Search Results for author: Ali Makhdoumi

Found 4 papers, 0 papers with code

On Three-Layer Data Markets

no code implementations15 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.

The Limits of Price Discrimination Under Privacy Constraints

no code implementations13 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 $\mathbb{R}^2$.

Optimal and Differentially Private Data Acquisition: Central and Local Mechanisms

no code implementations10 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.

Network Maximal Correlation

no code implementations15 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.

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