Privacy Budget Composition

Problem

Under basic sequential composition, the total privacy budget of several epsilon-DP releases is their sum. Return the sum of the epsilon values; an empty list costs nothing.

Hint

Advanced composition can do better than the naive sum for many queries.

Test cases

case 1

in: [[0.1,0.2,0.3]]

expected: 0.6

case 2

in: [[1]]

expected: 1

case 3

in: [[0.25,0.25,0.25,0.25]]

expected: 1

case 4

in: [[]]

expected: 0

Starter codePython

def privacy_budget_sum(epsilons):
    # Your code here
    pass

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