Research Article

Differential Privacy Principal Component Analysis for Support Vector Machines

Table 1

The notations used in this paper.

NotationsMeaning

XA set of samples
i-th piece of sample
nThe number of samples
dThe number of attributes
The value space of samples
AThe covariance matrix of X
EA noise matrix that obeys the Laplace distribution
The covariance matrix after adding noise
The i-th eigenvalue of the matrix
The i-th eigenvector of the matrix
kThe number of principal components
The principal component space, composed of eigenvectors corresponding to the first k eigenvalues
YThe set of low-dimensional samples
The normal vector of classification hyperplane
BThe intercept of classification hyperplane
CThe penalty factor
The privacy budget
The privacy parameter