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Poster

$k$-Means Clustering with Distance-Based Privacy

Alessandro Epasto · Vahab Mirrokni · Shyam Narayanan · Peilin Zhong

Great Hall & Hall B1+B2 (level 1) #1610
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[ Paper [ Poster [ OpenReview
Wed 13 Dec 3 p.m. PST — 5 p.m. PST

Abstract: In this paper, we initiate the study of Euclidean clustering with Distance-based privacy. Distance-based privacy is motivated by the fact that it is often only needed to protect the privacy of exact, rather than approximate, locations. We provide constant-approximate algorithms for $k$-means and $k$-median clustering, with additive error depending only on the attacker's precision bound $\rho$, rather than the radius $\Lambda$ of the space. In addition, we empirically demonstrate that our algorithm performs significantly better than previous differentially private clustering algorithms, as well as naive distance-based private clustering baselines.

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