# Copyright 2014 Google Inc. All rights reserved. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # Authors: vpihur@google.com (Vasyl Pihur) and fanti@google.com (Giulia Fanti) # # Tools used to simulate sending partial ngrams to the server for estimating the # dictionary of terms over which we want to learn a distribution. This # mostly contains functions that aid in the generation of synthetic data. library(RUnit) library(parallel) source("analysis/R/encode.R") source("analysis/R/decode.R") source("analysis/R/simulation.R") source("analysis/R/association.R") source("analysis/R/decode_ngrams.R") # The alphabet is the set of all possible characters that will appear in a # string. Here we use the English alphabet, but one might want to include # numbers or punctuation marks. alphabet <- letters GenerateCandidates <- function(alphabet, ngram_size = 2) { # Draws a random string for each individual in the # population from distribution. # # Args: # N: Number of individuals in the population # num_strs: Number of strings from which to draw strings # str_len: Length of each string # # Returns: # Vector of strings for each individual in the population cands <- do.call(expand.grid, lapply(seq(ngram_size), function(i) alphabet)) apply(cands, 1, function(x) paste0(x, collapse = "")) } GenerateString <- function(n) { # Generates a string of a given length from the alphabet. # # Args: # n: Number of characters in the string # # Returns: # String of length n paste0(sample(alphabet, n, replace = TRUE), collapse = "") } GeneratePopulation <- function(N, num_strs, str_len = 10, distribution = 1) { # Generates a string for each individual in the population from distribution. # # Args: # N: Number of individuals in the population # num_strs: Number of strings from which to draw strings # str_len: Length of each string # distribution: which type of distribution to use # 1: Zipfian # 2: Geometric (exponential) # 3: Step function # # Returns: # Vector of strings for each individual in the population strs <- sapply(1:num_strs, function(i) GenerateString(str_len)) if (distribution == 1) { # Zipfian-ish distribution prob <- (1:num_strs)^20 prob <- prob / sum(prob) + 0.001 prob <- prob / sum(prob) } else if (distribution == 2) { # Geometric distribution (discrete approximation to exponential) p <- 0.3 prob <- p * (1 - p)^(1:num_strs - 1) prob <- prob / sum(prob) } else { # Uniform prob <- rep(1 / num_strs, num_strs) } sample(strs, N, replace = TRUE, prob = prob) } SelectNGrams <- function(str, num_ngrams, size, max_str_len = 6) { # Selects which ngrams each user will encode and then submit. # # Args: # str: String from which ngram is built. # num_ngrams: Number of ngrams to choose # size: Number of characters per ngram # max_str_len: Maximum number of characters in the string # # Returns: # List of each individual's ngrams and which positions the ngrams # were drawn from. start <- sort(sample(seq(1, max_str_len, by = size), num_ngrams)) ngrams <- mapply(function(x, y, str) substr(str, x, y), start, start + size - 1, MoreArgs = list(str = str)) list(ngrams = ngrams, starts = start) } UpdateMapWithCandidates <- function(str_candidates, sim, params) { # Generates a new map based on the returned candidates. # Normally this would be created on the spot by having the # aggregator hash the string candidates. But since we already have # the map from simulation, we'll just choose the appropriate # column # # Arguments: # str_candidates: Vector of string candidates # sim: Simulation object containing the original map # params: RAPPOR parameter list k <- params$k h <- params$h m <- params$m # First add the real candidates to the map valid_cands <- intersect(str_candidates, colnames(sim$full_map$map_by_cohort[[1]])) updated_map <- sim$full_map updated_map$map_by_cohort <- lapply(1:m, function(i) { sim$full_map$map_by_cohort[[i]][, valid_cands] }) # Now add the false positives (we can just draw random strings for # these since they didn't appear in the original dataset anyway) new_cands <- setdiff(str_candidates, colnames(sim$full_map$map_by_cohort[[1]])) M <- length(new_cands) if (M > 0) { for (i in 1:m) { ones <- sample(1:k, M * h, replace = TRUE) cols <- rep(1:M, each = h) strs <- c(sort(valid_cands), new_cands) updated_map$map_by_cohort[[i]] <- do.call(cBind, list(updated_map$map_by_cohort[[i]], sparseMatrix(ones, cols, dims = c(k, M)))) colnames(updated_map$map_by_cohort[[i]]) <- strs } } if (class(updated_map$map_by_cohort[[1]]) == "logical") { updated_map$all_cohorts_map <- unlist(updated_map$map_by_cohort) updated_map$all_cohorts_map <- Matrix(updated_map$all_cohorts_map, sparse = TRUE) colnames(updated_map$all_cohorts_map) <- c(valid_cands, new_cands) } else { updated_map$all_cohorts_map <- do.call("rBind", updated_map$map_by_cohort) } updated_map } SimulateNGrams <- function(N, ngram_params, str_len, num_strs = 10, alphabet, params, distribution = 1) { # Simulates the creation and encoding of ngrams for each individual. # # Args: # N: Number of individuals in the population # ngram_params: Parameters about ngram size, etc. # str_len: Length of each string # num_strs: NUmber of strings in the dictionary # alphabet: Alphabet used to generate strings # params: RAPPOR parameters, like noise and cohorts # # Returns: # List containing all the information needed for estimating and # verifying the results. # Get the list of strings for each user strs <- GeneratePopulation(N, num_strs = num_strs, str_len = str_len, distribution) # Split them into ngrams and encode ngram <- lapply(strs, function(i) SelectNGrams(i, num_ngrams = ngram_params$num_ngrams_collected, size = ngram_params$ngram_size, max_str_len = str_len)) cands <- GenerateCandidates(alphabet, ngram_params$ngram_size) map <- CreateMap(cands, params, FALSE) cohorts <- sample(1:params$m, N, replace = TRUE) g <- sapply(ngram, function(x) paste(x$starts, sep = "_", collapse = "_")) ug <- sort(unique(g)) pairings <- t(sapply(ug, function(x) sapply(strsplit(x, "_"), function(y) as.numeric(y)))) inds <- lapply(1:length(ug), function(i) ind <- which(g == ug[i])) reports <- lapply(1:length(ug), function(k) { # Generate the ngram reports lapply(1:ngram_params$num_ngrams_collected, function(x) { EncodeAll(sapply(inds[[k]], function(j) ngram[[j]]$ngrams[x]), cohorts[inds[[k]]], map$map_by_cohort, params)}) }) cat("Encoded the ngrams.\n") # Now generate the full string reports full_map <- CreateMap(sort(unique(strs)), params, FALSE) full_reports <- EncodeAll(strs, cohorts, full_map$map_by_cohort, params) list(reports = reports, cohorts = cohorts, ngram = ngram, map = map, strs = strs, pairings = pairings, inds = inds, cands = cands, full_reports = full_reports, full_map = full_map) } EstimateDictionaryTrial <- function(N, str_len, num_strs, params, ngram_params, distribution = 3) { # Runs a single trial for simulation. Generates simulated reports, # decodes them, and returns the result. # # Arguments: # N: Number of users to simulation # str_len: The length of strings to estimate # num_strs: The number of strings in the dictionary # params: RAPPOR parameter list # ngram_params: Parameters related to the size of ngrams # distribution: Tells what kind of distribution to use: # 1: Zipfian # 2: Geometric # 3: Uniform (default) # # Returns: # List with recovered and true marginals. # We call the needed libraries here in order to make them available when this # function gets called by BorgApply. Otherwise, they do not get included. library(glmnet) library(parallel) sim <- SimulateNGrams(N, ngram_params, str_len, num_strs = num_strs, alphabet, params, distribution) res <- EstimateDictionary(sim, N, ngram_params, params) str_candidates <- res$found_candidates pairwise_candidates <- res$pairwise_candidates if (length(str_candidates) == 0) { return (NULL) } updated_map <- UpdateMapWithCandidates(str_candidates, sim, params) # Compute the marginal for this new set of strings variable_counts <- ComputeCounts(sim$full_reports, sim$cohorts, params) # Our dictionary estimate marginal <- Decode(variable_counts, updated_map$all_cohorts_map, params)$fit # Estimate given full dictionary knowledge marginal_full <- Decode(variable_counts, sim$full_map$all_cohorts_map, params)$fit # The true (sampled) data distribution truth <- sort(table(sim$strs)) / N list(marginal = marginal, marginal_full = marginal_full, truth = truth, pairwise_candidates = pairwise_candidates) }