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In this paper, we design Top-DP, a novel solution to optimize the differential privacy protection of decentralized image classification systems. The key insight of our solution is to leverage the unique features of decentralized…

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Complex networks have become powerful mechanisms for studying a variety of realworld systems. Consequently, many human-designed network models are proposed that reproduce nontrivial properties of complex networks, such as long-tail degree…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Niousha Attar , Sadegh Aliakbary

We investigate the increasingly prominent task of jointly inferring multiple networks from nodal observations. While most joint inference methods assume that observations are available at all nodes, we consider the realistic and more…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-17 Madeline Navarro , Samuel Rey , Andrei Buciulea , Antonio G. Marques , Santiago Segarra

Adaptive synchronization protocols for heterogeneous multi-agent network are investigated. The interaction between each of the agents is carried out through a directed graph. We highlight the lack of communication between agents and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Miguel F. Arevalo-Castiblanco , Duvan A. Tellez-Castro , Jorge Sofrony , Eduardo Mojica-Nava

Networked system often relies on distributed algorithms to achieve a global computation goal with iterative local information exchanges between neighbor nodes. To preserve data privacy, a node may add a random noise to its original data for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Jianping He , Lin Cai , Xinping Guan

Adaptive experimentation under unknown network interference requires solving two coupled problems: (i) learning the underlying dynamics of interference among units and (ii) using these dynamics to inform treatment allocation in order to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-13 Aidan Gleich , Eric Laber , Alexander Volfovsky

Anonymous social networks present a number of new and challenging problems for existing Social Network Analysis techniques. Traditionally, existing methods for analysing graph structure, such as community detection, required global…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Alvaro Garcia-Recuero

I study two privacy-preserving social network graphs to dis- close the types of relationships of connecting edges and provide flexible multigrained access control. To create such graphs, my schemes employ the concept of secretaries and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-03 YounSun Cho

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

In this paper, we consider the privacy preservation problem in both discrete- and continuous-time average consensus algorithms with strongly connected and balanced graphs, against either internal honest-but-curious agents or external…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-07 Yi Xiong , Zhongkui Li

The graph identification problem consists of discovering the interactions among nodes in a network given their state/feature trajectories. This problem is challenging because the behavior of a node is coupled to all the other nodes by the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Eduardo Sebastian , Thai Duong , Nikolay Atanasov , Eduardo Montijano , Carlos Sagues

We present a framework for designing distorting mechanisms that allow remotely operating anomaly detectors while preserving privacy. We consider the problem setting in which a remote station seeks to identify anomalies using system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Haleh Hayati , Carlos Murguia , Nathan van de Wouw

Online social networks are being increasingly used for analyzing various societal phenomena such as epidemiology, information dissemination, marketing and sentiment flow. Popular analysis techniques such as clustering and influential node…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Faraz Ahmed , Rong Jin , Alex X. Liu

Privacy and interpretability are two important ingredients for achieving trustworthy machine learning. We study the interplay of these two aspects in graph machine learning through graph reconstruction attacks. The goal of the adversary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Mandeep Rathee , Thorben Funke , Megha Khosla

Federated optimization, wherein several agents in a network collaborate with a central server to achieve optimal social cost over the network with no requirement for exchanging information among agents, has attracted significant interest…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Syed Eqbal Alam , Dhirendra Shukla , Shrisha Rao

Graphs provide a natural way to represent data by encoding information about objects and the relationships between them. With the ever-increasing amount of data collected and generated, locating specific patterns of relationships between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Tatyana Benko , Rebecca Jones , Lucas Tate

Federated data analytics is a framework for distributed data analysis where a server compiles noisy responses from a group of distributed low-bandwidth user devices to estimate aggregate statistics. Two major challenges in this framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Kamalika Chaudhuri , Chuan Guo , Mike Rabbat

A fundamental problem in studying and modeling economic and financial systems is represented by privacy issues, which put severe limitations on the amount of accessible information. Here we introduce a novel, highly nontrivial method to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-10 Giulio Cimini , Tiziano Squartini , Andrea Gabrielli , Diego Garlaschelli

Graph knowledge models and ontologies are very powerful modeling and re asoning tools. We propose an effective approach to model network attacks and attack prediction which plays important roles in security management. The goals of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-04 Ahmad Salahi , Morteza Ansarinia

We address the problem of identifying a graph structure from the observation of signals defined on its nodes. Fundamentally, the unknown graph encodes direct relationships between signal elements, which we aim to recover from observable…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques , Gonzalo Mateos , Alejandro Ribeiro