Distributed Mean Estimation for Multi-Message Shuffled Privacy

Published: 19 Jun 2023, Last Modified: 21 Jul 2023FL-ICML 2023EveryoneRevisionsBibTeX
Keywords: Differential privacy, distributed mean estimation, shuffle model, federated learning
TL;DR: We propose communication-efficient and private mechanisms for distributed mean estimation in the shuffle model of differential privacy
Abstract: In this paper, we study distributed mean estimation (DME) under privacy and communication constraints in the multi-message shuffle model. We propose communication-efficient algorithms for privately estimating the mean of bound $\ell_2$-norm and $\ell_{\infty}$-norm norm vectors. Our algorithms are designed by giving unequal privacy at different resolutions of the vector (through binary expansion) and appropriately combining it with co-ordinate sampling. We show that our proposed algorithms achieve order-optimal privacy-communication-performance trade-offs.
Submission Number: 52
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