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Empirical Risk Minimization in Non-interactive Local Differential Privacy Revisited

Neural Information Processing Systems

In this paper, we revisit the Empirical Risk Minimization problem in the noninteractive local model of differential privacy. In the case of constant or low dimensions (pn), we first show that if the loss function is(,T)-smooth, wecanavoidadependence ofthesample complexity,toachieveerrorฮฑ,onthe exponential of the dimensionalityp with base1/ฮฑ (i.e.,ฮฑ p), which answers a questionin[19].





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Neural Information Processing Systems

Many high-dimensional statistical inference problems are believed to possess inherent computational hardness. Various frameworks have been proposed to give rigorous evidence for such hardness, including lower bounds against restricted models of computation (such as low-degree functions), as well as methods rooted in statistical physics that are based on free energy landscapes. This paper aims to make a rigorousconnectionbetween the seeminglydifferent low-degreeand free-energybased approaches. We define a free-energybasedcriterionfor hardnessand formallyconnectit to the well-establishednotionof low-degree hardness for a broad class of statistical problems, namely all Gaussian additive models and certain models with a sparse planted signal.