Optimal locally private estimation under ℓ_p loss for 1< p< 2

10/16/2018
by   Min Ye, et al.
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We consider the minimax estimation problem of a discrete distribution with support size k under locally differential privacy constraints. A privatization scheme is applied to each raw sample independently, and we need to estimate the distribution of the raw samples from the privatized samples. A positive number ϵ measures the privacy level of a privatization scheme. In our previous work (IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, 2018), we proposed a family of new privatization schemes and the corresponding estimator. We also proved that our scheme and estimator are order optimal in the regime e^ϵ≪ k under both ℓ_2^2 (mean square) and ℓ_1 loss. In this paper, we sharpen this result by showing asymptotic optimality of the proposed scheme under the ℓ_p^p loss for all 1< p< 2. More precisely, we show that for any p∈[1,2] and any k and ϵ, the ratio between the worst-case ℓ_p^p estimation loss of our scheme and the optimal value approaches 1 as the number of samples tends to infinity. The lower bound on the minimax risk of private estimation that we establish as a part of the proof is valid for any loss function ℓ_p^p, p> 1.

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