This paper addresses the challenge of extracting shapes from time series data under user-level local differential privacy (LDP). The authors propose PrivShape, a novel mechanism that consists of the following key steps:
Compressive SAX: The time series are transformed using Compressive SAX to reduce the length while preserving the essential shape information.
Trie-based Candidate Generation: A trie data structure is used to generate candidate shapes. The authors introduce a pruning strategy based on trie expansion to reduce the number of candidates and enhance utility.
Two-Level Refinement: A two-level refinement strategy is proposed to further improve the estimation of the top-k frequent shapes at the leaf nodes of the trie.
The authors demonstrate that PrivShape outperforms the existing mechanism PatternLDP, which is extended to satisfy user-level LDP, in both time series clustering and classification tasks on real-world datasets. The key advantages of PrivShape are its ability to effectively extract essential shapes while providing strong user-level privacy guarantees.
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