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We introduce the novel problem of benchmarking fraud detectors on private graph-structured data. Currently, many types of fraud are managed in part by automated detection algorithms that operate over graphs. We consider the scenario where a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Alexander Goldberg , Giulia Fanti , Nihar Shah , Zhiwei Steven Wu

As the field of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) continues to grow, it experiences a corresponding increase in the need for large, real-world datasets to train and test new GNN models on challenging, realistic problems. Unfortunately, such graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Minji Yoon , Yue Wu , John Palowitch , Bryan Perozzi , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Synthetic data generation methods, and in particular, private synthetic data generation methods, are gaining popularity as a means to make copies of sensitive databases that can be shared widely for research and data analysis. Some of the…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Shweta Patwa , Danyu Sun , Amir Gilad , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Sudeepa Roy

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a popular technique for modelling graph-structured data and computing node-level representations via aggregation of information from the neighborhood of each node. However, this aggregation implies an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ameya Daigavane , Gagan Madan , Aditya Sinha , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta , Gaurav Aggarwal , Prateek Jain

We consider the problem of generating private synthetic versions of real-world graphs containing private information while maintaining the utility of generated graphs. Differential privacy is a gold standard for data privacy, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Xu Zheng , Nicholas McCarthy , Jer Hayes

The need to analyze sensitive data, such as medical records or financial data, has created a critical research challenge in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the framework of differential privacy, and explore mechanisms for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nikolija Bojkovic , Po-Ling Loh

Graph data is increasingly prevalent across domains, offering analytical value but raising significant privacy concerns. Edges may encode sensitive relationships, while node attributes may contain sensitive entity or personal data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Nicholas D'Silva , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere

Synthetic text generation with Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees emerges as a principled approach that can enable the sharing of sensitive datasets across institutional and regulatory boundaries, while bounding the risks of…

The application of graph analytics to various domains has yielded tremendous societal and economical benefits in recent years. However, the increasingly widespread adoption of graph analytics comes with a commensurate increase in the need…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Yang Li , Michael Purcell , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , David Smith , Thilina Ranbaduge , Kee Siong Ng

Differential privacy has become a de facto standard for releasing data in a privacy-preserving way. Creating a differentially private algorithm is a process that often starts with a noise-free (non-private) algorithm. The designer then…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yuxin Wang , Zeyu Ding , Yingtai Xiao , Daniel Kifer , Danfeng Zhang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one of the well-known models to generate synthetic data including images, especially for research communities that cannot use original sensitive datasets because they are not publicly accessible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani , Peter Kairouz , Benedict Paten

Graph embedding has become a powerful tool for learning latent representations of nodes in a graph. Despite its superior performance in various graph-based machine learning tasks, serious privacy concerns arise when the graph data contains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Zening Li , Rong-Hua Li , Meihao Liao , Fusheng Jin , Guoren Wang

Machine learning practitioners frequently seek to leverage the most informative available data, without violating the data owner's privacy, when building predictive models. Differentially private data synthesis protects personal details…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Lucas Rosenblatt , Xiaoyan Liu , Samira Pouyanfar , Eduardo de Leon , Anuj Desai , Joshua Allen

We introduce the DP-auto-GAN framework for synthetic data generation, which combines the low dimensional representation of autoencoders with the flexibility of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). This framework can be used to take in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Uthaipon Tantipongpipat , Chris Waites , Digvijay Boob , Amaresh Ankit Siva , Rachel Cummings

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

Gaussian differential privacy (GDP) is a single-parameter family of privacy notions that provides coherent guarantees to avoid the exposure of sensitive individual information. Despite the extra interpretability and tighter bounds under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yi Liu , Ke Sun , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation is a practical method for improving access to data as a means to encourage productive partnerships. One issue inherent to DP is that the "privacy budget" is generally "spent" evenly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Lucas Rosenblatt , Joshua Allen , Julia Stoyanovich

Differentially private (DP) image synthesis aims to generate artificial images that retain the properties of sensitive images while protecting the privacy of individual images within the dataset. Despite recent advancements, we find that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chen Gong , Kecen Li , Zinan Lin , Tianhao Wang

Discovering frequent graph patterns in a graph database offers valuable information in a variety of applications. However, if the graph dataset contains sensitive data of individuals such as mobile phone-call graphs and web-click graphs,…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Entong Shen , Ting Yu

Differentially private data generation techniques have become a promising solution to the data privacy challenge -- it enables sharing of data while complying with rigorous privacy guarantees, which is essential for scientific progress in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz