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arXiv 提交日期: 2026-01-27
📄 Abstract - Analysis of Shuffling Beyond Pure Local Differential Privacy

Shuffling is a powerful way to amplify privacy of a local randomizer in private distributed data analysis, but existing analyses mostly treat the local differential privacy (DP) parameter $\varepsilon_0$ as the only knob and give generic upper bounds that can be loose and do not even characterize how shuffling amplifies privacy for basic mechanisms such as the Gaussian mechanism. We revisit the privacy blanket bound of Balle et al. (the blanket divergence) and develop an asymptotic analysis that applies to a broad class of local randomizers under mild regularity assumptions, without requiring pure local DP. Our key finding is that the leading term of the blanket divergence depends on the local mechanism only through a single scalar parameter $\chi$, which we call the shuffle index. By applying this asymptotic analysis to both upper and lower bounds, we obtain a tight band for $\delta_n$ in the shuffled mechanism's $(\varepsilon_n,\delta_n)$-DP guarantee. Moreover, we derive a simple structural necessary and sufficient condition on the local randomizer under which the blanket-divergence-based upper and lower bounds coincide asymptotically. $k$-RR families with $k\ge3$ satisfy this condition, while for generalized Gaussian mechanisms the condition may not hold but the resulting band remains tight. Finally, we complement the asymptotic theory with an FFT-based algorithm for computing the blanket divergence at finite $n$, which offers rigorously controlled relative error and near-linear running time in $n$, providing a practical numerical analysis for shuffle DP.

顶级标签: theory machine learning systems
详细标签: differential privacy shuffling privacy amplification asymptotic analysis privacy blanket bound 或 搜索:

超越纯局部差分隐私的洗牌机制分析 / Analysis of Shuffling Beyond Pure Local Differential Privacy


1️⃣ 一句话总结

这篇论文提出了一种新的分析方法,通过引入‘洗牌指数’这一标量参数,能够更精确地刻画洗牌机制对隐私保护的放大效果,并给出了适用于多种本地随机化器的紧致隐私保证上下界,同时提供了高效的计算算法。

源自 arXiv: 2601.19154