Private Means and the Curious Incident of the Free Lunch

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Hauptverfasser: Fitzsimons, Jack, Honaker, James, Shoemate, Michael, Singhal, Vikrant
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Fitzsimons, Jack
Honaker, James
Shoemate, Michael
Singhal, Vikrant
author_facet Fitzsimons, Jack
Honaker, James
Shoemate, Michael
Singhal, Vikrant
contents We show that the most well-known and fundamental building blocks of DP implementations -- sum, mean, count (and many other linear queries) -- can be released with substantially reduced noise for the same privacy guarantee. We achieve this by projecting individual data with worst-case sensitivity $R$ onto a simplex where all data now has a constant norm $R$. In this simplex, additional ``free'' queries can be run that are already covered by the privacy-loss of the original budgeted query, and which algebraically give additional estimates of counts or sums.
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spellingShingle Private Means and the Curious Incident of the Free Lunch
Fitzsimons, Jack
Honaker, James
Shoemate, Michael
Singhal, Vikrant
Cryptography and Security
We show that the most well-known and fundamental building blocks of DP implementations -- sum, mean, count (and many other linear queries) -- can be released with substantially reduced noise for the same privacy guarantee. We achieve this by projecting individual data with worst-case sensitivity $R$ onto a simplex where all data now has a constant norm $R$. In this simplex, additional ``free'' queries can be run that are already covered by the privacy-loss of the original budgeted query, and which algebraically give additional estimates of counts or sums.
title Private Means and the Curious Incident of the Free Lunch
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10438