The Price of Online Queries in Differential Privacy

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• Mark Bun (Princeton University)
• Thursday 08 December 2016, 12:00-12:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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DLAW03 - New developments in data privacy

Co-authors: Thomas Steinke (IBM Research – Almaden), Jonathan Ullman (Northeastern University)
 
We consider the problem of answering queries about a sensitive dataset subject to differential privacy. The queries may be chosen adversarially from a larger set of allowable queries via one of three interactive models. These models capture whether the queries are given to the mechanism all in a single batch (“offline”), whether they are chosen in advance but presented to the mechanism one at a time (“online”), or whether they may be chosen by an analyst adaptively (“adaptive”).
 
Many differentially private mechanisms are just as efficient in the adaptive model as they are in the offline model. Meanwhile, most lower bounds for differential privacy hold in the offline setting. This suggests that the three models might be equivalent.
 
We prove that these models are all, in fact, distinct. Specifically, we show that there is a family of statistical queries such that exponentially more queries from this family can be answered in the offline model than in the online model. We also exhibit a family of search queries such that many more queries from this family can be answered in the online model than in the adaptive model. We also investigate whether such separations might hold for simple queries, such as threshold queries over the real line.
 
Joint work with Thomas Steinke and Jonathan Ullman.

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• https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04618 – Full version of manuscript

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