提出新隐私框架AHDP,解决数据与隐私需求相关时的保护失效问题。
Managing Correlations in Data and Privacy Demand
- 构建新框架AHDP,同时考虑用户数据与隐私偏好关联
- 在均值、频率等任务中实现有效隐私保护,无需事先知道相关性
- 方法简单易用,适合真实场景部署
以往允许用户自主选择隐私水平的工作通常基于异构差分隐私(HDP)框架,并假设用户数据与隐私需求无关。本文首先指出,在数据与隐私需求存在相关性时,标准HDP框架会失效。为此,提出一种新框架——增删式异构差分隐私(AHDP),能联合建模用户数据与隐私偏好,对二者可能的相关性具有鲁棒性。进一步从假设检验视角形式化了AHDP的保障,该视角对分析其他隐私框架亦具参考价值。研究发现,存在非平凡的AHDP机制,即使未知数据-隐私相关性也能运作。我们设计并应用于均值估计、频率估计和线性回归等核心统计任务,机制实现简单、假设少,适合实际应用。最后通过大语言模型生成的合成数据集进行实证评估,揭示其权衡特性,并公开数据集以支持后续研究。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Previous works in the differential privacy literature that allow users to choose their privacy levels typically operate under the heterogeneous differential privacy (HDP) framework with the simplifying assumption that user data and privacy levels are not correlated. Firstly, we demonstrate that the standard HDP framework falls short when user data and privacy demands are allowed to be correlated. Secondly, to address this shortcoming, we propose an alternate framework, Add-remove Heterogeneous Differential Privacy (AHDP), that jointly accounts for user data and privacy preference. We show that AHDP is robust to possible correlations between data and privacy. Thirdly, we formalize the guarantees of the proposed AHDP framework through an operational hypothesis testing perspective. The hypothesis testing setup may be of independent interest in analyzing other privacy frameworks as well. Fourthly, we show that there exists non-trivial AHDP mechanisms that notably do not require prior knowledge of the data-privacy correlations. We propose some such mechanisms and apply them to core statistical tasks such as mean estimation, frequency estimation, and linear regression. The proposed mechanisms are simple to implement with minimal assumptions and modeling requirements, making them attractive for real-world use. Finally, we empirically evaluate proposed AHDP mechanisms, highlighting their trade-offs using LLM-generated synthetic datasets, which we release for future research.
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