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In many online social networks (e.g., Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and Instagram), users prefer to hide her/his partial or all relationships, which makes such private relationships not visible to public users or even friends. This leads to a…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Xin Huang , Jiaxin Jiang , Byron Choi , Jianliang Xu , Zhiwei Zhang , Yunya Song

Data privacy is an important concern in learning, when datasets contain sensitive information about individuals. This paper considers consensus-based distributed optimization under data privacy constraints. Consensus-based optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Can Karakus , Suhas Diggavi

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

Cooperative decentralized learning relies on direct information exchange between communicating agents, each with access to locally available datasets. The goal is to agree on model parameters that are optimal over all data. However, sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jasmine Bayrooti , Zhan Gao , Amanda Prorok

We propose a novel framework to enable Knowledge Graphs (KGs) sharing while ensuring that information that should remain private is not directly released nor indirectly exposed via derived knowledge, maintaining at the same time the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Luigi Bellomarini , Costanza Catalano , Andrea Coletta , Michela Iezzi , Pierangela Samarati

With increasing frequency of high-profile privacy breaches in various online platforms, users are becoming more concerned about their privacy. And recommender system is the core component of online platforms for providing personalized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Wentao Hu , Hui Fang

We study the sublinear space continual release model for edge-differentially private (DP) graph algorithms, with a focus on the densest subgraph problem (DSG) in the insertion-only setting. Our main result is the first continual release DSG…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Felix Zhou

Community detection techniques are useful for social media platforms to discover tightly connected groups of users who share common interests. However, this functionality often comes at the expense of potentially exposing individuals to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Andrea Bernini , Fabrizio Silvestri , Gabriele Tolomei

In modern settings of data analysis, we may be running our algorithms on datasets that are sensitive in nature. However, classical machine learning and statistical algorithms were not designed with these risks in mind, and it has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Huanyu Zhang

Several companies (e.g., Meta, Google) have initiated "data-for-good" projects where aggregate location data are first sanitized and released publicly, which is useful to many applications in transportation, public health (e.g., COVID-19…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ritesh Ahuja , Sepanta Zeighami , Gabriel Ghinita , Cyrus Shahabi

We consider the problem of publicly releasing a dataset for support vector machine classification while not infringing on the privacy of data subjects (i.e., individuals whose private information is stored in the dataset). The dataset is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Farhad Farokhi

Releasing all pairwise shortest path (APSP) distances between vertices on general graphs under weight Differential Privacy (DP) is known as a challenging task. In the previous attempt of (Sealfon 2016}, by adding Laplace noise to each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li , Xiaoyun Li

In this paper, we design Top-DP, a novel solution to optimize the differential privacy protection of decentralized image classification systems. The key insight of our solution is to leverage the unique features of decentralized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Shangwei Guo , Tianwei Zhang , Guowen Xu , Han Yu , Tao Xiang , Yang Liu

In this paper, we tackle the problem of constructing a differentially private synopsis for the classification analyses. Several the state-of-the-art methods follow the structure of existing classification algorithms and are all iterative,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Dong Su , Jianneng Cao , Ninghui Li

It has been demonstrated that adversarial graphs, i.e., graphs with imperceptible perturbations added, can cause deep graph models to fail on node/graph classification tasks. In this paper, we extend adversarial graphs to the problem of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Jia Li , Honglei Zhang , Zhichao Han , Yu Rong , Hong Cheng , Junzhou Huang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are a popular machine learning model with a wide range of applications in graph analytics, including healthcare, transportation, and finance. However, a GCN trained without privacy protection measures may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jianxin Wei , Yizheng Zhu , Xiaokui Xiao , Ergute Bao , Yin Yang , Kuntai Cai , Beng Chin Ooi

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

To develop effective and efficient graph similarity learning (GSL) models, a series of data-driven neural algorithms have been proposed in recent years. Although GSL models are frequently deployed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, the user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Ji-Rong Wen

We propose methods to release and analyze synthetic graphs in order to protect privacy of individual relationships captured by the social network. Proposed techniques aim at fitting and estimating a wide class of exponential random graph…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2015-05-21 Vishesh Karwa , Aleksandra B. Slavković , Pavel Krivitsky

Preserving privacy of continuous and/or high-dimensional data such as images, videos and audios, can be challenging with syntactic anonymization methods which are designed for discrete attributes. Differential privacy, which provides a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-04 Jihun Hamm