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Nebula: Efficient, Private and Accurate Histogram Estimation

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We present Nebula, a system for differential private histogram estimation of data distributed among clients. Nebula enables clients to locally subsample and encode their data such that an untrusted server learns only data values that meet an aggregation threshold to satisfy differential privacy guarantees. Compared with other private histogram estimation systems, Nebula uniquely achieves all of the following: i) a strict upper bound on privacy leakage; ii) client privacy under realistic trust assumptions; iii) significantly better utility compared to standard local differential privacy systems; and iv) avoiding trusted third-parties, multi-party computation, or trusted hardware. We provide both a formal evaluation of Nebula's privacy, utility and efficiency guarantees, along with an empirical evaluation on three real-world datasets. We demonstrate that clients can encode and upload their data efficiently (only 0.0058 seconds running time and 0.0027 MB data communication) and privately (strong differential privacy guarantees ε = 1). On the United States Census dataset, the Nebula's untrusted aggregation server estimates histograms with above 88% better utility than the existing local deployment of differential privacy. Additionally, we describe a variant that allows clients to submit multi-dimensional data, with similar privacy, utility, and performance. Finally, we provide an open source implementation of Nebula.
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hal-04863194 , version 1 (03-01-2025)

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Ali Shahin Shamsabadi, Peter Snyder, Ralph Giles, Aurélien Bellet, Hamed Haddadi. Nebula: Efficient, Private and Accurate Histogram Estimation. 2024. ⟨hal-04863194⟩
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