Every learnable distribution class is also differentially privately learnable

Afzali et al. prove Ashtiani's conjecture for arbitrarily small error, resolving an apparent contradiction from earlier work on fixed-error learning.

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Mohammad Afzali · Hassan Ashtiani · Alex Bie · Gautam Kamath · Peihan Liu · Argyris Mouzakis · +1 more

University of British Columbia · McMaster University · Vector Institute · Google Research · New York University

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Afzali et al.

The authors formalize the distinction between learning at a fixed target error and the standard definition requiring arbitrarily small error.

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