The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)

Practical Differential Privacy at LinkedIn with Ryan Rogers - #346

Today we’re joined by Ryan Rogers, Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, to discuss his paper “Practical Differentially Private Top-k Selection with Pay-what-you-get Composition.” In our conversation, we discuss how LinkedIn allows its data scientists to access aggregate user data for exploratory analytics while maintaining its users’ privacy through differential privacy, and the connection between a common algorithm for implementing differential privacy, the exponential mechanism, and Gumbel noise.

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are dramatically changing the way businesses operate and people live. The TWIML AI Podcast brings the top minds and ideas from the world of ML and AI to a broad and influential community of ML/AI researchers, data scientists, engineers and tech-savvy business and IT leaders. Hosted by Sam Charrington, a sought after industry analyst, speaker, commentator and thought leader. Technologies covered include machine learning, artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing, neural networks, analytics, computer science, data science and more.