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Differentially Private Policy Evaluation

Borja Balle, Maziar Gomrokchi, Doina Precup

Abstract

We present the first differentially private algorithms for reinforcement learning, which apply to the task of evaluating a fixed policy. We establish two approaches for achieving differential privacy, provide a theoretical analysis of the privacy and utility of the two algorithms, and show promising results on simple empirical examples.

BibTeX
@InProceedings{pmlr-v48-balle16,
  title = 	 {Differentially Private Policy Evaluation},
  author = 	 {Balle, Borja and Gomrokchi, Maziar and Precup, Doina},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of The 33rd International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = 	 {2130--2138},
  year = 	 {2016},
  editor = 	 {Balcan, Maria Florina and Weinberger, Kilian Q.},
  volume = 	 {48},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  address = 	 {New York, New York, USA},
  month = 	 {20--22 Jun},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v48/balle16.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v48/balle16.html},
  abstract = 	 {We present the first differentially private algorithms for reinforcement learning, which apply to the task of evaluating a fixed policy. We establish two approaches for achieving differential privacy, provide a theoretical analysis of the privacy and utility of the two algorithms, and show promising results on simple empirical examples.}
}