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Poster

Multiclass versus Binary Differentially Private PAC Learning

Satchit Sivakumar · Mark Bun · Marco Gaboardi

Keywords: [ Privacy ] [ Online Learning ] [ Theory ]


Abstract: We show a generic reduction from multiclass differentially private PAC learning to binary private PAC learning. We apply this transformation to a recently proposed binary private PAC learner to obtain a private multiclass learner with sample complexity that has a polynomial dependence on the multiclass Littlestone dimension and a poly-logarithmic dependence on the number of classes. This yields a doubly exponential improvement in the dependence on both parameters over learners from previous work. Our proof extends the notion of $\Psi$-dimension defined in work of Ben-David et al. [JCSS, 1995] to the online setting and explores its general properties.

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