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Private Stochastic Convex Optimization: Optimal Rates in L1 Geometry
Hilal Asi · Vitaly Feldman · Tomer Koren · Kunal Talwar

Thu Jul 22 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PDT) @ Virtual
in Poster Session 6 »
Stochastic convex optimization over an $\ell_1$-bounded domain is ubiquitous in machine learning applications such as LASSO but remains poorly understood when learning with differential privacy. We show that, up to logarithmic factors the optimal excess population loss of any $(\epsilon,\delta)$-differentially private optimizer is $\sqrt{\log(d)/n} + \sqrt{d}/\epsilon n.$ The upper bound is based on a new algorithm that combines the iterative localization approach of Feldman et al. (2020) with a new analysis of private regularized mirror descent. It applies to $\ell_p$ bounded domains for $p\in [1,2]$ and queries at most $n^{3/2}$ gradients improving over the best previously known algorithm for the $\ell_2$ case which needs $n^2$ gradients. Further, we show that when the loss functions satisfy additional smoothness assumptions, the excess loss is upper bounded (up to logarithmic factors) by $\sqrt{\log(d)/n} + (\log(d)/\epsilon n)^{2/3}.$ This bound is achieved by a new variance-reduced version of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm that requires just a single pass over the data. We also show that the lower bound in this case is the minimum of the two rates mentioned above.
Keywords: Deep Learning · Online Learning · Privacy, Anonymity, and Security · Algorithms -> Multitask and Transfer Learning; Algorithms · Social Aspects of Machine Learning
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Author Information

Hilal Asi (Stanford University)
Vitaly Feldman (Apple)
Tomer Koren (Tel Aviv University and Google)
Kunal Talwar (Apple)

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