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Graph structured data have enabled several successful applications such as recommendation systems and traffic prediction, given the rich node features and edges information. However, these high-dimensional features and high-order adjacency…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a popular tool for learning on graphs, but their widespread use raises privacy concerns as graph data can contain personal or sensitive information. Differentially private GNN models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sina Sajadmanesh , Daniel Gatica-Perez

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful in modeling graph-structured data. However, similar to other machine learning models, GNNs can exhibit bias in predictions based on attributes like race and gender. Moreover, bias in GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zengyi Wo , Chang Liu , Yumeng Wang , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many graph-based tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, many recent works have demonstrated that an attacker can mislead GNN models by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Binghui Wang , Youqi Li , Pan Zhou

Recent studies have revealed that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To defend against such attacks, robust graph structure refinement (GSR) methods aim at minimizing the effect of adversarial edges based on node features, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Kibum Kim , Kijung Shin , Chanyoung Park

In this work, we propose the first backdoor attack to graph neural networks (GNN). Specifically, we propose a \emph{subgraph based backdoor attack} to GNN for graph classification. In our backdoor attack, a GNN classifier predicts an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Zaixi Zhang , Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Adversarial attacks are allegedly unnoticeable. Prior studies have designed attack noticeability measures on graphs, primarily using statistical tests to compare the topology of original and (possibly) attacked graphs. However, we observe…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Hyeonsoo Jo , Hyunjin Hwang , Fanchen Bu , Soo Yong Lee , Chanyoung Park , Kijung Shin

The increasing popularity of social networks has initiated a fertile research area in information extraction and data mining. Anonymization of these social graphs is important to facilitate publishing these data sets for analysis by…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Sudipto Das , Omer Egecioglu , Amr El Abbadi

Graph embedding techniques are pivotal in real-world machine learning tasks that operate on graph-structured data, such as social recommendation and protein structure modeling. Embeddings are mostly performed on the node level for learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Nan Wang , Lu Lin , Jundong Li , Hongning Wang

Knowledge graph embedding (KGE) is a technique for learning continuous embeddings for entities and relations in the knowledge graph.Due to its benefit to a variety of downstream tasks such as knowledge graph completion, question answering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Hengtong Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Jing Gao , Chenglin Miao , Lu Su , Yaliang Li , Kui Ren

Before executing an attack, adversaries usually explore the victim's network in an attempt to infer the network topology and identify vulnerabilities in the victim's servers and personal computers. Falsifying the information collected by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Rami Puzis , Hadar Polad , Bracha Shapira

Social platforms such as Twitter are under siege from a multitude of fraudulent users. In response, social bot detection tasks have been developed to identify such fake users. Due to the structure of social networks, the majority of methods…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Lanjun Wang , Xinran Qiao , Yanwei Xie , Weizhi Nie , Yongdong Zhang , Anan Liu

As network data has become increasingly prevalent, a substantial amount of attention has been paid to the privacy issue in publishing network data. One of the critical challenges for data publishers is to preserve the topological structures…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-24 Yaoming Zhen , Shirong Xu , Junhui Wang

As one of the most well-studied cohesive subgraph models, the $k$-core is widely used to find graph nodes that are ``central'' or ``important'' in many applications, such as biological networks, social networks, ecological networks, and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Bin Guo , Emil Sekerinski , Lingyang Chu

For preserving privacy, blockchains can be equipped with dedicated mechanisms to anonymize participants. However, these mechanism often take only the abstraction layer of blockchains into account whereas observations of the underlying…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-31 David Mödinger , Henning Kopp , Frank Kargl , Franz J. Hauck

It is difficult for individuals and organizations to protect personal information without a fundamental understanding of relative privacy risks. By analyzing over 5,000 empirical identity theft and fraud cases, this research identifies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haoran Niu , K. Suzanne Barber

Differentially private algorithms allow large-scale data analytics while preserving user privacy. Designing such algorithms for graph data is gaining importance with the growth of large networks that model various (sensitive) relationships…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Laxman Dhulipala , Quanquan C. Liu , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Jessica Shi , Julian Shun , Shangdi Yu

Collaborative graph analysis across multiple institutions is becoming increasingly popular. Realistic examples include social network analysis across various social platforms, financial transaction analysis across multiple banks, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Shang Liu , Yang Cao , Takao Murakami , Weiran Liu , Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Jinfei Liu , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Federated learning has been spotlighted as a way to train neural networks using distributed data with no need for individual nodes to share data. Unfortunately, it has also been shown that adversaries may be able to extract local data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Beongjun Choi , Jy-yong Sohn , Dong-Jun Han , Jaekyun Moon

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to different tasks such as bioinformatics, drug design, and social networks. However, recent studies have shown that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks which aim to mislead the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xiaojun Xu , Yue Yu , Hanzhang Wang , Alok Lal , Carl A. Gunter , Bo Li