FLIPHAT: Joint Differential Privacy for High Dimensional Sparse Linear Bandits

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Main Authors: Chakraborty, Sunrit, Roy, Saptarshi, Basu, Debabrota
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author Chakraborty, Sunrit
Roy, Saptarshi
Basu, Debabrota
author_facet Chakraborty, Sunrit
Roy, Saptarshi
Basu, Debabrota
contents High dimensional sparse linear bandits serve as an efficient model for sequential decision-making problems (e.g. personalized medicine), where high dimensional features (e.g. genomic data) on the users are available, but only a small subset of them are relevant. Motivated by data privacy concerns in these applications, we study the joint differentially private high dimensional sparse linear bandits, where both rewards and contexts are considered as private data. First, to quantify the cost of privacy, we derive a lower bound on the regret achievable in this setting. To further address the problem, we design a computationally efficient bandit algorithm, \textbf{F}orgetfu\textbf{L} \textbf{I}terative \textbf{P}rivate \textbf{HA}rd \textbf{T}hresholding (FLIPHAT). Along with doubling of episodes and episodic forgetting, FLIPHAT deploys a variant of Noisy Iterative Hard Thresholding (N-IHT) algorithm as a sparse linear regression oracle to ensure both privacy and regret-optimality. We show that FLIPHAT achieves optimal regret in terms of privacy parameters $ε, δ$, context dimension $d$, and time horizon $T$ up to a linear factor in model sparsity and logarithmic factor in $d$. We analyze the regret by providing a novel refined analysis of the estimation error of N-IHT, which is of parallel interest.
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spellingShingle FLIPHAT: Joint Differential Privacy for High Dimensional Sparse Linear Bandits
Chakraborty, Sunrit
Roy, Saptarshi
Basu, Debabrota
Machine Learning
Statistics Theory
High dimensional sparse linear bandits serve as an efficient model for sequential decision-making problems (e.g. personalized medicine), where high dimensional features (e.g. genomic data) on the users are available, but only a small subset of them are relevant. Motivated by data privacy concerns in these applications, we study the joint differentially private high dimensional sparse linear bandits, where both rewards and contexts are considered as private data. First, to quantify the cost of privacy, we derive a lower bound on the regret achievable in this setting. To further address the problem, we design a computationally efficient bandit algorithm, \textbf{F}orgetfu\textbf{L} \textbf{I}terative \textbf{P}rivate \textbf{HA}rd \textbf{T}hresholding (FLIPHAT). Along with doubling of episodes and episodic forgetting, FLIPHAT deploys a variant of Noisy Iterative Hard Thresholding (N-IHT) algorithm as a sparse linear regression oracle to ensure both privacy and regret-optimality. We show that FLIPHAT achieves optimal regret in terms of privacy parameters $ε, δ$, context dimension $d$, and time horizon $T$ up to a linear factor in model sparsity and logarithmic factor in $d$. We analyze the regret by providing a novel refined analysis of the estimation error of N-IHT, which is of parallel interest.
title FLIPHAT: Joint Differential Privacy for High Dimensional Sparse Linear Bandits
topic Machine Learning
Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14038