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With the growth of online social services, social information graphs are becoming increasingly complex. Privacy issues related to analyzing or publishing on social graphs are also becoming increasingly serious. Since the shortest paths play…

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Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

We give the first polynomial-time, differentially node-private, and robust algorithm for estimating the edge density of Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs and their generalization, inhomogeneous random graphs. We further prove…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Hongjie Chen , Jingqiu Ding , Yiding Hua , David Steurer

A canonical problem in graph mining is the detection of dense communities. This problem is exacerbated for a graph with a large order and size -- the number of vertices and edges -- as many community detection algorithms scale poorly. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Heng Wang , Da Zheng , Randal Burns , Carey Priebe

Edges in real-world graphs are typically formed by a variety of factors and carry diverse relation semantics. For example, connections in a social network could indicate friendship, being colleagues, or living in the same neighborhood.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Tianxiang Zhao , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

The connectivity structure of graphs is typically related to the attributes of the nodes. In social networks for example, the probability of a friendship between two people depends on their attributes, such as their age, address, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Junning Deng , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie

Detecting the source of a gossip is a critical issue, related to identifying patient zero in an epidemic, or the origin of a rumor in a social network. Although it is widely acknowledged that random and local gossip communications make…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Rachid Guerraoui , Anne-Marie Kermarrec , Anastasiia Kucherenko , Rafael Pinot , Sasha Voitovych

Utilizing the concept of observability, in conjunction with tools from graph theory and optimization, this paper develops an algorithm for network synthesis with privacy guarantees. In particular, we propose an algorithm for the selection…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Atiye Alaeddini , Kristi Morgansen , Mehran Mesbahi

Graph unlearning emerges as a crucial advancement in the pursuit of responsible AI, providing the means to remove sensitive data traces from trained models, thereby upholding the \textit{right to be forgotten}. It is evident that graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Anwar Said , Ngoc N. Tran , Yuying Zhao , Tyler Derr , Mudassir Shabbir , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) are a powerful representation of linked data, offering flexibility, semantic richness, and support for knowledge enrichment and reasoning. They help data owners organize and exploit heterogeneous data to provide…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yasmine Hayder

Online social network services provide a platform for human social interactions. Nowadays, many kinds of online interactions generate large-scale social network data. Network analysis helps to mine knowledge and pattern from the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Andry Alamsyah , Yahya Peranginangin , Intan Muchtadi-Alamsyah , Budi Rahardjo , Kuspriyanto

With the recent surge of social networks like Facebook, new forms of recommendations have become possible - personalized recommendations of ads, content, and even new friend and product connections based on one's social interactions. Since…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-05-24 Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Aleksandra Korolova , Atish Das Sarma

This paper studies the problem of detecting anomalous graphs using a machine learning model trained on only normal graphs, which has many applications in molecule, biology, and social network data analysis. We present a self-discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jinyu Cai , Yunhe Zhang , Jicong Fan

Given a network with attributed edges, how can we identify anomalous behavior? Networks with edge attributes are commonplace in the real world. For example, edges in e-commerce networks often indicate how users rated products and services…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Neil Shah , Alex Beutel , Bryan Hooi , Leman Akoglu , Stephan Gunnemann , Disha Makhija , Mohit Kumar , Christos Faloutsos

Spreading processes on graphs are a natural model for a wide variety of real-world phenomena, including information spread over social networks and biological diseases spreading over contact networks. Often, the networks over which these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Jessica Enright , Kitty Meeks , George B. Mertzios , Viktor Zamaraev

Uncertain, or probabilistic, graphs have been increasingly used to represent noisy linked data in many emerging applications, and have recently attracted the attention of the database research community. A fundamental problem on uncertain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Xiangyu Ke , Arijit Khan , Leroy Lim Hong Quan

Following the trend of data trading and data publishing, many online social networks have enabled potentially sensitive data to be exchanged or shared on the web. As a result, users' privacy could be exposed to malicious third parties since…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jianwei Qian , Xiang-Yang Li , Yu Wang , Shaojie Tang , Taeho Jung , Yang Fan

Online social media is integral to human life, facilitating messaging, information sharing, and confidential communication while preserving privacy. Platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook exemplify this phenomenon. However, users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jinus Bordbar , Mohammadreza Mohammadrezaie , Saman Ardalan , Mohammad Ebrahim Shiri

A graph-based sampling and consensus (GraphSAC) approach is introduced to effectively detect anomalous nodes in large-scale graphs. Existing approaches rely on connectivity and attributes of all nodes to assign an anomaly score per node.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Publishing graph data is widely desired to enable a variety of structural analyses and downstream tasks. However, it also potentially poses severe privacy leakage, as attackers may leverage the released graph data to launch attacks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yucheng Wu , Yuncong Yang , Xiao Han , Leye Wang , Junjie Wu