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We study the problem of releasing the weights of all-pair shortest paths in a weighted undirected graph with differential privacy (DP). In this setting, the underlying graph is fixed and two graphs are neighbors if their edge weights differ…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Jelani Nelson

We study the problem of releasing a differentially private (DP) synthetic graph $G'$ that well approximates the triangle-motif sizes of all cuts of any given graph $G$, where a motif in general refers to a frequently occurring subgraph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Pan Peng , Hangyu Xu

In this paper, we give an almost linear time and space algorithms to sample from an exponential mechanism with an $\ell_1$-score function defined over an exponentially large non-convex set. As a direct result, on input an $n$ vertex $m$…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jingcheng Liu , Jalaj Upadhyay , Zongrui Zou

The all-pairs shortest distances (APSD) with differential privacy (DP) problem takes as input an undirected, weighted graph $G = (V,E, \mathbf{w})$ and outputs a private estimate of the shortest distances in $G$ between all pairs of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Jesse Campbell , Chunjiang Zhu

We revisit the problem of privately releasing the all-pairs shortest path distances of a weighted undirected graph up to low additive error, which was first studied by Sealfon [Sea16]. In this paper, we improve significantly on Sealfon's…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Justin Y. Chen , Shyam Narayanan , Yinzhan Xu

We study differentially private algorithms for graph cut sparsification, a fundamental problem in algorithms, privacy, and machine learning. While significant progress has been made, the best-known private and efficient cut sparsifiers on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Anders Aamand , Justin Y. Chen , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Slobodan Mitrović , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Sandeep Silwal , Yinzhan Xu

We introduce a model for differentially private analysis of weighted graphs in which the graph topology $(V,E)$ is assumed to be public and the private information consists only of the edge weights $w:E\to\mathbb{R}^+$. This can express…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-21 Adam Sealfon

We design algorithms for fitting a high-dimensional statistical model to a large, sparse network without revealing sensitive information of individual members. Given a sparse input graph $G$, our algorithms output a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Christian Borgs , Jennifer T. Chayes , Adam Smith

The spectrum of a network or graph $G=(V,E)$ with adjacency matrix $A$, consists of the eigenvalues of the normalized Laplacian $L= I - D^{-1/2} A D^{-1/2}$. This set of eigenvalues encapsulates many aspects of the structure of the graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-06 David Cohen-Steiner , Weihao Kong , Christian Sohler , Gregory Valiant

Releasing all pairwise shortest path (APSP) distances between vertices on general graphs under weight Differential Privacy (DP) is known as a challenging task. In the previous attempt of (Sealfon 2016}, by adding Laplace noise to each edge…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Chenglin Fan , Ping Li , Xiaoyun Li

Differential Privacy is the gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. This paper addresses the challenge of producing a differentially edge-private vertex coloring. In this paper, we present two novel algorithms to approach this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michael Xie , Jiayi Wu , Dung Nguyen , Aravind Srinivasan

We design the first node-differentially private algorithm for approximating the number of connected components in a graph. Given a database representing an $n$-vertex graph $G$ and a privacy parameter $\varepsilon$, our algorithm runs in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Iden Kalemaj , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

We study the Densest Subgraph (DSG) problem under the additional constraint of differential privacy. DSG is a fundamental theoretical question which plays a central role in graph analytics, and so privacy is a natural requirement. All known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Michael Dinitz , Satyen Kale , Silvio Lattanzi , Sergei Vassilvitskii

We study the problem of approximating all-pair distances in a weighted undirected graph with differential privacy, introduced by Sealfon [Sea16]. Given a publicly known undirected graph, we treat the weights of edges as sensitive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Michael Dinitz , Chenglin Fan , Jingcheng Liu , Jalaj Upadhyay , Zongrui Zou

We describe a new approximation algorithm for Max Cut. Our algorithm runs in $\tilde O(n^2)$ time, where $n$ is the number of vertices, and achieves an approximation ratio of $.531$. On instances in which an optimal solution cuts a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-12-08 Luca Trevisan

We develop a new algorithmic technique that allows to transfer some constant time approximation algorithms for general graphs into random order streaming algorithms. We illustrate our technique by proving that in random order streams with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Pan Peng , Christian Sohler

We develop new $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for finding the global minimum edge-cut in a directed edge-weighted graph, and for finding the global minimum vertex-cut in a directed vertex-weighted graph. Our algorithms are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ron Mosenzon

We propose a randomized algorithm with query access that given a graph $G$ with arboricity $\alpha$, and average degree $d$, makes $\widetilde{O}\left(\frac{\alpha}{\varepsilon^2d}\right)$ \texttt{Degree} and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Debarshi Chanda

In this paper, we address the challenge of differential privacy in the context of graph cuts, specifically focusing on the multiway cut and the minimum $k$-cut. We introduce edge-differentially private algorithms that achieve nearly optimal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Rishi Chandra , Michael Dinitz , Chenglin Fan , Zongrui Zou

We present a simple nonadaptive randomized algorithm that estimates the number of edges in a simple, unweighted, undirected graph, possibly containing isolated vertices, using only degree and random edge queries. For an $n$-vertex graph,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Arijit Bishnu , Debarshi Chanda , Buddha Dev Das , Arijit Ghosh , Gopinath Mishra
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