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Differentially private algorithms allow large-scale data analytics while preserving user privacy. Designing such algorithms for graph data is gaining importance with the growth of large networks that model various (sensitive) relationships…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Laxman Dhulipala , Quanquan C. Liu , Sofya Raskhodnikova , Jessica Shi , Julian Shun , Shangdi Yu

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 revisit the theoretical performances of Spectral Clustering, a classical algorithm for graph partitioning that relies on the eigenvectors of a matrix representation of the graph. Informally, we show that Spectral Clustering works well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 George Tyler , Luca Zanetti

The goal of community detection over graphs is to recover underlying labels/attributes of users (e.g., political affiliation) given the connectivity between users (represented by adjacency matrix of a graph). There has been significant…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mohamed Seif , Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti , Ravi Tandon

Estimating causal effects from randomized experiments is only possible if participants are willing to disclose their potentially sensitive responses. Differential privacy, a widely used framework for ensuring an algorithms privacy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Adel Javanmard , Vahab Mirrokni , Jean Pouget-Abadie

Clustering is an important tool for data exploration where the goal is to subdivide a data set into disjoint clusters that fit well into the underlying data structure. When dealing with sensitive data, privacy-preserving algorithms aim to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Johannes Liebenow , Yara Schütt , Tanya Braun , Marcel Gehrke , Florian Thaeter , Esfandiar Mohammadi

We study the task of differentially private clustering. For several basic clustering problems, including Euclidean DensestBall, 1-Cluster, k-means, and k-median, we give efficient differentially private algorithms that achieve essentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Badih Ghazi , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

Motivated by growing concerns over ensuring privacy on social networks, we develop new algorithms and impossibility results for fitting complex statistical models to network data subject to rigorous privacy guarantees. We consider the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-10-05 Christian Borgs , Jennifer Chayes , Adam Smith , Ilias Zadik

We present differentially private (DP) algorithms for bilevel optimization, a problem class that received significant attention lately in various machine learning applications. These are the first algorithms for such problems under standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Guy Kornowski

Graph clustering involves the task of dividing nodes into clusters, so that the edge density is higher within clusters as opposed to across clusters. A natural, classic and popular statistical setting for evaluating solutions to this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-17 Yudong Chen , Sujay Sanghavi , Huan Xu

Graph clustering is an important algorithmic technique for analysing massive graphs, and has been widely applied in many research fields of data science. While the objective of most graph clustering algorithms is to find a vertex set of low…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Joyentanuj Das , Suranjan De , He Sun

We study the classical problem of community recovery in stochastic block models with a fixed number of communities, with a twist: We seek algorithms that are stable with respect to node-wise changes in the graph structure, formally defined…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Laurentiu Marchis , Ethan D'souza , Tomáš Flídr , Po-Ling Loh

As a model problem for clustering, we consider the densest k-disjoint-clique problem of partitioning a weighted complete graph into k disjoint subgraphs such that the sum of the densities of these subgraphs is maximized. We establish that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-18 Aleksis Pirinen , Brendan Ames

We propose a novel distributed algorithm to cluster graphs. The algorithm recovers the solution obtained from spectral clustering without the need for expensive eigenvalue/vector computations. We prove that, by propagating waves through the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Tuhin Sahai , Alberto Speranzon , Andrzej Banaszuk

How can we find a good graph clustering of a real-world network, that allows insight into its underlying structure and also potential functions? In this paper, we introduce a new graph clustering algorithm Dcut from a density point of view.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-06 Junming Shao , Qinli Yang , Jinhu Liu , Stefan Kramer

The present paper is devoted to clustering geometric graphs. While the standard spectral clustering is often not effective for geometric graphs, we present an effective generalization, which we call higher-order spectral clustering. It…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Andrei Bobu , Maximilien Dreveton

Clustering is an important topic in algorithms, and has a number of applications in machine learning, computer vision, statistics, and several other research disciplines. Traditional objectives of graph clustering are to find clusters with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Steinar Laenen , He Sun

In this paper, we propose a Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Push with Compressed communication (termed DP-CSGP) for decentralized learning over directed graphs. Different from existing works, the proposed algorithm is designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zehan Zhu , Heng Zhao , Yan Huang , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Shouling Ji , Jinming Xu

In this paper, we investigate federated clustering (FedC) problem, that aims to accurately partition unlabeled data samples distributed over massive clients into finite clusters under the orchestration of a parameter server, meanwhile…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yiwei Li , Shuai Wang , Chong-Yung Chi , Tony Q. S. Quek

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