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Privately Publishable Per-instance Privacy

Cryptography and Security 2021-11-05 v1 Machine Learning Machine Learning

Abstract

We consider how to privately share the personalized privacy losses incurred by objective perturbation, using per-instance differential privacy (pDP). Standard differential privacy (DP) gives us a worst-case bound that might be orders of magnitude larger than the privacy loss to a particular individual relative to a fixed dataset. The pDP framework provides a more fine-grained analysis of the privacy guarantee to a target individual, but the per-instance privacy loss itself might be a function of sensitive data. In this paper, we analyze the per-instance privacy loss of releasing a private empirical risk minimizer learned via objective perturbation, and propose a group of methods to privately and accurately publish the pDP losses at little to no additional privacy cost.

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@article{arxiv.2111.02281,
  title  = {Privately Publishable Per-instance Privacy},
  author = {Rachel Redberg and Yu-Xiang Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.02281},
  year   = {2021}
}

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To appear at NeurIPS 2021

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