Jan Ramon

Accurate, private, secure, federated U-statistics with higher degree

We study the problem of computing a U-statistic with a kernel function $f$ of degree $k \geq 2$, i.e., the average of some function $f$ over all $k$-tuples of instances, in a federated learning setting. U-statistics of degree $2$ include several useful statistics such as Kendall's $\tau$ coefficient…