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Publishing open graph data while preserving individual privacy remains challenging when data publishers and data users are distinct entities. Although differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous guarantees, most existing approaches enforce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Muhao Guo , Jiaqi Wu , Yizheng Liao , Wenke Lee , Shengzhe Chen , Yang Weng

Graphs are the dominant formalism for modeling multi-agent systems. The algebraic connectivity of a graph is particularly important because it provides the convergence rates of consensus algorithms that underlie many multi-agent control and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Bo Chen , Calvin Hawkins , Kasra Yazdani , Matthew Hale

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

As machine learning (ML) becomes more prevalent in human-centric applications, there is a growing emphasis on algorithmic fairness and privacy protection. While previous research has explored these areas as separate objectives, there is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Songjie Xie , Youlong Wu , Jiaxuan Li , Ming Ding , Khaled B. Letaief

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in various graph-based machine learning tasks by effectively modeling high-order interactions between nodes. However, training GNNs without protection may leak sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Wen Xu , Zhetao Li , Yong Xiao , Pengpeng Qiao , Mianxiong Dong , Kaoru Ota

Many real-world interconnections among entities can be characterized as graphs. Collecting local graph information with balanced privacy and data utility has garnered notable interest recently. This paper delves into the problem of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Conggai Li , Wei Ni , Ming Ding , Youyang Qu , Jianjun Chen , David Smith , Wenjie Zhang , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained significant attention owing to their ability to handle graph-structured data and the improvement in practical applications. However, many of these models prioritize high utility performance, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yi Zhang , Yuying Zhao , Zhaoqing Li , Xueqi Cheng , Yu Wang , Olivera Kotevska , Philip S. Yu , Tyler Derr

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

In this work, we study the applications of differential privacy (DP) in the context of graph-structured data. We discuss the formulations of DP applicable to the publication of graphs and their associated statistics as well as machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Tamara T. Mueller , Dmitrii Usynin , Johannes C. Paetzold , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

As special information carriers containing both structure and feature information, graphs are widely used in graph mining, e.g., Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, in some practical scenarios, graph data are stored separately in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Taolin Zhang , Chuan Chen , Yaomin Chang , Lin Shu , Zibin Zheng

Density-adaptive domain discretization is essential for high-utility privacy-preserving analytics but remains challenging under Local Differential Privacy (LDP) due to the privacy-budget costs associated with iterative refinement. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Alexey Kroshnin , Alexandra Suvorikova

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

Bipartite graphs, formed by two vertex layers, arise as a natural fit for modeling the relationships between two groups of entities. In bipartite graphs, common neighborhood computation between two vertices on the same vertex layer is a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yizhang He , Kai Wang , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin , Ying Zhang

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

We generalize a previous framework for designing utility-optimal differentially private (DP) mechanisms via graphs, where datasets are vertices in the graph and edges represent dataset neighborhood. The boundary set contains datasets where…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Sahel Torkamani , Javad B. Ebrahimi , Parastoo Sadeghi , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Muriel Medard

Network embedding represents network nodes by a low-dimensional informative vector. While it is generally effective for various downstream tasks, it may leak some private information of networks, such as hidden private links. In this work,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Xiao Han , Leye Wang , Junjie Wu , Yuncong Yang

In this paper, we study the problem of learning Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with Differential Privacy (DP). We propose a novel differentially private GNN based on Aggregation Perturbation (GAP), which adds stochastic noise to the GNN's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sina Sajadmanesh , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Aurélien Bellet , Daniel Gatica-Perez

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a recently proposed privacy standard for collecting and analyzing data, which has been used, e.g., in the Chrome browser, iOS and macOS. In LDP, each user perturbs her information locally, and only sends…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ning Wang , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Jun Zhao , Siu Cheung Hui , Hyejin Shin , Junbum Shin , Ge Yu

The skip-gram model (SGM), which employs a neural network to generate node vectors, serves as the basis for numerous popular graph embedding techniques. However, since the training datasets contain sensitive linkage information, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Sen Zhang , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu , Jianliang Xu

Behemoth graphs are often fragmented and separately stored by multiple data owners as distributed subgraphs in many realistic applications. Without harming data privacy, it is natural to consider the subgraph federated learning (subgraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ke Zhang , Lichao Sun , Bolin Ding , Siu Ming Yiu , Carl Yang