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Graph analysts cannot directly obtain the global structure in decentralized social networks, and analyzing such a network requires collecting local views of the social graph from individual users. Since the edges between users may reveal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Lele Zheng , Bowen Deng , Tao Zhang , Yulong Shen , Yang Cao

Concern about how to aggregate sensitive user data without compromising individual privacy is a major barrier to greater availability of data. The model of differential privacy has emerged as an accepted model to release sensitive…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Graham Cormode , Tejas Kulkarni , Divesh Srivastava

With the explosive growth of graph-structured data, graph databases have become a critical infrastructure for supporting large-scale and complex data analysis. Among various graph operations, shortest distance queries play a fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Xuemei Fu

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

Provenance analysis based on system audit data has emerged as a fundamental approach for investigating Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks. Due to the high concealment and long-term persistence of APT attacks, they are only represented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Qi Sheng

In order to prevent the disclosure of privacy-sensitive data, such as names and relations between users, social network graphs have to be anonymised before publication. Naive anonymisation of social network graphs often consists in deleting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz , Rolando Trujillo-Rasua

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success in various graph-based learning tasks. However, recent studies have raised concerns about fairness and privacy issues in GNNs, highlighting the potential for biased or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Bartlomiej Surma , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Releasing useful information from datasets with hierarchical structures while preserving individual privacy presents a significant challenge. Standard privacy-preserving mechanisms, and in particular Differential Privacy, often require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Joonhyuk Ko , Juba Ziani , Ferdinando Fioretto

The popularity of various social platforms has prompted more people to share their routine photos online. However, undesirable privacy leakages occur due to such online photo sharing behaviors. Advanced deep neural network (DNN) based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Mingfu Xue , Shichang Sun , Zhiyu Wu , Can He , Jian Wang , Weiqiang Liu

Personalized PageRank (PPR) is a fundamental tool in unsupervised learning of graph representations such as node ranking, labeling, and graph embedding. However, while data privacy is one of the most important recent concerns, existing PPR…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Alessandro Epasto , Vahab Mirrokni , Bryan Perozzi , Anton Tsitsulin , Peilin Zhong

Operators of online social networks are increasingly sharing potentially sensitive information about users and their relationships with advertisers, application developers, and data-mining researchers. Privacy is typically protected by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Arvind Narayanan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Directed hypergraphs are vital for modeling complex polyadic relationships in domains such as discrete mathematics, computer science, network security, and systems modeling. However, their inherent complexity often impedes effective…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Eric Parsonage , Matthew Roughan , Hung X Nguyen

Preserving privacy is an undeniable benefit to users online. However, this benefit (unfortunately) also extends to those who conduct cyber attacks and other types of malfeasance. In this work, we consider the scenario in which Privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Taylor Henderson , Eric Osterweil , Pavan Kumar Dinesh , Robert Simon

A graph neural network (GNN) is a type of neural network that is specifically designed to process graph-structured data. Typically, GNNs can be implemented in two settings, including the transductive setting and the inductive setting. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yixin Wu , Xinlei He , Pascal Berrang , Mathias Humbert , Michael Backes , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yang Zhang

In recent years, the fast rise in number of studies on graph neural network (GNN) has put it from the theories research to reality application stage. Despite the encouraging performance achieved by GNN, less attention has been paid to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Chuanqiang Shan , Huiyun Jiao , Jie Fu

Personal photos of individuals when shared online, apart from exhibiting a myriad of memorable details, also reveals a wide range of private information and potentially entails privacy risks (e.g., online harassment, tracking). To mitigate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Hui-Po Wang , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Hidden Markov model (HMM) has been well studied and extensively used. In this paper, we present DPHMM ({Differentially Private Hidden Markov Model}), an HMM embedded with a private data release mechanism, in which the privacy of the data is…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-30 Yonghui Xiao , Yilin Shen , Jinfei Liu , Li Xiong , Hongxia Jin , Xiaofeng Xu

The existing peer-to-peer networks have several problems such as fake content distribution, free riding, white-washing and poor search scalability, lack of a robust trust model and absence of user privacy protection mechanism. Although,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jaydip Sen

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

In recent years, with the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNN), more and more graph datasets have been published for GNN tasks. However, when an upstream data owner publishes graph data, there are often many privacy concerns,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Wanghan Xu , Bin Shi , Ao Liu , Jiqiang Zhang , Bo Dong