Joint Selection: Adaptively Incorporating Public Information for Private Synthetic Data

Mechanisms for generating differentially private synthetic data based on marginals and graphical models have been successful in a wide range of settings. However, one limitation of these methods is their inability to incorporate public data. Initializing a data generating model by pre-training on pu...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2024-03
Main Authors: Fuentes, Miguel, Mullins, Brett, McKenna, Ryan, Miklau, Gerome, Sheldon, Daniel
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Language:English
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Synthetic data
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Summary:Mechanisms for generating differentially private synthetic data based on marginals and graphical models have been successful in a wide range of settings. However, one limitation of these methods is their inability to incorporate public data. Initializing a data generating model by pre-training on public data has shown to improve the quality of synthetic data, but this technique is not applicable when model structure is not determined a priori. We develop the mechanism jam-pgm, which expands the adaptive measurements framework to jointly select between measuring public data and private data. This technique allows for public data to be included in a graphical-model-based mechanism. We show that jam-pgm is able to outperform both publicly assisted and non publicly assisted synthetic data generation mechanisms even when the public data distribution is biased.
ISSN:2331-8422