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With the introduction of large-scale network data, including population-scale social networks, techniques for privacy-aware sharing of network data become increasingly important. While existing $k$-anonymity approaches can model different…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

The ability to share social network data at the level of individual connections is beneficial to science: not only for reproducing results, but also for researchers who may wish to use it for purposes not foreseen by the data releaser.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Daniele Romanini , Sune Lehmann , Mikko Kivelä

Decentralized Gradient Descent (D-GD) allows a set of users to perform collaborative learning without sharing their data by iteratively averaging local model updates with their neighbors in a network graph. The absence of direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Abdellah El Mrini , Edwige Cyffers , Aurélien Bellet

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great potential in addressing various graph structure-related downstream tasks. However, recent studies have found that current GNNs are susceptible to malicious adversarial attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Junyuan Fang , Huimin Liu , Han Yang , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

Despite the success of graph neural networks (GNNs) in various domains, they exhibit susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Understanding these vulnerabilities is crucial for developing robust and secure applications. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Dibaloke Chanda , Saba Heidari Gheshlaghi , Nasim Yahya Soltani

Real-world graph applications, such as advertisements and product recommendations make profits based on accurately classify the label of the nodes. However, in such scenarios, there are high incentives for the adversaries to attack such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Yiwei Sun , Suhang Wang , Xianfeng Tang , Tsung-Yu Hsieh , Vasant Honavar

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved notable success in tasks such as social and transportation networks. However, recent studies have highlighted the vulnerability of GNNs to backdoor attacks, raising significant concerns about their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chang Liu , Hai Huang , Yujie Xing , Xingquan Zuo

We introduce a new notion of neighboring databases for coverage problems such as Max Cover and Set Cover under differential privacy. In contrast to the standard privacy notion for these problems, which is analogous to node-privacy in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Laxman Dhulipala , George Z. Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful in learning rich network representations that aid the performance of downstream tasks. However, recent studies showed that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks involving node injection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Ansh Kumar Sharma , Rahul Kukreja , Mayank Kharbanda , Tanmoy Chakraborty

Paths in a given network are a generalised form of time-serial chains in many real-world applications, such as trajectories and Internet flows. Differentially private trajectory publishing concerns publishing path information that is usable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Zhigang Lu , Hong Shen

Differentially private GNNs (Graph Neural Networks) have been recently studied to provide high accuracy in various tasks on graph data while strongly protecting user privacy. In particular, a recent study proposes an algorithm to protect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Seira Hidano , Takao Murakami

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a popular technique for modelling graph-structured data and computing node-level representations via aggregation of information from the neighborhood of each node. However, this aggregation implies an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ameya Daigavane , Gagan Madan , Aditya Sinha , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta , Gaurav Aggarwal , Prateek Jain

The rise of massive networks across diverse domains necessitates sophisticated graph analytics, often involving sensitive data and raising privacy concerns. This paper addresses these challenges using local differential privacy (LDP), which…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Pranay Mundra , Charalampos Papamanthou , Julian Shun , Quanquan C. Liu

Differential privacy is a well-established framework for safeguarding sensitive information in data. While extensively applied across various domains, its application to network data -- particularly at the node level -- remains…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Suqing Liu , Xuan Bi , Tianxi Li

As machine learning becomes more widely used for critical applications, the need to study its implications in privacy turns to be urgent. Given access to the target model and auxiliary information, the model inversion attack aims to infer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Zhenya Huang , Hao Wang , Chengqiang Lu , Chuanren Liu , Enhong Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results in tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing a significant threat to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zhiwei Zhang , Minhua Lin , Junjie Xu , Zongyu Wu , Enyan Dai , Suhang Wang

Anonymized social network graphs published for academic or advertisement purposes are subject to de-anonymization attacks by leveraging side information in the form of a second, public social network graph correlated with the anonymized…

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

Graphs are commonly used to model complex networks prevalent in modern social media and literacy applications. Our research investigates the vulnerability of these graphs through the application of feature based adversarial attacks,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ying Xu , Michael Lanier , Anindya Sarkar , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

Graph neural network (GNN) is a powerful tool for analyzing graph-structured data. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks raises serious concerns, especially when dealing with sensitive information. Local Differential Privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Matta Varun , Ajay Kumar Dhakar , Yuan Hong , Shamik Sural

Although powerful graph neural networks (GNNs) have boosted numerous real-world applications, the potential privacy risk is still underexplored. To close this gap, we perform the first comprehensive study of graph reconstruction attack that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhanke Zhou , Chenyu Zhou , Xuan Li , Jiangchao Yao , Quanming Yao , Bo Han