A Joint Exponential Mechanism For Differentially Private Top-k

01/28/2022
by   Jennifer Gillenwater, et al.
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We present a differentially private algorithm for releasing the sequence of k elements with the highest counts from a data domain of d elements. The algorithm is a "joint" instance of the exponential mechanism, and its output space consists of all O(d^k) length-k sequences. Our main contribution is a method to sample this exponential mechanism in time O(dklog(k) + dlog(d)) and space O(dk). Experiments show that this approach outperforms existing pure differential privacy methods and improves upon even approximate differential privacy methods for moderate k.

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