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Renyi Differential Privacy
We propose a natural relaxation of differential privacy based on the Renyi
divergence. Closely related notions have appeared in several recent papers that
analyzed composition of differentially private mechanisms. We argue that the
useful analytical tool can be used as a privacy definition, compactly and
accurately representing guarantees on the tails of the privacy loss.
We demonstrate that the new definition shares many important properties with
the standard definition of differential privacy, while additionally allowing
tighter analysis of composite heterogeneous mechanisms
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