Differentially Private Pairwise Learning Revisited

Zhiyu Xue*, Shaoyang Yang, Mengdi Huai, Di Wang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Instead of learning with pointwise loss functions, learning with pairwise loss functions (pairwise learning) has received much attention recently as it is more capable of modeling the relative relationship between pairs of samples. However, most of the existing algorithms for pairwise learning fail to take into consideration the privacy issue in their design. To address this issue, previous work studied pairwise learning in the Differential Privacy (DP) model. However, their utilities (population errors) are far from optimal. To address the sub-optimal utility issue, in this paper, we proposed new pure or approximate DP algorithms for pairwise learning. Specifically, under the assumption that the loss functions are Lipschitz, our algorithms could achieve the optimal expected population risk for both strongly convex and general convex cases. We also conduct extensive experiments on real-world datasets to evaluate the proposed algorithms, experimental results support our theoretical analysis and show the priority of our algorithms.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
EditorsZhi-Hua Zhou
PublisherInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization
Pages3242-3248
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9780999241196
StatePublished - 2021
Event30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021 - Virtual, Online, Canada
Duration: Aug 19 2021Aug 27 2021

Publication series

NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
ISSN (Print)1045-0823

Conference

Conference30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVirtual, Online
Period08/19/2108/27/21

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

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