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We propose an algorithm for counting below-threshold triangles in weighted graphs under local weight differential privacy. While prior work has largely focused on unweighted graphs, edge weights are intrinsic to many real-world networks. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kevin Pfisterer , Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

Decentralized optimization is increasingly popular in machine learning for its scalability and efficiency. Intuitively, it should also provide better privacy guarantees, as nodes only observe the messages sent by their neighbors in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Edwige Cyffers , Mathieu Even , Aurélien Bellet , Laurent Massoulié

In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for differential privacy over affine manifolds and validate its usefulness in the contexts of differentially private cloud-based control and average consensus. We consider differential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-22 Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Deming Yuan , Guodong Shi

In this work, we study the applications of differential privacy (DP) in the context of graph-structured data. We discuss the formulations of DP applicable to the publication of graphs and their associated statistics as well as machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Tamara T. Mueller , Dmitrii Usynin , Johannes C. Paetzold , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Data collected nowadays by social-networking applications create fascinating opportunities for building novel services, as well as expanding our understanding about social structures and their dynamics. Unfortunately, publishing…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Paolo Boldi , Francesco Bonchi , Aris Gionis , Tamir Tassa

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

We consider differentially private range queries on a graph where query ranges are defined as the set of edges on a shortest path of the graph. Edges in the graph carry sensitive attributes and the goal is to report the sum of these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Jalaj Upadhyay , Chen Wang

Blowfish privacy is a recent generalisation of differential privacy that enables improved utility while maintaining privacy policies with semantic guarantees, a factor that has driven the popularity of differential privacy in computer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Tobias Edwards , Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein , Zuhe Zhang , Sanming Zhou

Recently, the surge in popularity of Internet of Things (IoT), mobile devices, social media, etc. has opened up a large source for graph data. Graph embedding has been proved extremely useful to learn low-dimensional feature representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Kaiyang Li , Guangchun Luo , Yang Ye , Wei Li , Shihao Ji , Zhipeng Cai

In graph machine learning, data collection, sharing, and analysis often involve multiple parties, each of which may require varying levels of data security and privacy. To this end, preserving privacy is of great importance in protecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Dongqi Fu , Wenxuan Bao , Ross Maciejewski , Hanghang Tong , Jingrui He

Differential Privacy protects individuals' data when statistical queries are published from aggregated databases: applying "obfuscating" mechanisms to the query results makes the released information less specific but, unavoidably, also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Natasha Fernandes , Annabelle McIver , Carroll Morgan

Differential privacy (DP) has seen immense applications in learning on tabular, image, and sequential data where instance-level privacy is concerned. In learning on graphs, contrastingly, works on node-level privacy are highly sparse.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Di Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with differential privacy have been proposed to preserve graph privacy when nodes represent personal and sensitive information. However, the existing methods ignore that nodes with different importance may yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yuxin Qi , Xi Lin , Jun Wu

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

Machine learned models trained on organizational communication data, such as emails in an enterprise, carry unique risks of breaching confidentiality, even if the model is intended only for internal use. This work shows how confidentiality…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Masoumeh Shafieinejad , Huseyin Inan , Marcello Hasegawa , Robert Sim

We study the privatization of distributed learning and optimization strategies. We focus on differential privacy schemes and study their effect on performance. We show that the popular additive random perturbation scheme degrades…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

Differential Privacy is the gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. This paper addresses the challenge of producing a differentially edge-private vertex coloring. In this paper, we present two novel algorithms to approach this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michael Xie , Jiayi Wu , Dung Nguyen , Aravind Srinivasan

Anonymous social networks present a number of new and challenging problems for existing Social Network Analysis techniques. Traditionally, existing methods for analysing graph structure, such as community detection, required global…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Alvaro Garcia-Recuero

We study differential privacy (DP) in a multi-party setting where each party only trusts a (known) subset of the other parties with its data. Specifically, given a trust graph where vertices correspond to parties and neighbors are mutually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Serena Wang

Signed graphs with positive and negative edges can model complex relationships in social networks. Leveraging on balance theory that deduces edge signs from multi-hop node pairs, signed graph learning can generate node embeddings that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Haobin Ke , Sen Zhang , Qingqing Ye , Xun Ran , Haibo Hu