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The reproducibility variables underlying each score are classified using an automated LLM-based pipeline, validated against a manually labeled dataset. LLM-based classification introduces uncertainty and potential bias; scores should be interpreted as estimates.

Locally Private Gaussian Estimation

Authors: Matthew Joseph, Janardhan Kulkarni, Jieming Mao, Steven Z. Wu

NeurIPS 2019 | Venue PDF | LLM Run Details | Input Tokens: 14,582 Total number of tokens sent to the LLM as input for this paper's analysis. | Output Tokens: 3,463 Total number of tokens produced by the LLM (including reasoning/thinking tokens) for this paper's analysis.

Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical We match these upper bounds with an information-theoretic lower bound showing that our accuracy guarantees are tight up to logarithmic factors for all sequentially interactive locally private protocols.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration Matthew Joseph University of Pennsylvania EMAIL Janardhan Kulkarni Microsoft Research Redmond EMAIL Jieming Mao Google Research New York EMAIL Zhiwei Steven Wu University of Minnesota EMAIL
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 KVGAUSSTIMATE, Algorithm 2 KVAGG1, Algorithm 3 ESTMEAN, Algorithm 4 KVRR2, Algorithm 5 KVAGG2, Algorithm 6 UVGAUSSTIMATE
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any statements or links regarding the public availability of source code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper is theoretical and focuses on estimation problem with i.i.d. samples from a Gaussian distribution, without referring to any specific publicly available dataset or providing access information for one.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not involve empirical experiments requiring dataset splits for training, validation, or testing.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not describe any specific hardware used for running experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not specify any software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and focuses on algorithm design and proofs rather than empirical experimental setup details like hyperparameters or training configurations.