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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

Online users are typically active on multiple social media networks (SMNs), which constitute a multiplex social network. It is becoming increasingly challenging to determine whether given accounts on different SMNs belong to the same user;…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-11-10 Rui Tang , Zhenxiong Miao , Shuyu Jiang , Xingshu Chen , Haizhou Wang , Wei Wang

User identity linkage is a task of recognizing the identities of the same user across different social networks (SN). Previous works tackle this problem via estimating the pairwise similarity between identities from different SN, predicting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Xiaoxue Li , Yanan Cao , Yanmin Shang , Yangxi Li , Yanbing Liu , Jianlong Tan

For the modern world where data is becoming one of the most valuable assets, robust data privacy policies rooted in the fundamental infrastructure of networks and applications are becoming an even bigger necessity to secure sensitive user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Anudit Nagar

Data Distribution Service (DDS) is an innovative approach towards communication in ICS/IoT infrastructure and robotics. Being based on the cross-platform and cross-language API to be applicable in any computerised device, it offers the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Stanislav Abaimov

With the rapid growth of Internet technologies, cloud computing and social networks have become ubiquitous. An increasing number of people participate in social networks and massive online social data are obtained. In order to exploit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Chencheng Li , Pan Zhou , Yingxue Zhou , Kaigui Bian , Tao Jiang , Susanto Rahardja

The concern regarding users' data privacy has risen to its highest level due to the massive increase in communication platforms, social networking sites, and greater users' participation in online public discourse. An increasing number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 A K M Nuhil Mehdy , Hoda Mehrpouyan

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a pivotal approach for safeguarding individual privacy in data analysis, yet its practical adoption is often hindered by challenges in the implementation and communication of DP. This paper presents…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Onyinye Dibia , Prianka Bhattacharjee , Brad Stenger , Steven Baldasty , Mako Bates , Ivoline C. Ngong , Yuanyuan Feng , Joseph P. Near

Differential privacy is a rigorous definition for privacy that guarantees that any analysis performed on a sensitive dataset leaks no information about the individuals whose data are contained therein. In this work, we develop new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Vassilis Digalakis , George N. Karystinos , Minos N. Garofalakis

The massive collection of personal data by personalization systems has rendered the preservation of privacy of individuals more and more difficult. Most of the proposed approaches to preserve privacy in personalization systems usually…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Mohammad Alaggan , Sébastien Gambs , Anne-Marie Kermarrec

Recommender systems have become prosperous nowadays, designed to predict users' potential interests in items by learning embeddings. Recent developments of the Graph Neural Networks~(GNNs) also provide recommender systems with powerful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Zhiwei Liu , Liangwei Yang , Ziwei Fan , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Information network analysis has drawn a lot attention in recent years. Among all the aspects of network analysis, similarity measure of nodes has been shown useful in many applications, such as clustering, link prediction and community…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-10-02 Yu-Wei Chu , Chih-Hua Tai , Ming-Syan Chen , Philip S. Yu

Differentially Private Federated Learning (DP-FL) has garnered attention as a collaborative machine learning approach that ensures formal privacy. Most DP-FL approaches ensure DP at the record-level within each silo for cross-silo FL.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Fumiyuki Kato , Li Xiong , Shun Takagi , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

In modern datasets, where single records can have multiple owners, enforcing user-level differential privacy requires capping each user's total contribution. This "contribution bounding" becomes a significant combinatorial challenge.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Vincent Cohen-Addad , Alessandro Epasto , Jason Lee , Morteza Zadimoghaddam

Anomalous users detection in social network is an imperative task for security problems. Motivated by the great power of Graph Neural Networks(GNNs), many current researches adopt GNN-based detectors to reveal the anomalous users. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yangyang Li , Yipeng Ji , Shaoning Li , Shulong He , Yinhao Cao , Xiong Li , Jun Shi , Yangchao Yang , Yifeng Liu

Social network alignment shows fundamental importance in a wide spectrum of applications. To the best of our knowledge, existing studies mainly focus on network alignment at the individual user level, requiring abundant common information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Li Sun , Zhongbao Zhang , Jiawei Zhang , Feiyang Wang , Yang Du , Sen Su , Philip S. Yu

Differential privacy (DP) is a privacy-enhancement technology (PET) that receives prominent attention from the academia, industry, and government. One main development over the past decade has been the decentralization of DP, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Zhou Li , Yu Zheng , Tianhao Wang , Sang-Woo Jun

Signed networks are frequently observed in real life with additional sign information associated with each edge, yet such information has been largely ignored in existing network models. This paper develops a unified embedding model for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoran Zhang , Junhui Wang

Learning with relational and network-structured data is increasingly vital in sensitive domains where protecting the privacy of individual entities is paramount. Differential Privacy (DP) offers a principled approach for quantifying privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yinan Huang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Rongzhe Wei , Pan Li

In this work, we propose a profile matching (or deanonymization) attack for unstructured online social networks (OSNs) in which similarity in graphical structure cannot be used for profile matching. We consider different attributes that are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Anisa Halimi , Erman Ayday