InfTDA: A Simple TopDown Mechanism for Hierarchical Differentially Private Counting Queries
Abstract
This paper extends InfTDA, a mechanism proposed in (Boninsegna, Silvestri, PETS 2025) for mobility datasets with origin and destination trips, in a general setting. The algorithm presented in this paper works for any dataset of d categorical features and produces a differentially private synthetic dataset that answers all hierarchical queries, a special case of marginals, each with bounded maximum absolute error. The algorithm builds upon the TopDown mechanism developed for the 2020 US Census.
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