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Generalization theory has been established for sparse deep neural networks under high-dimensional regime. Beyond generalization, parameter estimation is also important since it is crucial for variable selection and interpretability of deep…

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We study spectral graph clustering under edge differential privacy. We propose a matrix shuffling mechanism that combines randomized edge flipping with a random permutation of the adjacency matrix. While edge flipping alone provides only a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Antti Koskela , Mohamed Seif , H. Vincent Poor , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Empirical networks are often globally sparse, with a small average number of connections per node, when compared to the total size of the network. However, this sparsity tends not to be homogeneous, and networks can also be locally dense,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-20 Tiago P. Peixoto

Modeling information that resides on vertices of large graphs is a key problem in several real-life applications, ranging from social networks to the Internet-of-things. Signal Processing on Graphs and, in particular, graph wavelets can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Arlei Silva , Xuan-Hong Dang , Prithwish Basu , Ambuj K Singh , Ananthram Swami

Block graphons (also called stochastic block models) are an important and widely-studied class of models for random networks. We provide a lower bound on the accuracy of estimators for block graphons with a large number of blocks. We show…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-04-08 Audra McMillan , Adam Smith

In this paper, we derive the asymptotic distribution of the number of copies of a fixed graph $H$ in a random graph $G_n$ sampled from a sparse graphon model. Specifically, we provide a refined analysis that separates the contributions of…

Learning the similarity between structured data, especially the graphs, is one of the essential problems. Besides the approach like graph kernels, Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance recently draws big attention due to its flexibility to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hongwei Jin , Xun Chen

The problem of counting subgraphs or graphlets under local differential privacy is an important challenge that has attracted significant attention from researchers. However, much of the existing work focuses on small graphlets like…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn , Donlapark Ponnoprat , Nicha Hirankarn , Quentin Hillebrand

We provide an improved analysis of standard differentially private gradient descent for linear regression under the squared error loss. Under modest assumptions on the input, we characterize the distribution of the iterate at each time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Gavin Brown , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Georgina Evans , Daogao Liu , Adam Smith , Abhradeep Thakurta

Data about individuals may contain private and sensitive information. The differential privacy (DP) was proposed to address the problem of protecting the privacy of each individual while keeping useful information about a population.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li

Sparse graphical modelling has attained widespread attention across various academic fields. We propose two new graphical model approaches, Gslope and Tslope, which provide sparse estimates of the precision matrix by penalizing its sorted…

Graph sparsification is a well-established technique for accelerating graph-based learning algorithms, which uses edge sampling to approximate dense graphs with sparse ones. Because the sparsification error is random and unknown, users must…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Siyao Wang , Miles E. Lopes

In a recent paper, Caron and Fox suggest a probabilistic model for sparse graphs which are exchangeable when associating each vertex with a time parameter in $\mathbb{R}_+$. Here we show that by generalizing the classical definition of…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Henry Cohn , Nina Holden

When working with user data providing well-defined privacy guarantees is paramount. In this work, we aim to manipulate and share an entire sparse dataset with a third party privately. In fact, differential privacy has emerged as the gold…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Alessandro Epasto , Hossein Esfandiari , Vahab Mirrokni , Andres Munoz Medina

For graphs generated from stochastic blockmodels, adjacency spectral embedding is asymptotically consistent. Further, adjacency spectral embedding composed with universally consistent classifiers is universally consistent to achieve the…

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Graphons are general and powerful models for generating graphs of varying size. In this paper, we propose to directly model graphons using neural networks, obtaining Implicit Graphon Neural Representation (IGNR). Existing work in modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Xinyue Xia , Gal Mishne , Yusu Wang

We establish a simple connection between robust and differentially-private algorithms: private mechanisms which perform well with very high probability are automatically robust in the sense that they retain accuracy even if a constant…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-02 Kristian Georgiev , Samuel B. Hopkins

This paper studies the problem of estimating the grahpon model - the underlying generating mechanism of a network. Graphon estimation arises in many applications such as predicting missing links in networks and learning user preferences in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-12 Jiaming Xu

Recently there has been increasing interest in developing and deploying deep graph learning algorithms for many tasks, such as fraud detection and recommender systems. Albeit, there is a limited number of publicly available graph-structured…

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Deep learning models are increasingly popular in many machine learning applications where the training data may contain sensitive information. To provide formal and rigorous privacy guarantee, many learning systems now incorporate…

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