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Separating Local & Shuffled Differential Privacy via Histograms

Authors Victor Balcer, Albert Cheu

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  • Security and privacy → Privacy-preserving protocols
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  • Differential Privacy
  • Distributed Protocols
  • Histograms

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Abstract

Recent work in differential privacy has highlighted the shuffled model as a promising avenue to compute accurate statistics while keeping raw data in users' hands. We present a protocol in this model that estimates histograms with error independent of the domain size. This implies an arbitrarily large gap in sample complexity between the shuffled and local models. On the other hand, we show that the models are equivalent when we impose the constraints of pure differential privacy and single-message randomizers.

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Victor Balcer and Albert Cheu. Separating Local & Shuffled Differential Privacy via Histograms. In 1st Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 163, pp. 1:1-1:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2020.1

Author Details

Victor Balcer
  • School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Albert Cheu
  • Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States

Funding

  • Balcer, Victor: Supported by NSF grant CNS-1565387.
  • Cheu, Albert: Supported by NSF grants CCF-1718088, CCF-1750640, and CNS-1816028.

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Daniel Alabi and Maxim Zhilyaev for discussions that shaped the early stages of this work. We are also indebted to Matthew Joseph and Jieming Mao for directing us to the pointer-chasing and multi-party pointer-jumping problems. Finally, we thank Salil Vadhan for editorial comments and providing a simpler construction for Claim 19.

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