Zhenhua Zhao

Mr. Zhenhua Zhao


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Academic Career Length

9Years (2018-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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29 May 2018 in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
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YNYiwen Nie
Yiwen Nie
WYWei Yang
Wei Yang
LHLiusheng Huang
Liusheng Huang
XXXike Xie
Xike Xie
ZZZhenhua Zhao
Zhenhua Zhao
SWShaowei Wang
Shaowei Wang
Recently, local differential privacy (LDP), as a strong and practical notion, has been applied to deal with privacy issues in data collection. However, existing LDP-based strategies mainly focus on utility optimization at a single privacy level while ignoring various privacy preferences of data providers and multilevel privacy demands for statistics. In this paper, we for the first time propose a framework to optimize the utility of histogram estimation with these two privacy requirements. To clarify the goal of privacy protection, we personalize the traditional definition of LDP. We design two independent approaches to minimize the utility loss: Advanced Combination, which composes multilevel results for utility optimisation, and Data Recycle with Personalized Privacy, which enlarges sample size for an estimation. We demonstrate their effectiveness on privacy and utility, respectively. Moreover, we embed these approaches within a Recycle and Combination Framework and prove that the framework stably achieves the optimal utility by quantifying its error bounds. On real-world datasets, our approaches are experimentally validated and remarkably outperform baseline methods.