Simultaneous Private Learning of Multiple Concepts
Simultaneous Private Learning of Multiple Concepts
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同时私人学习多个概念
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2015
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Uri Stemmer
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Mark Bun;Kobbi Nissim;Uri Stemmer
We investigate the {em direct-sum} problem in the context of differentially private PAC learning: What is the sample complexity of solving k learning tasks simultaneously under differential privacy, and how does this cost compare to that of solving k learning tasks without privacy? In our setting, an individual example consists of a domain element x labeled by k unknown concepts (c1,...,ck). The goal of a multi-learner is to output k hypotheses (h1,...,hk) that generalize the input examples. Without concern for privacy, the sample complexity needed to simultaneously learn $k$ concepts is essentially the same as needed for learning a single concept. Under differential privacy, the basic strategy of learning each hypothesis independently yields sample complexity that grows polynomially with k. For some concept classes, we give multi-learners that require fewer samples than the basic strategy. Unfortunately, however, we also give lower bounds showing that even for very simple concept classes, the sample cost of private multi-learning must grow polynomially in k.