Differential privacy for symmetric log-concave mechanisms

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Main Author: Vinterbo, Staal A.
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Published: 2022
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contents Adding random noise to database query results is an important tool for achieving privacy. A challenge is to minimize this noise while still meeting privacy requirements. Recently, a sufficient and necessary condition for $(ε, δ)$-differential privacy for Gaussian noise was published. This condition allows the computation of the minimum privacy-preserving scale for this distribution. We extend this work and provide a sufficient and necessary condition for $(ε, δ)$-differential privacy for all symmetric and log-concave noise densities. Our results allow fine-grained tailoring of the noise distribution to the dimensionality of the query result. We demonstrate that this can yield significantly lower mean squared errors than those incurred by the currently used Laplace and Gaussian mechanisms for the same $ε$ and $δ$.
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spellingShingle Differential privacy for symmetric log-concave mechanisms
Vinterbo, Staal A.
Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
Adding random noise to database query results is an important tool for achieving privacy. A challenge is to minimize this noise while still meeting privacy requirements. Recently, a sufficient and necessary condition for $(ε, δ)$-differential privacy for Gaussian noise was published. This condition allows the computation of the minimum privacy-preserving scale for this distribution. We extend this work and provide a sufficient and necessary condition for $(ε, δ)$-differential privacy for all symmetric and log-concave noise densities. Our results allow fine-grained tailoring of the noise distribution to the dimensionality of the query result. We demonstrate that this can yield significantly lower mean squared errors than those incurred by the currently used Laplace and Gaussian mechanisms for the same $ε$ and $δ$.
title Differential privacy for symmetric log-concave mechanisms
topic Cryptography and Security
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11393