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Abstract
Distributed online learning is gaining increased traction due to its unique
ability to process large-scale datasets and streaming data. To address the
growing public awareness and concern on privacy protection, plenty of
algorithms have been proposed to enable differential privacy in distributed
online optimization and learning. However, these algorithms often face the
dilemma of trading learning accuracy for privacy. By exploiting the unique
characteristics of online learning, this paper proposes an approach that
tackles the dilemma and ensures both differential privacy and learning accuracy
in distributed online learning. More specifically, while ensuring a diminishing
expected instantaneous regret, the approach can simultaneously ensure a finite
cumulative privacy budget, even in the infinite time horizon. To cater for the
fully distributed setting, we adopt the local differential-privacy framework,
which avoids the reliance on a trusted data curator that is required in the
classic "centralized" (global) differential-privacy framework. To the best of
our knowledge, this is the first algorithm that successfully ensures both
rigorous local differential privacy and learning accuracy. The effectiveness of
the proposed algorithm is evaluated using machine learning tasks, including
logistic regression on the the "mushrooms" datasets and CNN-based image
classification on the "MNIST" and "CIFAR-10" datasets.