On Differentially Private Online Collaborative Recommendation Systems

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-30840-1_14zbMATH Open1384.94063arXiv1510.08546OpenAlexW1853701612MaRDI QIDQ2806773FDOQ2806773

Authors: Haifeng Yu, Xiao Liu, Seth Gilbert 

Publication date: 19 May 2016

Published in: Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2015 (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In collaborative recommendation systems, privacy may be compromised, as users' opinions are used to generate recommendations for others. In this paper, we consider an online collaborative recommendation system, and we measure users' privacy in terms of the standard differential privacy. We give the first quantitative analysis of the trade-offs between recommendation quality and users' privacy in such a system by showing a lower bound on the best achievable privacy for any non-trivial algorithm, and proposing a near-optimal algorithm. From our results, we find that there is actually little trade-off between recommendation quality and privacy for any non-trivial algorithm. Our results also identify the key parameters that determine the best achievable privacy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08546

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zbMATH Keywords

lower boundonline algorithmdifferential privacycollaborative recommendation system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Online algorithms; streaming algorithms (68W27) Cryptography (94A60)

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