research areaMethods and Algorithms, research areaPrivacyconference ICML
content type paperpublished June 2023

Near-Optimal Algorithms for Private Online Optimization in the Realizable Regime

In collaboration with Tel Aviv University

AuthorsHilal Asi*, Vitaly Feldman*, Tomer Koren*, Kunal Talwar*

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*=Equal Contributors

We consider online learning problems in the realizable setting, where there is a zero-loss solution, and propose new Differentially Private (DP) algorithms that obtain near-optimal regret bounds. For the problem of online prediction from experts, we design new algorithms that obtain near-optimal regret where is the number of experts. This significantly improves over the best existing regret bounds for the DP non-realizable setting which are . We also develop an adaptive algorithm for the small-loss setting with regret where is the total loss of the best expert. Additionally, we consider DP online convex optimization in the realizable setting and propose an algorithm with near-optimal regret , as well as an algorithm for the smooth case with regret , both significantly improving over existing bounds in the non-realizable regime.

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