Concurrent Composition for Interactive Differential Privacy with Adaptive Privacy-Loss Parameters
In this paper, we study the concurrent composition of interactive mechanisms with adaptively chosen privacy-loss parameters. In this setting, the adversary can interleave queries to existing interactive mechanisms, as well as create new ones. We prove that every valid privacy filter and odometer for noninteractive mechanisms extends to the concurrent composition of interactive mechanisms if privacy loss is measured using $(\epsilon, \delta)$-DP, $f$-DP, or R\'enyi DP of fixed order. Our results offer strong theoretical foundations for enabling full adaptivity in composing differentially private interactive mechanisms, showing that concurrency does not affect the privacy guarantees. We also provide an implementation for users to deploy in practice.
Authors
- Wanrong Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2393-2308)
- Salil Vadhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4059-4072)
- Michael Shoemate (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1190-3363)
- Samuel Haney (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1571-3013)
- Grace Tian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-7102-6840)
- Andrew Vyrros (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1839-0368)
- Vicki Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3659-0059)
Institutions
- Harvard University Press (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
- Published
- 2025-08-31
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.29012/jpc.918
- Primary Topic
- Privacy-Preserving Technologies in Data
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Simons Foundation
- Computing Research Association
- Boston University
- Apple
- Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences