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Poster
Locally Private k-Means in One Round
Alisa Chang · Badih Ghazi · Ravi Kumar · Pasin Manurangsi

Thu Jul 22 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PDT) @ Virtual

We provide an approximation algorithm for k-means clustering in the \emph{one-round} (aka \emph{non-interactive}) local model of differential privacy (DP). Our algorithm achieves an approximation ratio arbitrarily close to the best \emph{non private} approximation algorithm, improving upon previously known algorithms that only guarantee large (constant) approximation ratios. Furthermore, ours is the first constant-factor approximation algorithm for k-means that requires only \emph{one} round of communication in the local DP model, positively resolving an open question of Stemmer (SODA 2020). Our algorithmic framework is quite flexible; we demonstrate this by showing that it also yields a similar near-optimal approximation algorithm in the (one-round) shuffle DP model.

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Alisa Chang (Google)
Badih Ghazi (Google)
Ravi Kumar (Google)
Pasin Manurangsi (Google Research)

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