Automatic discovery of privacy-utility pareto fronts
arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.10862, 2019•arxiv.org
Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for privacy-preserving data analysis.
Changing the hyperparameters of a differentially private algorithm allows one to trade off
privacy and utility in a principled way. Quantifying this trade-off in advance is essential to
decision-makers tasked with deciding how much privacy can be provided in a particular
application while maintaining acceptable utility. Analytical utility guarantees offer a rigorous
tool to reason about this trade-off, but are generally only available for relatively simple …
Changing the hyperparameters of a differentially private algorithm allows one to trade off
privacy and utility in a principled way. Quantifying this trade-off in advance is essential to
decision-makers tasked with deciding how much privacy can be provided in a particular
application while maintaining acceptable utility. Analytical utility guarantees offer a rigorous
tool to reason about this trade-off, but are generally only available for relatively simple …
Differential privacy is a mathematical framework for privacy-preserving data analysis. Changing the hyperparameters of a differentially private algorithm allows one to trade off privacy and utility in a principled way. Quantifying this trade-off in advance is essential to decision-makers tasked with deciding how much privacy can be provided in a particular application while maintaining acceptable utility. Analytical utility guarantees offer a rigorous tool to reason about this trade-off, but are generally only available for relatively simple problems. For more complex tasks, such as training neural networks under differential privacy, the utility achieved by a given algorithm can only be measured empirically. This paper presents a Bayesian optimization methodology for efficiently characterizing the privacy--utility trade-off of any differentially private algorithm using only empirical measurements of its utility. The versatility of our method is illustrated on a number of machine learning tasks involving multiple models, optimizers, and datasets.
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