Daniel G. Alabi

alabid [at] cs [dot] columbia [dot] edu

Research Papers

NaijaCoder: Participatory Design for Early Algorithms Education in the Global South
with Atinuke Adegbile, Alida Monaco, Lekan Afuye, and Philip Abel
To appear: In Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), 2024  [arxiv] 
Differentially Private Hypothesis Testing for Linear Regression
with Salil Vadhan
Journal on Machine Learning Research (JMLR) 2023  [JMLR] 
Saibot: A Differentially Private Data Search Platform
with Zezhou Huang, Jiaxiang Liu, Raul Castro Fernandez, Eugene Wu
Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2023  [arxiv] 
Bounded Space Differentially Private Quantiles
with Omri Ben-Eliezer and Anamay Chaturvedi
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2023  [TMLR] 
TPDP, 2021  [arxiv] 
Degree Distribution Identifiability of Stochastic Kronecker Multiplication
with Dimitris Kalimeris
2023  [arxiv] 
Privately Estimating a Gaussian: Efficient, Robust and Optimal
with Pravesh K. Kothari, Pranay Tankala, Prayaag Venkat, Fred Zhang
Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2023  [arxiv]  [ACM] 
The Algorithmic Foundations of Private Computational Social Science
Doctoral Dissertation, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2022  [DASH] 
Private Rank Aggregation in Central and Local Models
with Badih Ghazi, Ravi Kumar, and Pasin Manurangsi
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022  [arxiv] 
PPML, 2021 
Hypothesis Testing for Differentially Private Linear Regression
with Salil Vadhan
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022 
IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) 2022 Annual Meeting [arxiv] 
SEA (Southern Economic Association) 2022 Annual Meeting
TPDP, 2021 
Privacy Budget Tailoring in Private Data Analysis
with Chris Wiggins
Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) 2023 [TMLR] 
Differentially Private Simple Linear Regression
with Audra McMillan, Jayshree Sarathy, Adam Smith, and Salil Vadhan
Journal on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs), 2022  [arxiv] 
TPDP, 2020 
The Cost of a Reductions Approach to Private Fair Optimization
TPDP, 2019  [arxiv] 
Learning to Prune: Speeding up Repeated Computations
with Adam Tauman Kalai, Katrina Ligett, Cameron Musco, Christos Tzamos, and Ellen Vitercik
COLT, 2019  [arxiv]  [PMLR] 
Unleashing Linear Optimizers for Group-Fair Learning and Optimization
with Nicole Immorlica and Adam Tauman Kalai
COLT, 2018  [arxiv]  [PMLR] 
Learning Certifiably Optimal Rule Lists for Categorical Data
with Elaine Angelino, Nicholas Larus-Stone, Margo Seltzer, and Cynthia Rudin
JMLR, 2018  [arxiv]  [JMLR] 
Long Journal Version of KDD 2017, SysML 2018 papers with more analyses/results/experiments/proofs
Systems Optimizations for Learning Certifiably Optimal Rule Lists
with Elaine Angelino, Vassilios Kaxiras, Nicholas Larus-Stone, Aditya Saligrama, Margo Seltzer, and Cynthia Rudin
SysML, 2018  [pdf] 
Learning Certifiably Optimal Rule Lists
with Elaine Angelino, Nicholas Larus-Stone, Margo Seltzer, and Cynthia Rudin
KDD, 2017  [pdf] 
Selected for oral presentation
PFunk-H: Approximate Query Processing using Perceptual Models
with Eugene Wu
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Human-in-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA), 2016  [pdf] 
Poster at North East Database Day, January, 2016
Selected for full oral presentation at HILDA 2016
Exploiting visual perception for sampling-based approximation on aggregate queries
Columbia University Technical Report 1613, 2015
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