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Differentially private algorithms protect individuals in data analysis scenarios by ensuring that there is only a weak correlation between the existence of the user in the data and the result of the analysis. Dynamic graph algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Monika Henzinger , Lara Ost

Building a graph neural network (GNN)-based recommender system without violating user privacy proves challenging. Existing methods can be divided into federated GNNs and decentralized GNNs. But both methods have undesirable effects, i.e.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Xiaolin Zheng , Zhongyu Wang , Chaochao Chen , Jiashu Qian , Yao Yang

Differential privacy (DP) has been widely adopted to protect sensitive information in graph analytics. While edge-DP, which protects privacy at the edge level, has been extensively studied, node-DP, offering stronger protection for entire…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yihua Hu , Hao Ding , Wei Dong

Motivated by settings in which predictive models may be required to be non-discriminatory with respect to certain attributes (such as race), but even collecting the sensitive attribute may be forbidden or restricted, we initiate the study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Matthew Jagielski , Michael Kearns , Jieming Mao , Alina Oprea , Aaron Roth , Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi , Jonathan Ullman

Discovering frequent graph patterns in a graph database offers valuable information in a variety of applications. However, if the graph dataset contains sensitive data of individuals such as mobile phone-call graphs and web-click graphs,…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Entong Shen , Ting Yu

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

Differential privacy (DP) is a gold-standard concept of measuring and guaranteeing privacy in data analysis. It is well-known that the cost of adding DP to deep learning model is its accuracy. However, it remains unclear how it affects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Nurislam Tursynbek , Aleksandr Petiushko , Ivan Oseledets

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

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are designed to use attributed graphs to learn representations. Such representations are beneficial in the unsupervised learning of clusters and community detection. Nonetheless, such inference may reveal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Dalyapraz Manatova , Pablo Moriano , L. Jean Camp

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent with Gradient Clipping (DPSGD-GC) is a powerful tool for training deep learning models using sensitive data, providing both a solid theoretical privacy guarantee and high efficiency.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xinwei Zhang , Zhiqi Bu , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Mingyi Hong

Graph clustering under the framework of differential privacy, which aims to process graph-structured data while protecting individual privacy, has been receiving increasing attention. Despite significant achievements in current research,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Haochen You , Baojing Liu

The ''Propose-Test-Release'' (PTR) framework is a classic recipe for designing differentially private (DP) algorithms that are data-adaptive, i.e. those that add less noise when the input dataset is nice. We extend PTR to a more general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Rachel Redberg , Yuqing Zhu , Yu-Xiang Wang

Developing a differentially private deep learning algorithm is challenging, due to the difficulty in analyzing the sensitivity of objective functions that are typically used to train deep neural networks. Many existing methods resort to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Frederik Harder , Jonas Köhler , Max Welling , Mijung Park

Graph transformer has been proven as an effective graph learning method for its adoption of attention mechanism that is capable of capturing expressive representations from complex topological and feature information of graphs. Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Dongqi Fu , Zhigang Hua , Yan Xie , Jin Fang , Si Zhang , Kaan Sancak , Hao Wu , Andrey Malevich , Jingrui He , Bo Long

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) combine node attributes over a fixed granularity of the local graph structure around a node to predict its label. However, different nodes may relate to a node-level property with a different granularity of its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Kartik Sharma , Vineeth Rakesh , Yingtong Dou , Srijan Kumar , Mahashweta Das

The application of graph analytics to various domains has yielded tremendous societal and economical benefits in recent years. However, the increasingly widespread adoption of graph analytics comes with a commensurate increase in the need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yang Li , Michael Purcell , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , David Smith , Thilina Ranbaduge , Kee Siong Ng

Graph learning has a wide range of applications in many scenarios, which require more need for data privacy. Federated learning is an emerging distributed machine learning approach that leverages data from individual devices or data centers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Peilin Liu , Yanni Tang , Mingyue Zhang , Wu Chen

Efficient computation of node proximity queries such as transition probabilities, Personalized PageRank, and Katz are of fundamental importance in various graph mining and learning tasks. In particular, several recent works leverage fast…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Hanzhi Wang , Mingguo He , Zhewei Wei , Sibo Wang , Ye Yuan , Xiaoyong Du , Ji-Rong Wen

Ensuring differential privacy of models learned from sensitive user data is an important goal that has been studied extensively in recent years. It is now known that for some basic learning problems, especially those involving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-10 Cynthia Dwork , Vitaly Feldman