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Graphs are pervasive in our everyday lives, with relevance to biology, the internet, and infrastructure, as well as numerous other applications. It is thus necessary to have an understanding as to how quickly a graph disintegrates, whether…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Jeremie Fish , Mahesh Banavar , Erik Bollt

Graph data is used in a wide range of applications, while analyzing graph data without protection is prone to privacy breach risks. To mitigate the privacy risks, we resort to the standard technique of differential privacy to publish a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Quan Yuan , Zhikun Zhang , Linkang Du , Min Chen , Peng Cheng , Mingyang Sun

The Fair Graph Anomaly Detection (FairGAD) problem aims to accurately detect anomalous nodes in an input graph while avoiding biased predictions against individuals from sensitive subgroups. However, the current literature does not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Neng Kai Nigel Neo , Yeon-Chang Lee , Yiqiao Jin , Sang-Wook Kim , Srijan Kumar

Many security and privacy problems can be modeled as a graph classification problem, where nodes in the graph are classified by collective classification simultaneously. State-of-the-art collective classification methods for such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Binghui Wang , Jinyuan Jia , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Graph embeddings have been proposed to map graph data to low dimensional space for downstream processing (e.g., node classification or link prediction). With the increasing collection of personal data, graph embeddings can be trained on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Vasisht Duddu , Antoine Boutet , Virat Shejwalkar

The public sharing of user information opens the door for adversaries to infer private data, leading to privacy breaches and facilitating malicious activities. While numerous studies have concentrated on privacy leakage via public user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Hanyang Yuan , Jiarong Xu , Cong Wang , Ziqi Yang , Chunping Wang , Keting Yin , Yang Yang

In matrix factorization, available graph side-information may not be well suited for the matrix completion problem, having edges that disagree with the latent-feature relations learnt from the incomplete data matrix. We show that removing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jonathan Strahl , Jaakko Peltonen , Hiroshi Mamitsuka , Samuel Kaski

In this paper, we study the problem of early detection of fake user accounts on social networks based solely on their network connectivity with other users. Removing such accounts is a core task for maintaining the integrity of social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Adam Breuer , Roee Eilat , Udi Weinsberg

Graph embedding is essential for graph mining tasks. With the prevalence of graph data in real-world applications, many methods have been proposed in recent years to learn high-quality graph embedding vectors various types of graphs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Jianxin Li , Xingcheng Fu , Hao Peng , Senzhang Wang , Shijie Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Philip S. Yu , Lifang He

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

Network inference is the process of deciding what is the true unknown graph underlying a set of interactions between nodes. There is a vast literature on the subject, but most known methods have an important drawback: the inferred graph is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Effrosyni Papanastasiou , Anastasios Giovanidis

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 data, such as chemical networks and social networks, may be deemed confidential/private because the data owner often spends lots of resources collecting the data or the data contains sensitive information, e.g., social relationships.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Xinlei He , Jinyuan Jia , Michael Backes , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yang Zhang

Anonymization of graph-based data is a problem which has been widely studied over the last years and several anonymization methods have been developed. Information loss measures have been used to evaluate data utility and information loss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Jordi Casas-Roma

Probabilistic graphs are an abstraction that allow us to study randomized propagation in graphs. In a probabilistic graph, each edge is "active" with a certain probability, independent of the other edges. For two vertices $u,v$, a classic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Aditya Bhaskara , Alex Crane , Shweta Jain , Md Mumtahin Habib Ullah Mazumder , Blair D. Sullivan , Prasanth Yalamanchili

Graph unlearning methods aim to efficiently remove the impact of sensitive data from trained GNNs without full retraining, assuming that deleted information cannot be recovered. In this work, we challenge this assumption by introducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Xiaorui Liu , Suhang Wang

Desirable random graph models (RGMs) should (i) reproduce common patterns in real-world graphs (e.g., power-law degrees, small diameters, and high clustering), (ii) generate variable (i.e., not overly similar) graphs, and (iii) remain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Fanchen Bu , Ruochen Yang , Paul Bogdan , Kijung Shin

The graph-theoretical task of determining most likely inter-community edges based on disconnected subgraphs' intra-community connectivity is proposed. An algorithm is developed for this edge augmentation task, based on elevating the zero…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Tianyi Li

Many applications, including provenance and some analyses of social networks, require path-based queries over graph-structured data. When these graphs contain sensitive information, paths may be broken, resulting in uninformative query…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-06-20 Barbara Blaustein , Adriane Chapman , Len Seligman , M. David Allen , Arnon Rosenthal

In general, anomaly detection is the problem of distinguishing between normal data samples with well defined patterns or signatures and those that do not conform to the expected profiles. Financial transactions, customer reviews, social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Paul Irofti , Andrei Patrascu , Andra Baltoiu