Research Article

The Discrete Gaussian Expectation Maximization (Gradient) Algorithm for Differential Privacy

Algorithm 1

Differentially private DG-EM (gradient) algorithm.
Input:, privacy parameter and , initial parameter and satisfy Assumption 1, the number of iterations , step size , and failure probability .
(1)Let ,
(2)fordo
(3) For each , calculate the robust gradient and add a discrete Gaussian noise, that is,
where .
(4) Let vector denote
(5) Update .
(6)end for