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Generative adversarial network (GAN) has attracted increasing attention recently owing to its impressive ability to generate realistic samples with high privacy protection. Without directly interactive with training examples, the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Bo Liu , Kang Wei , Jian Weng , H. Vincent Poor

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants have recently attracted intensive research interests due to their elegant theoretical foundation and excellent empirical performance as generative models. These tools provide a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-20 Liyang Xie , Kaixiang Lin , Shu Wang , Fei Wang , Jiayu Zhou

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

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a powerful architecture for representation learning on documents that naturally occur as graphs, e.g., citation or social networks. However, sensitive personal information, such as documents with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Timour Igamberdiev , Ivan Habernal

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

The application of differential privacy to the training of deep neural networks holds the promise of allowing large-scale (decentralized) use of sensitive data while providing rigorous privacy guarantees to the individual. The predominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Moritz Knolle , Dmitrii Usynin , Alexander Ziller , Marcus R. Makowski , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Differential privacy (DP) has been integrated into graph neural networks (GNNs) to protect sensitive structural information, e.g., edges, nodes, and associated features across various applications. A prominent approach is to perturb the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yu Zheng , Chenang Li , Zhou Li , Qingsong Wang

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

Currently, graph learning models are indispensable tools to help researchers explore graph-structured data. In academia, using sufficient training data to optimize a graph model on a single device is a typical approach for training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Haoran Yang , Xiangyu Zhao , Muyang Li , Hongxu Chen , Guandong Xu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in various graph-based machine learning tasks by effectively modeling high-order interactions between nodes. However, training GNNs without protection may leak sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wen Xu , Zhetao Li , Yong Xiao , Pengpeng Qiao , Mianxiong Dong , Kaoru Ota

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

Deep learning models are known to put the privacy of their training data at risk, which poses challenges for their safe and ethical release to the public. Differentially private stochastic gradient descent is the de facto standard for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Morgane Ayle , Jan Schuchardt , Lukas Gosch , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann

Graph embedding has become a powerful tool for learning latent representations of nodes in a graph. Despite its superior performance in various graph-based machine learning tasks, serious privacy concerns arise when the graph data contains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zening Li , Rong-Hua Li , Meihao Liao , Fusheng Jin , Guoren 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

Many data mining and analytical tasks rely on the abstraction of networks (graphs) to summarize relational structures among individuals (nodes). Since relational data are often sensitive, we aim to seek effective approaches to generate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Carl Yang , Haonan Wang , Ke Zhang , Liang Chen , Lichao Sun

With the increasing popularity of graph neural networks (GNNs) in several sensitive applications like healthcare and medicine, concerns have been raised over the privacy aspects of trained GNNs. More notably, GNNs are vulnerable to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Thorben Funke , Megha Khosla

Learning often involves sensitive data and as such, privacy preserving extensions to Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) and other machine learning algorithms have been developed using the definitions of Differential Privacy (DP). In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Friedrich Dörmann , Osvald Frisk , Lars Nørvang Andersen , Christian Fischer Pedersen

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

The skip-gram model (SGM), which employs a neural network to generate node vectors, serves as the basis for numerous popular graph embedding techniques. However, since the training datasets contain sensitive linkage information, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Sen Zhang , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Jianliang Xu