Shapley-Value-Based Feature Attribution for Data Masking

arXiv:2607.28946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite its many benefits, widespread access to individuals' personal data also causes severe privacy concerns for consumers, companies, and policymakers. This study proposes a novel framework that adapts the Shapley-value-based feature attribution approach to the problem domain of data privacy by capturing the two crucial dimensions of data privacy---disclosure risk and data utility. Our proposed framework takes a holistic view of data masking thr...