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With changes in privacy laws, there is often a hard requirement for client data to remain on the device rather than being sent to the server. Therefore, most processing happens on the device, and only an altered element is sent to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Ajinkya K Mulay

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

We study spectral graph clustering under edge differential privacy. We propose a matrix shuffling mechanism that combines randomized edge flipping with a random permutation of the adjacency matrix. While edge flipping alone provides only a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Antti Koskela , Mohamed Seif , H. Vincent Poor , Andrea J. Goldsmith

Given a graph, the densest subgraph problem asks for a set of vertices such that the average degree among these vertices is maximized. Densest subgraph has numerous applications in learning, e.g., community detection in social networks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Alireza Farhadi , MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi , Elaine Shi

Recent breakthroughs in graph streaming have led to the design of single-pass semi-streaming algorithms for various graph coloring problems such as $(\Delta+1)$-coloring, degeneracy-coloring, coloring triangle-free graphs, and others. These…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Sepehr Assadi , Andrew Chen , Glenn Sun

This paper studies sufficient conditions to obtain efficient distributed algorithms coloring graphs optimally (i.e.\ with the minimum number of colors) in the LOCAL model of computation. Most of the work on distributed vertex coloring so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Étienne Bamas , Louis Esperet

We give deterministic distributed $(1+\epsilon)$-approximation algorithms for Minimum Vertex Coloring and Maximum Independent Set on chordal graphs in the LOCAL model. Our coloring algorithm runs in $O(\frac{1}{\epsilon} \log n)$ rounds,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Christian Konrad , Viktor Zamaraev

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

We study the Densest Subgraph (DSG) problem under the additional constraint of differential privacy. DSG is a fundamental theoretical question which plays a central role in graph analytics, and so privacy is a natural requirement. All known…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Michael Dinitz , Satyen Kale , Silvio Lattanzi , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Motivated by settings in which predictive models may be required to be non-discriminatory with respect to certain attributes (such as race), but even collecting the sensitive attribute may be forbidden or restricted, we initiate the study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Matthew Jagielski , Michael Kearns , Jieming Mao , Alina Oprea , Aaron Roth , Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi , Jonathan Ullman

The $\Delta$-vertex coloring problem has become one of the prototypical problems for understanding the complexity of local distributed graph problems on constant-degree graphs. The major open problem is whether the problem can be solved…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Manuel Jakob , Yannic Maus

This paper proposes a differentially private gradient-tracking-based distributed stochastic optimization algorithm over directed graphs. In particular, privacy noises are incorporated into each agent's state and tracking variable to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Jialong Chen , Jimin Wang , Ji-Feng Zhang

In this paper, we initiate the study of the vertex coloring problem of a graph in the semi streaming model. In this model, the input graph is defined by a stream of edges, arriving in adversarial order and any algorithm must process the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Suman Kalyan Bera , Prantar Ghosh

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

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

In Defective Coloring we are given a graph $G$ and two integers $\chi_d$, $\Delta^*$ and are asked if we can $\chi_d$-color $G$ so that the maximum degree induced by any color class is at most $\Delta^*$. We show that this natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rémy Belmonte , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

Paths in a given network are a generalised form of time-serial chains in many real-world applications, such as trajectories and Internet flows. Differentially private trajectory publishing concerns publishing path information that is usable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Zhigang Lu , Hong Shen

We give a randomized algorithm that properly colors the vertices of a triangle-free graph G on n vertices using O(\Delta(G)/ log \Delta(G)) colors, where \Delta(G) is the maximum degree of G. The algorithm takes O(n\Delta2(G)log\Delta(G))…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-02-01 Mohammad Shoaib Jamall

We design fast dynamic algorithms for proper vertex and edge colorings in a graph undergoing edge insertions and deletions. In the static setting, there are simple linear time algorithms for $(\Delta+1)$- vertex coloring and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Sayan Bhattacharya , Deeparnab Chakrabarty , Monika Henzinger , Danupon Nanongkai

Recently differential privacy has been used for a number of streaming, data structure, and dynamic graph problems as a means of hiding the internal randomness of the data structure, so that multiple possibly adaptive queries can be made…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Shiyuan Feng , Ying Feng , George Z. Li , Zhao Song , David P. Woodruff , Lichen Zhang