Post-processing Private Synthetic Data for Improving Utility on Selected Measures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15538v2
• Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 00:55:40 GMT
• Title: Post-processing Private Synthetic Data for Improving Utility on Selected Measures
• Authors: Hao Wang, Shivchander Sudalairaj, John Henning, Kristjan Greenewald, Akash Srivastava
• Abstract summary: We introduce a post-processing technique that improves the utility of the synthetic data with respect to measures selected by the end user. Our approach consistently improves the utility of synthetic data across multiple benchmark datasets and state-of-the-art synthetic data generation algorithms.
• Score: 7.371282202708775
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Existing private synthetic data generation algorithms are agnostic to downstream tasks. However, end users may have specific requirements that the synthetic data must satisfy. Failure to meet these requirements could significantly reduce the utility of the data for downstream use. We introduce a post-processing technique that improves the utility of the synthetic data with respect to measures selected by the end user, while preserving strong privacy guarantees and dataset quality. Our technique involves resampling from the synthetic data to filter out samples that do not meet the selected utility measures, using an efficient stochastic first-order algorithm to find optimal resampling weights. Through comprehensive numerical experiments, we demonstrate that our approach consistently improves the utility of synthetic data across multiple benchmark datasets and state-of-the-art synthetic data generation algorithms.

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