining Black-Box Algorithms Using Probabilistic Contrastive Counterfactuals	2021	SIGMOD	7.6912904e-05
4,566	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	6.5310568e-05
4,822	ZKSQL: Verifiable and Efficient Query Evaluation with Zero-Knowledge Proofs	2023	VLDB	6.3943931e-05
4,982	XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality	2023	SIGMOD	6.328859e-05
5,409	Data is Dead… Without What-If Models	2011	VLDB	6.1411964e-05
6,183	Causal Data Integration	2023	VLDB	5.8587542e-05
6,436	Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views	2024	SIGMOD	5.7853643e-05
6,480	OTClean: Data Cleaning for Conditional Independence Violations using Optimal Transport	2024	SIGMOD	5.7717996e-05
7,091	PoneglyphDB: Efficient Non-interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Arbitrary SQL-Query Verification	2025	SIGMOD	5.601767e-05
8,334	Continual Observation of Joins under Differential Privacy	2024	SIGMOD	5.3527996e-05
8,541	Secure and Verifiable Data Collaboration with Low-Cost Zero-Knowledge Proofs	2024	VLDB	5.3192847e-05
9,949	Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset	2025	SIGMOD	5.1038322e-05
9,966	Secure Sampling for Approximate Multi-party Query Processing	2023	SIGMOD	5.1038322e-05
9,968	TransNet: Training Privacy-Preserving Neural Network over Transformed Layer	2020	VLDB	5.1038322e-05

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