Faster Privacy Accounting via Evolving Discretization
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04381v1
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 04:25:37 GMT
- Title: Faster Privacy Accounting via Evolving Discretization
- Authors: Badih Ghazi and Pritish Kamath and Ravi Kumar and Pasin Manurangsi
- Abstract summary: We introduce a new algorithm for numerical composition of privacy random variables.
Our algorithm achieves a running time and memory usage of $mathrmpolylog(k)$ for the task of self-composing a mechanism.
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- Abstract: We introduce a new algorithm for numerical composition of privacy random
variables, useful for computing the accurate differential privacy parameters
for composition of mechanisms. Our algorithm achieves a running time and memory
usage of $\mathrm{polylog}(k)$ for the task of self-composing a mechanism, from
a broad class of mechanisms, $k$ times; this class, e.g., includes the
sub-sampled Gaussian mechanism, that appears in the analysis of differentially
private stochastic gradient descent. By comparison, recent work by Gopi et al.
(NeurIPS 2021) has obtained a running time of $\widetilde{O}(\sqrt{k})$ for the
same task. Our approach extends to the case of composing $k$ different
mechanisms in the same class, improving upon their running time and memory
usage from $\widetilde{O}(k^{1.5})$ to $\widetilde{O}(k)$.
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