On the Robustness of CountSketch to Adaptive Inputs

02/28/2022
by   Edith Cohen, et al.
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CountSketch is a popular dimensionality reduction technique that maps vectors to a lower dimension using randomized linear measurements. The sketch supports recovering ℓ_2-heavy hitters of a vector (entries with v[i]^2 ≥1/kv^2_2). We study the robustness of the sketch in adaptive settings where input vectors may depend on the output from prior inputs. Adaptive settings arise in processes with feedback or with adversarial attacks. We show that the classic estimator is not robust, and can be attacked with a number of queries of the order of the sketch size. We propose a robust estimator (for a slightly modified sketch) that allows for quadratic number of queries in the sketch size, which is an improvement factor of √(k) (for k heavy hitters) over prior work.

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