Research Article

Key-Value Data Collection with Distribution Estimation under Local Differential Privacy

Table 1

Notations.

SymbolDescription

Domain of key-value data
Key-value data set of user
Domain of the key,
Domain of the padded key,
Domain size of the key
Padding length
Domain size of the padded key,
Vector encoded by sampled key-value pair
Randomized output vector
or The -th element of vector or
The key of
The value of
The perturbed key of
The perturbed value of
True frequency of the key
Estimated frequency of the key
Postprocessed frequency of the key