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This paper considers the problem of releasing optimal power flow benchmarks that maintain the privacy of customers (loads) using the notion of Differential Privacy. It is motivated by the observation that traditional differential-privacy mechanisms are not accurate enough: The added noise fundamentally changes the nature of the underlying optimization and often leads to test cases with no solution. To remedy this limitation, the paper introduces the framework of Constraint-Based Differential Privacy (CBDP) that leverages the post- processing immunity of differential privacy to improve the accuracy of traditional mechanisms. More precisely, CBDP solves an optimization problem to satisfies the problem-specific constraints by redistributing the noise. The paper shows that CBDP enjoys desirable theoretical properties and produces orders of magnitude improvements on the largest set of test cases available.
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The experimental settings are reported in all details in Sect. 7.
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The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This research is partly funded by the ARPA-E Grid Data Program under Grant 1357-1530. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors only.
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Fioretto, F., Van Hentenryck, P. (2018). Constrained-Based Differential Privacy: Releasing Optimal Power Flow Benchmarks Privately. In: van Hoeve, WJ. (eds) Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research. CPAIOR 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10848. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93031-2_15
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