Optimal Private Median Estimation under Minimal Distributional Assumptions
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arXiv2011.06202MaRDI QIDQ6353576FDOQ6353576
Authors: Christos Tzamos, Emmanouil-Vasileios Vlatakis-Gkaragkounis, Ilias Zadik 
Publication date: 11 November 2020
Abstract: We study the fundamental task of estimating the median of an underlying distribution from a finite number of samples, under pure differential privacy constraints. We focus on distributions satisfying the minimal assumption that they have a positive density at a small neighborhood around the median. In particular, the distribution is allowed to output unbounded values and is not required to have finite moments. We compute the exact, up-to-constant terms, statistical rate of estimation for the median by providing nearly-tight upper and lower bounds. Furthermore, we design a polynomial-time differentially private algorithm which provably achieves the optimal performance. At a technical level, our results leverage a Lipschitz Extension Lemma which allows us to design and analyze differentially private algorithms solely on appropriately defined "typical" instances of the samples.
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