Query Complexity of Bayesian Private Learning

Kuang Xu

Neural Information Processing Systems 

We study the query complexity of Bayesian Private Learning: a learner wishes to locate a random target within an interval by submitting queries, in the presence of an adversary who observes all of her queries but not the responses. How many queries are necessary and sufficient in order for the learner to accurately estimate the target, while simultaneously concealing the target from the adversary? Our main result is a query complexity lower bound that is tight up to the first order. We show that if the learner wants to estimate the target within an error of, while ensuring that no adversary estimator can achieve a constant additive error with probability greater than 1/L, then the query complexity is on the order of L log(1/) as!