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Privacy and interpretability are two important ingredients for achieving trustworthy machine learning. We study the interplay of these two aspects in graph machine learning through graph reconstruction attacks. The goal of the adversary…

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

Detecting intrusions in network traffic is a challenging task, particularly under limited supervision and constantly evolving attack patterns. While recent works have leveraged graph neural networks for network intrusion detection, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Lorenzo Guerra , Thomas Chapuis , Guillaume Duc , Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Van-Tam Nguyen

Graph analysts cannot directly obtain the global structure in decentralized social networks, and analyzing such a network requires collecting local views of the social graph from individual users. Since the edges between users may reveal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Lele Zheng , Bowen Deng , Tao Zhang , Yulong Shen , Yang Cao

We study the problem of learning representations that are private yet informative, i.e., provide information about intended "ally" targets while hiding sensitive "adversary" attributes. We propose Exclusion-Inclusion Generative Adversarial…

Graph autoencoders (AE) and variational autoencoders (VAE) recently emerged as powerful node embedding methods, with promising performances on challenging tasks such as link prediction and node clustering. Graph AE, VAE and most of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Guillaume Salha , Romain Hennequin , Michalis Vazirgiannis

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

Electronic Health Records (EHR) are high-dimensional data with implicit connections among thousands of medical concepts. These connections, for instance, the co-occurrence of diseases and lab-disease correlations can be informative when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Weicheng Zhu , Narges Razavian

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

This paper studies how to learn variational autoencoders with a variety of divergences under differential privacy constraints. We often build a VAE with an appropriate prior distribution to describe the desired properties of the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Tsubasa Takahashi , Shun Takagi , Hajime Ono , Tatsuya Komatsu

Federated learning (FL) can be essential in knowledge representation, reasoning, and data mining applications over multi-source knowledge graphs (KGs). A recent study FedE first proposes an FL framework that shares entity embeddings of KGs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Kai Zhang , Yu Wang , Hongyi Wang , Lifu Huang , Carl Yang , Xun Chen , Lichao Sun

Federated Knowledge Graph Embedding (FKGE) has recently garnered considerable interest due to its capacity to extract expressive representations from distributed knowledge graphs, while concurrently safeguarding the privacy of individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xiaoxiong Zhang , Zhiwei Zeng , Xin Zhou , Dusit Niyato , Zhiqi Shen

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

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 network (GNN) is a powerful tool for analyzing graph-structured data. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks raises serious concerns, especially when dealing with sensitive information. Local Differential Privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Matta Varun , Ajay Kumar Dhakar , Yuan Hong , Shamik Sural

Graph Representation Learning (GRL) is a fundamental task in machine learning, aiming to encode high-dimensional graph-structured data into low-dimensional vectors. Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods are widely used in GRL because they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shifeng Xie , Aref Einizade , Jhony H. Giraldo

Research on graph representation learning has received a lot of attention in recent years since many data in real-world applications come in form of graphs. High-dimensional graph data are often in irregular form, which makes them more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Fenxiao Chen , Yuncheng Wang , Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Local differential privacy is a powerful method for privacy-preserving data collection. In this paper, we develop a framework for training Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on differentially privatized data. We show that entropic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Daria Reshetova , Wei-Ning Chen , Ayfer Özgür

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

Link Prediction (LP) is a crucial problem in graph-structured data. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained prominence in LP, with Graph AutoEncoders (GAEs) being a notable representation. However, our empirical findings reveal that GAEs'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yunhui Liu , Huaisong Zhang , Xinyi Gao , Liuye Guo , Zhen Tao , Tieke He

Graph embedding provides an efficient solution for graph analysis by converting the graph into a low-dimensional space which preserves the structure information. In contrast to the graph structure data, the i.i.d. node embedding can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Hongyun Cai , Vincent W. Zheng , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang