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Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Efe Onaran , Siddharth Garg , Elza Erkip

This paper analyzes different online algorithms for the problem of assigning weights to edges in a fully-connected bipartite graph that minimizes the overall cost while satisfying constraints. Edges in this graph may disappear and reappear…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-05-03 Ankur Sahai

The shortest path problem in graphs is a cornerstone of AI theory and applications. Existing algorithms generally ignore edge weight computation time. We present a generalized framework for weighted directed graphs, where edge weight can be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Eyal Weiss , Ariel Felner , Gal A. Kaminka

Anomaly detection from graph data is an important data mining task in many applications such as social networks, finance, and e-commerce. Existing efforts in graph anomaly detection typically only consider the information in a single scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yu Zheng , Ming Jin , Yixin Liu , Lianhua Chi , Khoa T. Phan , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

This work focuses on showing some arguments addressed to dismantle the extended idea about that social networks completely lacks of privacy properties. We consider the so-called active attacks to the privacy of social networks and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Serafino Cicerone , Gabriele Di Stefano , Sandi Klavžar , Ismael G. Yero

We propose an algorithm for counting below-threshold triangles in weighted graphs under local weight differential privacy. While prior work has largely focused on unweighted graphs, edge weights are intrinsic to many real-world networks. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kevin Pfisterer , Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

Accurately analyzing graph properties of social networks is a challenging task because of access limitations to the graph data. To address this challenge, several algorithms to obtain unbiased estimates of properties from few samples via a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Kazuki Nakajima , Kazuyuki Shudo

In this paper we present a novel approach for anonymizing Online Social Network graphs which can be used in conjunction with existing perturbation approaches such as clustering and modification. The main insight of this paper is that by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-07 David F. Nettleton , Vicenc Torra , Anton Dries

Edge-weighted graphs play an important role in the theory of Robinsonian matrices and similarity theory, particularly via the concept of level graphs, that is, graphs obtained from an edge-weighted graph by removing all sufficiently light…

Statistical methods protecting sensitive information or the identity of the data owner have become critical to ensure privacy of individuals as well as of organizations. This paper investigates anonymization methods based on representation…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 Clément Feutry , Pablo Piantanida , Yoshua Bengio , Pierre Duhamel

In complex networks, especially social networks, networks could be divided into disjoint partitions that the ratio between the number of internal edges (the edges between the vertices within same partition) to the number of outer edges…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Hamid Shahrivari Joghan , Alireza Bagheri , Meysam Azad

In a wide spectrum of real-world applications, it is very important to analyze and mine graph data such as social networks, communication networks, citation networks, and so on. However, the release of such graph data often raises privacy…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Weilong Ren , Kambiz Ghazinour , Xiang Lian

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown their great ability in modeling graph structured data. However, real-world graphs usually contain structure noises and have limited labeled nodes. The performance of GNNs would drop significantly when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Enyan Dai , Wei Jin , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

We address the problem of social network de-anonymization when relationships between people are described by scale-free graphs. In particular, we propose a rigorous, asymptotic mathematical analysis of the network de-anonymization problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-27 Carla Chiasserini , Michele Garetto , Emilio Leonardi

Detailed network models of social, biological and other complex systems are often dense, which increases their computational complexity in simulations and analysis. To address this challenge, graph sparsification is used to remove edges…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-19 Bernardo Pereira , Felipe Xavier Costa , Luís M. Rocha

We study the problem of approximating all-pair distances in a weighted undirected graph with differential privacy, introduced by Sealfon [Sea16]. Given a publicly known undirected graph, we treat the weights of edges as sensitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Michael Dinitz , Chenglin Fan , Jingcheng Liu , Jalaj Upadhyay , Zongrui Zou

The task of representing entire graphs has seen a surge of prominent results, mainly due to learning convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on graph-structured data. While CNNs demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in graph classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Sergey Ivanov , Evgeny Burnaev

Steganography aims to conceal the very fact that the communication takes place, by embedding a message into a digit object such as image without introducing noticeable artifacts. A number of steganographic systems have been developed in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Hanzhou Wu , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Yiliang Xiong , Hongxia Wang

We introduce a model for differentially private analysis of weighted graphs in which the graph topology $(V,E)$ is assumed to be public and the private information consists only of the edge weights $w:E\to\mathbb{R}^+$. This can express…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Adam Sealfon

Data defined over a network have been successfully modelled by means of graph filters. However, although in many scenarios the connectivity of the network is known, e.g., smart grids, social networks, etc., the lack of well-defined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Alberto Natali , Mario Coutino , Geert Leus