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Dual Query: Practical Private Query Release for High Dimensional Data

Data Structures and Algorithms 2018-03-16 v2 Cryptography and Security Databases Machine Learning

Abstract

We present a practical, differentially private algorithm for answering a large number of queries on high dimensional datasets. Like all algorithms for this task, ours necessarily has worst-case complexity exponential in the dimension of the data. However, our algorithm packages the computationally hard step into a concisely defined integer program, which can be solved non-privately using standard solvers. We prove accuracy and privacy theorems for our algorithm, and then demonstrate experimentally that our algorithm performs well in practice. For example, our algorithm can efficiently and accurately answer millions of queries on the Netflix dataset, which has over 17,000 attributes; this is an improvement on the state of the art by multiple orders of magnitude.

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@article{arxiv.1402.1526,
  title  = {Dual Query: Practical Private Query Release for High Dimensional Data},
  author = {Marco Gaboardi and Emilio Jesús Gallego Arias and Justin Hsu and Aaron Roth and Zhiwei Steven Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1526},
  year   = {2018}
}
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