A Differentially Private Linear-Time fPTAS for the Minimum Enclosing Ball Problem

Bar Mahpud, Or Sheffet

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Abstract

The Minimum Enclosing Ball (MEB) problem is one of the most fundamental problems in clustering, with applications in operations research, statistics and computational geometry. In this works, we give the first linear time differentially private (DP) fPTAS for the Minimum Enclosing Ball problem, improving both on the runtime and the utility bound of the best known DP-PTAS for the problem, of Ghazi et al [21]. Given n points in Rd that are covered by the ball B(θopt, ropt), our simple iterative DP-algorithm returns a ball B(θ, r) where r ≤ (1 + γ)ropt and which leaves at most Õ((equation presented)) points uncovered in Õ(n/γ2)-time. We also give a local-model version of our algorithm, that leaves at most Õ((equation presented)) points uncovered, improving on the n0.67-bound of Nissim and Stemmer [31] (at the expense of other parameters). Lastly, we test our algorithm empirically and discuss open problems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35 - 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022
EditorsS. Koyejo, S. Mohamed, A. Agarwal, D. Belgrave, K. Cho, A. Oh
ISBN (Electronic)9781713871088
StatePublished - 2022
Event36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: 28 Nov 20229 Dec 2022

Publication series

NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
Volume35

Conference

Conference36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NeurIPS 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period28/11/229/12/22

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Information Systems
  • Signal Processing

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