Practical Differentially Private Hyperparameter Tuning with Subsampling

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Main Authors: Koskela, Antti, Kulkarni, Tejas
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author Koskela, Antti
Kulkarni, Tejas
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Kulkarni, Tejas
contents Tuning the hyperparameters of differentially private (DP) machine learning (ML) algorithms often requires use of sensitive data and this may leak private information via hyperparameter values. Recently, Papernot and Steinke (2022) proposed a certain class of DP hyperparameter tuning algorithms, where the number of random search samples is randomized itself. Commonly, these algorithms still considerably increase the DP privacy parameter $\varepsilon$ over non-tuned DP ML model training and can be computationally heavy as evaluating each hyperparameter candidate requires a new training run. We focus on lowering both the DP bounds and the computational cost of these methods by using only a random subset of the sensitive data for the hyperparameter tuning and by extrapolating the optimal values to a larger dataset. We provide a Rényi differential privacy analysis for the proposed method and experimentally show that it consistently leads to better privacy-utility trade-off than the baseline method by Papernot and Steinke.
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spellingShingle Practical Differentially Private Hyperparameter Tuning with Subsampling
Koskela, Antti
Kulkarni, Tejas
Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
Tuning the hyperparameters of differentially private (DP) machine learning (ML) algorithms often requires use of sensitive data and this may leak private information via hyperparameter values. Recently, Papernot and Steinke (2022) proposed a certain class of DP hyperparameter tuning algorithms, where the number of random search samples is randomized itself. Commonly, these algorithms still considerably increase the DP privacy parameter $\varepsilon$ over non-tuned DP ML model training and can be computationally heavy as evaluating each hyperparameter candidate requires a new training run. We focus on lowering both the DP bounds and the computational cost of these methods by using only a random subset of the sensitive data for the hyperparameter tuning and by extrapolating the optimal values to a larger dataset. We provide a Rényi differential privacy analysis for the proposed method and experimentally show that it consistently leads to better privacy-utility trade-off than the baseline method by Papernot and Steinke.
title Practical Differentially Private Hyperparameter Tuning with Subsampling
topic Machine Learning
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11989