【论文速递】Should We Combine Our Data? Algorithms and Limits for Privately Assessing Data S

英文标题：Should We Combine Our Data? Algorithms and Limits for Privately Assessing Data Sharing

arXiv编号：2611.03599
作者：Mahdi Haghifam, Kumar Kshitij Patel, Avrim Blum
来源：arXiv
原文链接：https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03599

中文摘要：
In this paper, we study when two parties should pool their data to train a machine learning model. Two agents, Alice and Bob, each hold a sensitive labeled dataset and want to train a classifier from a given hypothesis class $\mathcal{H}$. Even when each party's dataset can be perfectly classified on its own, the two parties may follow conflicting labeling standards or have selection biases that affect their features and label sets, such that no single classifier in $\mathcal{H}$ fits their combined data. Before committing to data sharing, Alice and Bob therefore want to test whether a single classifier in $\mathcal{H}$ can jointly fit both datasets---without revealing their individual data points to one another. We formalize this problem from a learning-theoretic viewpoint via $\operatorname{opt}_\mathcal{H}$, the minimum \emph{number of mistakes} made by any hypothesis in $\mathcal{H}$ on their pooled data. Through interactive communication, the agents must distinguish $\operatorname{opt}_\mathcal{H}=0$ (compatible datasets) from $\operatorname{opt}_\mathcal{H}\geq t$ (conflicting datasets) under pure $\varepsilon$-two-party differential privacy. A trusted curator could do this with $t=O(1/\varepsilon)$, and we ask how small $t$ can be without one. For thresholds on the real line over a domain of size $m$, we show that the optimal $t$ is $\tildeΘ(\log\log m/\varepsilon)$, exponentially smaller than the $Θ(\log m/\varepsilon)$ samples needed to privately learn thresholds, even with a curator. For halfspaces in $\mathbb{R}^d$, the dependence on $m$ jumps to $\log(m)$: we give a protocol with $t=\tilde{O}(d^3\log m/\varepsilon)$ and show that some domains require $t=Ω(d\log(m/d)/\varepsilon)$.

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