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Learning the similarity between structured data, especially the graphs, is one of the essential problems. Besides the approach like graph kernels, Gromov-Wasserstein (GW) distance recently draws big attention due to its flexibility to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hongwei Jin , Xun Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with differential privacy have been proposed to preserve graph privacy when nodes represent personal and sensitive information. However, the existing methods ignore that nodes with different importance may yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yuxin Qi , Xi Lin , Jun Wu

Under circumstances of heterophily, where nodes with different labels tend to be connected based on semantic meanings, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) often exhibit suboptimal performance. Current studies on graph heterophily mainly focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Yilun Zheng , Jiahao Xu , Lihui Chen

In this paper, we study the problem of learning Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with Differential Privacy (DP). We propose a novel differentially private GNN based on Aggregation Perturbation (GAP), which adds stochastic noise to the GNN's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sina Sajadmanesh , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Aurélien Bellet , Daniel Gatica-Perez

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance in various applications. Recently, graph prompt learning has emerged as a powerful GNN training paradigm, inspired by advances in language and vision foundation models. Here, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jing Xu , Franziska Boenisch , Iyiola Emmanuel Olatunji , Adam Dziedzic

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 convolution networks (GCNs) are extensively utilized in various graph tasks to mine knowledge from spatial data. Our study marks the pioneering attempt to quantitatively investigate the GCN robustness over omnipresent heterophilic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Chenyang Qiu , Guoshun Nan , Tianyu Xiong , Wendi Deng , Di Wang , Zhiyang Teng , Lijuan Sun , Qimei Cui , Xiaofeng Tao

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research has highlighted a relationship between high homophily (i.e., the tendency of nodes of the same class to connect) and strong predictive performance in node classification. However, recent work has found…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Donald Loveland , Jiong Zhu , Mark Heimann , Benjamin Fish , Michael T. Schaub , Danai Koutra

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various graph mining tasks by aggregating information from neighborhoods for representation learning. The success relies on the homophily assumption that nearby nodes exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Zhuonan Zheng , Sheng Zhou , Hongjia Xu , Ming Gu , Yilun Xu , Ao Li , Yuhong Li , Jingjun Gu , Jiajun Bu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used and deployed for graph-based prediction tasks. However, as good as GNNs are for learning graph data, they also come with the risk of privacy leakage. For instance, an attacker can run carefully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Mir Imtiaz Mostafiz , Imtiaz Karim , Elisa Bertino

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful models for learning from graph-structured data. However, their widespread adoption has raised serious privacy concerns. While prior research has primarily focused on edge-level privacy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jie Fu , Yuan Hong , Zhili Chen , Wendy Hui Wang

We propose AGS-GNN, a novel attribute-guided sampling algorithm for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) that exploits node features and connectivity structure of a graph while simultaneously adapting for both homophily and heterophily in graphs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Siddhartha Shankar Das , S M Ferdous , Mahantesh M Halappanavar , Edoardo Serra , Alex Pothen

Differential privacy (DP) has seen immense applications in learning on tabular, image, and sequential data where instance-level privacy is concerned. In learning on graphs, contrastingly, works on node-level privacy are highly sparse.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zihang Xiang , Tianhao Wang , Di Wang

Recent years have witnessed fast developments of graph neural networks (GNNs) that have benefited myriad graph analytic tasks and applications. Most GNNs rely on the homophily assumption that nodes belonging to the same class are more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xin Zheng , Yi Wang , Yixin Liu , Ming Li , Miao Zhang , Di Jin , Philip S. Yu , Shirui Pan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are deep learning methods which provide the current state of the art performance in node classification tasks. GNNs often assume homophily -- neighboring nodes having similar features and labels--, and therefore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Liheng Ma , Reihaneh Rabbany , Adriana Romero-Soriano

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are a popular machine learning model with a wide range of applications in graph analytics, including healthcare, transportation, and finance. However, a GCN trained without privacy protection measures may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Jianxin Wei , Yizheng Zhu , Xiaokui Xiao , Ergute Bao , Yin Yang , Kuntai Cai , Beng Chin Ooi

Deep learning models are known to put the privacy of their training data at risk, which poses challenges for their safe and ethical release to the public. Differentially private stochastic gradient descent is the de facto standard for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Morgane Ayle , Jan Schuchardt , Lukas Gosch , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann

As an efficient neural network model for graph data, graph neural networks (GNNs) recently find successful applications for various wireless optimization problems. Given that the inference stage of GNNs can be naturally implemented in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mengyuan Lee , Guanding Yu , Huaiyu Dai

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

We initiate an investigation of node differential privacy for graphs in the local model of private data analysis. In our model, dubbed LNDP*, each node sees its own edge list and releases the output of a local randomizer on this input.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sofya Raskhodnikova , Adam Smith , Connor Wagaman , Anatoly Zavyalov