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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…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become indispensable tools for learning from graph structured data, catering to various applications such as social network analysis and fraud detection for financial services. At the heart of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zeyu Song , Ehsanul Kabir , Shagufta Mehnaz

Augmenting specialised machine learning techniques into traditional graph learning models has achieved notable success across various domains, including federated graph learning, dynamic graph learning, and graph transformers. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Renqiang Luo , Ziqi Xu , Xikun Zhang , Qing Qing , Huafei Huang , Enyan Dai , Zhe Wang , Bo Yang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve strong performance on relational data, but real-world graphs are often distributed across organizations that cannot share raw data due to privacy and policy constraints. Existing federated GNN methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhishuai Guo , Wenhan Wu , Chen Chen , Lei Zhang , Olivera Kotevska , Ravi K Madduri

Graph federated learning enables the collaborative extraction of high-order information from distributed subgraphs while preserving the privacy of raw data. However, graph data often exhibits overlap among different clients. Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zihao Zhou , Shusen Yang , Fangyuan Zhao , Xuebin Ren

Graph neural network (GNN) is a powerful tool for analyzing graph-structured data. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks raises serious concerns, especially when dealing with sensitive information. Local Differential Privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Matta Varun , Ajay Kumar Dhakar , Yuan Hong , Shamik Sural

Given the growing concerns about fairness in machine learning and the impressive performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) on graph data learning, algorithmic fairness in GNNs has attracted significant attention. While many existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Paiheng Xu , Yuhang Zhou , Bang An , Wei Ai , Furong Huang

This paper surveys recent work in the intersection of differential privacy (DP) and fairness. It reviews the conditions under which privacy and fairness may have aligned or contrasting goals, analyzes how and why DP may exacerbate bias and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Ferdinando Fioretto , Cuong Tran , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Keyu Zhu

Privacy and fairness are two crucial pillars of responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and trustworthy Machine Learning (ML). Each objective has been independently studied in the literature with the aim of reducing utility loss in…

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for learning representations on graphs, such as social networks. However, their vulnerability to privacy inference attacks restricts their practicality, especially in high-stake domains. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Tianyi Zhao , Hui Hu , Lu Cheng

Graph-structured data exhibits universality and widespread applicability across diverse domains, such as social network analysis, biochemistry, financial fraud detection, and network security. Significant strides have been made in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Wei Ju , Siyu Yi , Yifan Wang , Zhiping Xiao , Zhengyang Mao , Hourun Li , Yiyang Gu , Yifang Qin , Nan Yin , Senzhang Wang , Xinwang Liu , Philip S. Yu , Ming Zhang

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown great power in various domains. However, their predictions may inherit societal biases on sensitive attributes, limiting their adoption in real-world applications. Although many efforts have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Huaisheng Zhu , Guoji Fu , Zhimeng Guo , Zhiwei Zhang , Teng Xiao , Suhang Wang

Deep learning's unprecedented success raises several ethical concerns ranging from biased predictions to data privacy. Researchers tackle these issues by introducing fairness metrics, or federated learning, or differential privacy. A first,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Manisha Padala , Sankarshan Damle , Sujit Gujar

Learning with graphs has attracted significant attention recently. Existing representation learning methods on graphs have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various graph-related tasks such as node classification, link prediction,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Binghui Wang , Jiayi Guo , Ang Li , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a popular tool for learning on graphs, but their widespread use raises privacy concerns as graph data can contain personal or sensitive information. Differentially private GNN models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Sina Sajadmanesh , Daniel Gatica-Perez

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in real-world applications (e.g. facial recognition). This has resulted in concerns about the fairness of decisions made by these models. Various notions and measures of fairness have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Vedant Nanda , Samuel Dooley , Sahil Singla , Soheil Feizi , John P. Dickerson

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are increasingly used in critical human applications for predicting node labels in attributed graphs. Their ability to aggregate features from nodes' neighbors for accurate classification also has the capacity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Arpit Merchant , Carlos Castillo

Recent advances in protecting node privacy on graph data and attacking graph neural networks (GNNs) gain much attention. The eye does not bring these two essential tasks together yet. Imagine an adversary can utilize the powerful GNNs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 I-Chung Hsieh , Cheng-Te Li

Federated learning (FL) has been a hot topic in recent years. Ever since it was introduced, researchers have endeavored to devise FL systems that protect privacy or ensure fair results, with most research focusing on one or the other. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Tao Zhang , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu