Private Lossless Multiple Release

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Main Authors: Andersson, Joel Daniel, Retschmeier, Lukas, Nelson, Boel, Pagh, Rasmus
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Published: 2025
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author Andersson, Joel Daniel
Retschmeier, Lukas
Nelson, Boel
Pagh, Rasmus
author_facet Andersson, Joel Daniel
Retschmeier, Lukas
Nelson, Boel
Pagh, Rasmus
contents Koufogiannis et al. (2016) showed a $\textit{gradual release}$ result for Laplace noise-based differentially private mechanisms: given an $\varepsilon$-DP release, a new release with privacy parameter $\varepsilon' > \varepsilon$ can be computed such that the combined privacy loss of both releases is at most $\varepsilon'$ and the distribution of the latter is the same as a single release with parameter $\varepsilon'$. They also showed gradual release techniques for Gaussian noise, later also explored by Whitehouse et al. (2022). In this paper, we consider a more general $\textit{multiple release}$ setting in which analysts hold private releases with different privacy parameters corresponding to different access/trust levels. These releases are determined one by one, with privacy parameters in arbitrary order. A multiple release is $\textit{lossless}$ if having access to a subset $S$ of the releases has the same privacy guarantee as the least private release in $S$, and each release has the same distribution as a single release with the same privacy parameter. Our main result is that lossless multiple release is possible for a large class of additive noise mechanisms. For the Gaussian mechanism we give a simple method for lossless multiple release with a short, self-contained analysis that does not require knowledge of the mathematics of Brownian motion. We also present lossless multiple release for the Laplace and Poisson mechanisms. Finally, we consider how to efficiently do gradual release of sparse histograms, and present a mechanism with running time independent of the number of dimensions.
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Andersson, Joel Daniel
Retschmeier, Lukas
Nelson, Boel
Pagh, Rasmus
Cryptography and Security
Data Structures and Algorithms
Koufogiannis et al. (2016) showed a $\textit{gradual release}$ result for Laplace noise-based differentially private mechanisms: given an $\varepsilon$-DP release, a new release with privacy parameter $\varepsilon' > \varepsilon$ can be computed such that the combined privacy loss of both releases is at most $\varepsilon'$ and the distribution of the latter is the same as a single release with parameter $\varepsilon'$. They also showed gradual release techniques for Gaussian noise, later also explored by Whitehouse et al. (2022). In this paper, we consider a more general $\textit{multiple release}$ setting in which analysts hold private releases with different privacy parameters corresponding to different access/trust levels. These releases are determined one by one, with privacy parameters in arbitrary order. A multiple release is $\textit{lossless}$ if having access to a subset $S$ of the releases has the same privacy guarantee as the least private release in $S$, and each release has the same distribution as a single release with the same privacy parameter. Our main result is that lossless multiple release is possible for a large class of additive noise mechanisms. For the Gaussian mechanism we give a simple method for lossless multiple release with a short, self-contained analysis that does not require knowledge of the mathematics of Brownian motion. We also present lossless multiple release for the Laplace and Poisson mechanisms. Finally, we consider how to efficiently do gradual release of sparse histograms, and present a mechanism with running time independent of the number of dimensions.
title Private Lossless Multiple Release
topic Cryptography and Security
Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22449