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We study differentially private algorithms for analyzing graphs in the challenging setting of continual release with fully dynamic updates, where edges are inserted and deleted over time, and the algorithm is required to update the solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Sofya Raskhodnikova , Teresa Anna Steiner

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

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

While differentially private synthetic data generation has been explored extensively in the literature, how to update this data in the future if the underlying private data changes is much less understood. We propose an algorithmic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Girish Kumar , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Differential Privacy (DP) is commonly employed to safeguard graph analysis or publishing. Distance, a critical factor in graph analysis, is typically handled using curator DP, where a trusted curator holds the complete neighbor lists of all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weihong Sheng , Jiajun Chen , Bin Cai , Chunqiang Hu , Meng Han , Jiguo Yu

Directed graphical models (DGMs) are a class of probabilistic models that are widely used for predictive analysis in sensitive domains, such as medical diagnostics. In this paper we present an algorithm for differentially private learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Theodoros Rekatsinas , Somesh Jha

In graph machine learning, data collection, sharing, and analysis often involve multiple parties, each of which may require varying levels of data security and privacy. To this end, preserving privacy is of great importance in protecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Dongqi Fu , Wenxuan Bao , Ross Maciejewski , Hanghang Tong , Jingrui He

This paper presents a personalized graph federated learning (PGFL) framework in which distributedly connected servers and their respective edge devices collaboratively learn device or cluster-specific models while maintaining the privacy of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Francois Gauthier , Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Stefan Werner , Yih-Fang Huang , Anthony Kuh

To develop effective and efficient graph similarity learning (GSL) models, a series of data-driven neural algorithms have been proposed in recent years. Although GSL models are frequently deployed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, the user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Ji-Rong Wen

Graphs offer unique insights into relationships between entities, complementing data modalities like text and images and enabling AI models to extend their capabilities beyond traditional tasks. However, learning from graphs often involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Haoteng Yin , Rongzhe Wei , Eli Chien , Pan Li

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation is a promising technique for utilizing private datasets that otherwise cannot be exposed for model training or other analytics. While much research literature has focused on generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shuaiqi Wang , Vikas Raunak , Arturs Backurs , Victor Reis , Pei Zhou , Sihao Chen , Longqi Yang , Zinan Lin , Sergey Yekhanin , Giulia Fanti

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

Networks are popular for representing complex data. In particular, differentially private synthetic networks are much in demand for method and algorithm development. The network generator should be easy to implement and should come with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-18 Leoni Carla Wirth , Gholamali Aminian , Gesine Reinert

Computing matchings in graphs is a foundational algorithmic task. Despite extensive interest in differentially private (DP) graph analysis, work on privately computing matching solutions, rather than just their size, has been sparse. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Michael Dinitz , George Z. Li , Quanquan C. Liu , Felix Zhou

We propose a method for the release of differentially private synthetic datasets. In many contexts, data contain sensitive values which cannot be released in their original form in order to protect individuals' privacy. Synthetic data is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Joshua Snoke , Aleksandra Slavković

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

Densest subgraph detection is a fundamental graph mining problem, with a large number of applications. There has been a lot of work on efficient algorithms for finding the densest subgraph in massive networks. However, in many domains, the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Dung Nguyen , Anil Vullikanti

Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation (DP-SDG) is a key enabler of private and secure tabular-data sharing, producing artificial data that carries through the underlying statistical properties of the input data. This typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Samuel Maddock , Shripad Gade , Graham Cormode , Will Bullock

In modern settings of data analysis, we may be running our algorithms on datasets that are sensitive in nature. However, classical machine learning and statistical algorithms were not designed with these risks in mind, and it has been…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Huanyu Zhang

Data privacy is a core tenet of responsible computing, and in the United States, differential privacy (DP) is the dominant technical operationalization of privacy-preserving data analysis. With this study, we qualitatively examine one class…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lucas Rosenblatt , Bill Howe , Julia Stoyanovich