Core Mondrian: Basic Mondrian beyond k-anonymity

Abstract

We present Core Mondrian, a scalable extension of the Original Mondrian partition-based anonymization algorithm. A modular strategy layer supports k-anonymity, allowing new privacy models to be added easily. A hybrid recursive/queue execution engine exploits multi-core parallelism while maintaining deterministic output. Utility-preserving enhancements include NaN-pattern pre-partitioning, metric-driven cut scoring, and dynamic suppression budget management. Experiments on the 48k-record UCI ADULT dataset and synthetically scaled versions up to 1M records achieve lower Discernibility Metric scores than Original Mondrian for numeric quasi-identifier sets while parallel processing delivers up to 4x speedup vs. sequential Core Mondrian. Core Mondrian enables privacy-compliant equity analytics at production scale.