On Differentially Private Sampling from Gaussian and Product Distributions

Published: 21 Sept 2023, Last Modified: 02 Nov 2023NeurIPS 2023 posterEveryoneRevisionsBibTeX
Keywords: privacy, sampling, Gaussian distribution, product distributions
TL;DR: Private sampling algorithms for multi-dimensional Gaussian distributions and product distributions
Abstract: We study the problem, where given a dataset of $n$ i.i.d. samples from an unknown distribution $P$, we seek to generate a sample from a distribution that is close to $P$ in total variation distance, under the constraint of differential privacy. We study the settings where $P$ is a multi-dimensional Gaussian distribution with different assumptions: known covariance, unknown bounded covariance, and unknown unbounded covariance. We present new differentially private sampling algorithms, and show that they achieve near-optimal sample complexity in the first two settings. Moreover, when $P$ is a product distribution on the binary hypercube, we obtain a pure-DP algorithm whereas only an approximate-DP algorithm (with slightly worse sample complexity) was previously known.
Submission Number: 5873
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