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Graph data is used in a wide range of applications, while analyzing graph data without protection is prone to privacy breach risks. To mitigate the privacy risks, we resort to the standard technique of differential privacy to publish a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Quan Yuan , Zhikun Zhang , Linkang Du , Min Chen , Peng Cheng , Mingyang Sun

We consider the problem of generating private synthetic versions of real-world graphs containing private information while maintaining the utility of generated graphs. Differential privacy is a gold standard for data privacy, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Xu Zheng , Nicholas McCarthy , Jer Hayes

Social networks are considered to be heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) with deep learning technological advances. HGNNs, compared to homogeneous data, absorb various aspects of information about individuals in the training stage.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuecen Wei , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Hao Peng , Jia Wu , Jinyan Wang , Xianxian Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant attraction due to their expansive real-world applications. To build trustworthy GNNs, two aspects - fairness and privacy - have emerged as critical considerations. Previous studies have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-21 He Zhang , Xingliang Yuan , Shirui Pan

Publishing open graph data while preserving individual privacy remains challenging when data publishers and data users are distinct entities. Although differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous guarantees, most existing approaches enforce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Muhao Guo , Jiaqi Wu , Yizheng Liao , Wenke Lee , Shengzhe Chen , Yang Weng

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

We study the generation of dependent random numbers in a distributed fashion in order to enable privatized distributed learning by networked agents. We propose a method that we refer to as local graph-homomorphic processing; it relies on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Elsa Rizk , Stefan Vlaski , Ali H. Sayed

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

The public sharing of user information opens the door for adversaries to infer private data, leading to privacy breaches and facilitating malicious activities. While numerous studies have concentrated on privacy leakage via public user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Hanyang Yuan , Jiarong Xu , Cong Wang , Ziqi Yang , Chunping Wang , Keting Yin , Yang Yang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on relational data, but real-world graphs are often distributed across organizations that cannot share raw data due to privacy and policy constraints. Existing federated GNN methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhishuai Guo , Wenhan Wu , Chen Chen , Lei Zhang , Olivera Kotevska , Ravi K Madduri

Classification tasks on labeled graph-structured data have many important applications ranging from social recommendation to financial modeling. Deep neural networks are increasingly being used for node classification on graphs, wherein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Aashish Kolluri , Teodora Baluta , Bryan Hooi , Prateek Saxena

The rapid growth of computer systems which generate graph data necessitates employing privacy-preserving mechanisms to protect users' identity. Since structure-based de-anonymization attacks can reveal users' identity's even when the graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Nazanin Takbiri , Xiaozhe Shao , Lixin Gao , Hossein Pishro-Nik

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have established themselves as the state-of-the-art models for many machine learning applications such as the analysis of social networks, protein interactions and molecules. Several among these datasets contain…

We explore the edge-flipping mechanism, a type of input perturbation, to release the directed graph under edge-local differential privacy. By using the noisy bi-degree sequence from the output graph, we construct the moment equations to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Xueying Sun , Ting Yan , Binyan Jiang

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…

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Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN) has achieved remarkable progresses in various real-world tasks on graph data, consisting of node features and the adjacent information between different nodes. High-performance GNN models always depend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Chaochao Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Zheng , Huiwen Wu , Lingjuan Lyu , Jia Wu , Bingzhe Wu , Ziqi Liu , Li Wang , Xiaolin Zheng

We study how to communicate findings of Bayesian inference to third parties, while preserving the strong guarantee of differential privacy. Our main contributions are four different algorithms for private Bayesian inference on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-23 Zuhe Zhang , Benjamin Rubinstein , Christos Dimitrakakis

There is an increasing demand to make data "open" to third parties, as data sharing has great benefits in data-driven decision making. However, with a wide variety of sensitive data collected, protecting privacy of individuals, communities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-19 David B. Smith , Kanchana Thilakarathna , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Numerical linear algebra plays an important role in computer science. In this paper, we initiate the study of performing linear algebraic tasks while preserving privacy when the data is streamed online. Our main focus is the space…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Jalaj Upadhyay

The objective of privacy-preserving synthetic graph publishing is to safeguard individuals' privacy while retaining the utility of original data. Most existing methods focus on graph neural networks under differential privacy (DP), and yet…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Sen Zhang , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Jianliang Xu