Between Pure and Approximate Differential Privacy

We show a new lower bound on the sample complexity of (ε,δ)-differentially private algorithms that accurately answer statistical queries on high-dimensional databases. The novelty of our bound is that it depends optimally on the parameter δ, which loosely corresponds to the probability that the algo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Thomas Steinke, Jonathan Ullman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Labor Dynamics Institute 2017-01-01
Series:The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
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Online Access:https://journalprivacyconfidentiality.org/index.php/jpc/article/view/648