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Poster
Leveraging Public Data for Practical Private Query Release
Terrance Liu · Giuseppe Vietri · Thomas Steinke · Jonathan Ullman · Steven Wu

Thu Jul 22 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PDT) @
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In many statistical problems, incorporating priors can significantly improve performance. However, the use of prior knowledge in differentially private query release has remained underexplored, despite such priors commonly being available in the form of public datasets, such as previous US Census releases. With the goal of releasing statistics about a private dataset, we present PMW^Pub, which---unlike existing baselines---leverages public data drawn from a related distribution as prior information. We provide a theoretical analysis and an empirical evaluation on the American Community Survey (ACS) and ADULT datasets, which shows that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, PMW^Pub scales well to high-dimensional data domains, where running many existing methods would be computationally infeasible.

Keywords: Privacy, Anonymity, and Security · Social Aspects of Machine Learning

Author Information

Terrance Liu (Carnegie Mellon University)
Giuseppe Vietri (University of Minnesota)
Thomas Steinke (Google)
Jonathan Ullman (Northeastern University)
Steven Wu (Carnegie Mellon University)

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