Equation 16 · Part 1 · How Training Data and Synthetic Data Actually Work
Symbol varepsilon
What this part means
a number a data controller chooses and can disclose, and a smaller buys a stronger guarantee at the cost of more injected noise and correspondingly lower utility in the resulting synthetic data or model [ 9 ].
Its job in the formula
varepsilon is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Where the article explains it
This is the load-bearing distinction between “privacy-preserving” as a marketing description and as an engineering guarantee: is a number a data controller chooses and can disclose, and a smaller buys a stronger guarantee at the cost of more injected noise and correspondingly lower utility in the resulting synthetic data or model [ 9 ] .
The passage around this formula
…of possible outcomes. In plain terms: the probability of any particular trained model (or any synthetic dataset it produces) coming out of the process is bounded so that it cannot depend too strongly, by a factor set by , on whether any one individual’s record was included or excluded. This is the load-bearing distinction between “privacy-preserving” as a marketing description and as an engineering guarantee: is a number a data controller chooses and can disclose, and a smaller …
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