Paper ID: 2307.00863

Thompson Sampling under Bernoulli Rewards with Local Differential Privacy

Bo Jiang, Tianchi Zhao, Ming Li

This paper investigates the problem of regret minimization for multi-armed bandit (MAB) problems with local differential privacy (LDP) guarantee. Given a fixed privacy budget $\epsilon$, we consider three privatizing mechanisms under Bernoulli scenario: linear, quadratic and exponential mechanisms. Under each mechanism, we derive stochastic regret bound for Thompson Sampling algorithm. Finally, we simulate to illustrate the convergence of different mechanisms under different privacy budgets.

Submitted: Jul 3, 2023