Search Results for author: Wei-Ning Chen

Found 8 papers, 0 papers with code

Improved Communication-Privacy Trade-offs in $L_2$ Mean Estimation under Streaming Differential Privacy

no code implementations2 May 2024 Wei-Ning Chen, Berivan Isik, Peter Kairouz, Albert No, Sewoong Oh, Zheng Xu

We study $L_2$ mean estimation under central differential privacy and communication constraints, and address two key challenges: firstly, existing mean estimation schemes that simultaneously handle both constraints are usually optimized for $L_\infty$ geometry and rely on random rotation or Kashin's representation to adapt to $L_2$ geometry, resulting in suboptimal leading constants in mean square errors (MSEs); secondly, schemes achieving order-optimal communication-privacy trade-offs do not extend seamlessly to streaming differential privacy (DP) settings (e. g., tree aggregation or matrix factorization), rendering them incompatible with DP-FTRL type optimizers.

Training generative models from privatized data

no code implementations15 Jun 2023 Daria Reshetova, Wei-Ning Chen, Ayfer Özgür

Local differential privacy is a powerful method for privacy-preserving data collection.

Privacy Preserving

The Poisson binomial mechanism for secure and private federated learning

no code implementations9 Jul 2022 Wei-Ning Chen, Ayfer Özgür, Peter Kairouz

Unlike previous discrete DP schemes based on additive noise, our mechanism encodes local information into a parameter of the binomial distribution, and hence the output distribution is discrete with bounded support.

Federated Learning

The Fundamental Price of Secure Aggregation in Differentially Private Federated Learning

no code implementations7 Mar 2022 Wei-Ning Chen, Christopher A. Choquette-Choo, Peter Kairouz, Ananda Theertha Suresh

We consider the problem of training a $d$ dimensional model with distributed differential privacy (DP) where secure aggregation (SecAgg) is used to ensure that the server only sees the noisy sum of $n$ model updates in every training round.

Federated Learning

Optimal Compression of Locally Differentially Private Mechanisms

no code implementations29 Oct 2021 Abhin Shah, Wei-Ning Chen, Johannes Balle, Peter Kairouz, Lucas Theis

Compressing the output of \epsilon-locally differentially private (LDP) randomizers naively leads to suboptimal utility.

Breaking The Dimension Dependence in Sparse Distribution Estimation under Communication Constraints

no code implementations16 Jun 2021 Wei-Ning Chen, Peter Kairouz, Ayfer Özgür

For the interactive setting, we propose a novel tree-based estimation scheme and show that the minimum sample-size needed to achieve dimension-free convergence can be further reduced to $n^*(s, d, b) = \tilde{O}\left( {s^2\log^2 d}/{2^b} \right)$.

Breaking the Communication-Privacy-Accuracy Trilemma

no code implementations NeurIPS 2020 Wei-Ning Chen, Peter Kairouz, Ayfer Özgür

In particular, we consider the problems of mean estimation and frequency estimation under $\varepsilon$-local differential privacy and $b$-bit communication constraints.

Fisher information under local differential privacy

no code implementations21 May 2020 Leighton Pate Barnes, Wei-Ning Chen, Ayfer Ozgur

We develop data processing inequalities that describe how Fisher information from statistical samples can scale with the privacy parameter $\varepsilon$ under local differential privacy constraints.

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