
arXiv: 2203.00263
In this paper, we study private optimization problems for non-smooth convex functions $F(x)=\mathbb{E}_i f_i(x)$ on $\mathbb{R}^d$.We show that modifying the exponential mechanism by adding an $\ell_2^2$ regularizer to $F(x)$ and sampling from $\pi(x)\propto \exp(-k(F(x)+\mu\|x\|_2^2/2))$ recovers both the known optimal empirical risk and population loss under $(\eps,\delta)$-DP. Furthermore, we show how to implement this mechanism using $\widetilde{O}(n \min(d, n))$ queries to $f_i(x)$ for the DP-SCO where $n$ is the number of samples/users and $d$ is the ambient dimension.We also give a (nearly) matching lower bound $\widetilde{\Omega}(n \min(d, n))$ on the number of evaluation queries. Our results utilize the following tools that are of independent interest:\begin{itemize}\item We prove Gaussian Differential Privacy (GDP) of the exponential mechanism if the loss function is strongly convex and the perturbation is Lipschitz. Our privacy bound is \emph{optimal} as it includes the privacy of Gaussian mechanism as a special case and is proved using the isoperimetric inequality for strongly log-concave measures.\item We show how to sample from $\exp(-F(x)-\mu \|x\|^2_2/2)$ for $G$-Lipschitz $F$ with $\eta$ error in total variation (TV) distance using $\widetilde{O}((G^2/\mu) \log^2(d/\eta))$ unbiased queries to $F(x)$. This is the first sampler whose query complexity has \emph{polylogarithmic dependence} on both dimension $d$ and accuracy $\eta$.\end{itemize}
FOS: Computer and information sciences, sampling, Technology, Computer Science - Machine Learning, convex optimization, Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, T, Probability (math.PR), Social Sciences, Machine Learning (cs.LG), H, Exponential Mechanism, Optimization and Control (math.OC), differential privacy, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, FOS: Mathematics, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), Mathematics - Optimization and Control, Cryptography and Security (cs.CR), Mathematics - Probability
FOS: Computer and information sciences, sampling, Technology, Computer Science - Machine Learning, convex optimization, Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, T, Probability (math.PR), Social Sciences, Machine Learning (cs.LG), H, Exponential Mechanism, Optimization and Control (math.OC), differential privacy, Computer Science - Data Structures and Algorithms, FOS: Mathematics, Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS), Mathematics - Optimization and Control, Cryptography and Security (cs.CR), Mathematics - Probability
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