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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

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable progress in various real-world applications, especially when abundant training data are provided. However, data isolation has become a serious problem currently. Existing works build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Jun Zhou , Longfei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Yan Wang , Xiaolin Zheng , Bingzhe Wu , Cen Chen , Li Wang , Jianwei Yin

With increasing concerns about privacy attacks and potential sensitive information leakage, researchers have actively explored methods to efficiently remove sensitive training data and reduce privacy risks in graph neural network (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Faqian Guan , Tianqing Zhu , Zhoutian Wang , Wei Ren , Wanlei Zhou

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

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained an increasing amount of popularity due to their superior capability in learning node embeddings for various graph inference tasks, but training them can raise privacy concerns. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Xiaochen Zhu , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Xiaokui Xiao

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

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

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are susceptible to privacy inference attacks (PIAs), given their ability to learn joint representation from features and edges among nodes in graph data. To prevent privacy leakages in GNNs, we propose a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Khang Tran , Phung Lai , NhatHai Phan , Issa Khalil , Yao Ma , Abdallah Khreishah , My Thai , Xintao Wu

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

In this paper, we present a stealthy and effective attack that exposes privacy vulnerabilities in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by inferring private links within graph-structured data. Focusing on the inductive setting where new nodes join…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Oualid Zari , Javier Parra-Arnau , Ayşe Ünsal , Melek Önen

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

This paper addresses the problem of protecting network information from privacy system identification (SI) attacks when sharing cyber-physical system simulations. We model analyst observations of networked states as time-series outputs of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Andrew Campbell , Anna Scaglione , Hang Liu , Victor Elvira , Sean Peisert , Daniel Arnold

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

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

Deep Neural Network (DNN) has been showing great potential in kinds of real-world applications such as fraud detection and distress prediction. Meanwhile, data isolation has become a serious problem currently, i.e., different parties cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Longfei Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Yingting Liu , Bingzhe Wu , Xibin Wu , Li Wang , Lei Wang , Jun Zhou , Shuang Yang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are a popular machine learning model with a wide range of applications in graph analytics, including healthcare, transportation, and finance. However, a GCN trained without privacy protection measures may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jianxin Wei , Yizheng Zhu , Xiaokui Xiao , Ergute Bao , Yin Yang , Kuntai Cai , Beng Chin Ooi

Differential privacy is a well-established framework for safeguarding sensitive information in data. While extensively applied across various domains, its application to network data -- particularly at the node level -- remains…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-06 Suqing Liu , Xuan Bi , Tianxi Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful models for learning from graph-structured data. However, their widespread adoption has raised serious privacy concerns. While prior research has primarily focused on edge-level privacy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jie Fu , Yuan Hong , Zhili Chen , Wendy Hui Wang