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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in learning node representations for various graph inference tasks. However, learning over graph data can raise privacy concerns when nodes represent people or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Sina Sajadmanesh , Daniel Gatica-Perez

Many data mining and analytical tasks rely on the abstraction of networks (graphs) to summarize relational structures among individuals (nodes). Since relational data are often sensitive, we aim to seek effective approaches to generate…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Carl Yang , Haonan Wang , Ke Zhang , Liang Chen , Lichao Sun

Local differential privacy (LDP) enables private data sharing and analytics without the need for a trusted data collector. Error-optimal primitives (for, e.g., estimating means and item frequencies) under LDP have been well studied. For…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Zhuolun Xiang , Bolin Ding , Xi He , Jingren Zhou

We propose an algorithm for counting below-threshold triangles in weighted graphs under local weight differential privacy. While prior work has largely focused on unweighted graphs, edge weights are intrinsic to many real-world networks. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kevin Pfisterer , Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn

We propose an algorithm for counting the number of cycles under local differential privacy for degeneracy-bounded input graphs. Numerous studies have focused on counting the number of triangles under the privacy notion, demonstrating that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Quentin Hillebrand , Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn , Tetsuo Shibuya

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

The private collection of multiple statistics from a population is a fundamental statistical problem. One possible approach to realize this is to rely on the local model of differential privacy (LDP). Numerous LDP protocols have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Héber H. Arcolezi , Sébastien Gambs , Jean-François Couchot , Catuscia Palamidessi

Decentralized optimization is increasingly popular in machine learning for its scalability and efficiency. Intuitively, it should also provide better privacy guarantees, as nodes only observe the messages sent by their neighbors in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Edwige Cyffers , Mathieu Even , Aurélien Bellet , Laurent Massoulié

In the past decade analysis of big data has proven to be extremely valuable in many contexts. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a state-of-the-art approach which allows statistical computations while protecting each individual user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Björn Bebensee

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained an increasing amount of popularity due to their superior capability in learning node embeddings for various graph inference tasks, but training them can raise privacy concerns. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Xiaochen Zhu , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Xiaokui Xiao

The problem of counting subgraphs or graphlets under local differential privacy is an important challenge that has attracted significant attention from researchers. However, much of the existing work focuses on small graphlets like…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Vorapong Suppakitpaisarn , Donlapark Ponnoprat , Nicha Hirankarn , Quentin Hillebrand

The introduction and advancements in Local Differential Privacy (LDP) variants have become a cornerstone in addressing the privacy concerns associated with the vast data produced by smart devices, which forms the foundation for data-driven…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Likun Qin , Nan Wang , Tianshuo Qiu

Computing the core decomposition of a graph is a fundamental problem that has recently been studied in the differentially private setting, motivated by practical applications in data mining. In particular, Dhulipala et al. [FOCS 2022] gave…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Monika Henzinger , A. R. Sricharan , Leqi Zhu

Differentially private algorithms protect individuals in data analysis scenarios by ensuring that there is only a weak correlation between the existence of the user in the data and the result of the analysis. Dynamic graph algorithms…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Monika Henzinger , Lara Ost

Recent work by Dhulipala et al. \cite{DLRSSY22} initiated the study of the $k$-core decomposition problem under differential privacy via a connection between low round/depth distributed/parallel graph algorithms and private algorithms with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Laxman Dhulipala , George Z. Li , Quanquan C. Liu

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

Contextual bandit algorithms are useful in personalized online decision-making. However, many applications such as personalized medicine and online advertising require the utilization of individual-specific information for effective…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-08 Yuxuan Han , Zhipeng Liang , Yang Wang , Jiheng Zhang

Privacy concerns with sensitive data are receiving increasing attention. In this paper, we study local differential privacy (LDP) in interactive decentralized optimization. By constructing random local aggregators, we propose a framework to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Hanshen Xiao , Yu Ye , Srinivas Devadas

When analyzing connection patterns within graphs, subgraph counting serves as an effective and fundamental approach. Edge-local differential privacy (edge-LDP) and shuffle model have been employed to achieve subgraph counting under a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jintao Guo , Ying Zhou , Chao Li , Guixun Luo

Given a graph $G$ defined in a domain $\mathcal{G}$, we investigate locally differentially private mechanisms to release a degree sequence on $\mathcal{G}$ that accurately approximates the actual degree distribution. Existing solutions for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Xiaojian Zhang , Junqing Wang , Kerui Chen , Peiyuan Zhao , Huiyuan Bai