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Paper IDP.3.5
Paper Title Privacy Amplification of Iterative Algorithms via Contraction Coefficients
Authors Shahab Asoodeh, Harvard University, United States; Mario Diaz, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico; Flavio P. Calmon, Harvard University, United States
Session P.3: Information Privacy I
Presentation Lecture
Track Cryptography, Security and Privacy
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Abstract We investigate the framework of privacy amplification by iteration, recently proposed by Feldman et al., from an information-theoretic lens. We demonstrate that differential privacy guarantees of iterative mappings can be determined by a direct application of contraction coefficients derived from strong data processing inequalities for f-divergences. In particular, by generalizing the Dobrushin's contraction coefficient for total variation distance to an f-divergence known as E_\gamma-divergence, we derive tighter bounds on the differential privacy parameters of the projected noisy stochastic gradient descent algorithm with hidden intermediate updates.

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2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory

11-16 July 2021 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

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