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by Fireflite 2630 days ago
Injecting entropy into your data in order to generate differentially private access actually typically improves model performance, rather than degrades it.

This behaviour is counterintuitive, but effectively you're enforcing a degree of regularization in a way similar to how data augmentation works. You'll get reduced training set performance and improved test set performance, as with other forms of regularization until you make it too strong.