VALORIS: A privacy-aware logistic regression method for vertically partitioned data within a novel privacy risk assessment framework
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Life sciences research increasingly relies on variables held by different entities, such as clinical, laboratory, environmental, and genomic data. Due to legal, ethical, and social acceptability constraints, these data often cannot be shared across organizations holding them. As a result, they cannot be pooled, and analyses must be conducted within the framework of vertically partitioned data. Supporting such analyses requires methods that protect privacy. However, the mere fact that line-level data are not exchanged should not be mistaken for true privacy protection. We introduce VALORIS (Vertically partitioned Analytics under the LOgistic Regression model for Inference in Statistics), a novel method that enables statistical inference under a logistic regression model without disclosing any individual-level data—including the outcome variable. VALORIS is a practical, communication-efficient algorithm that requires no third-party coordinator. Most importantly, it includes a novel framework for evaluating privacy, allowing users to distinguish among different levels of privacy preservation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.107 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".