Not All Learnable Distribution Classes are Privately Learnable

Abstract

We give an example of a class of distributions that is learnable up to constant error in total variation distance with a finite number of samples, but not learnable under (, δ)-differential privacy with the same target error. This weakly refutes a conjecture of Ashtiani.

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