dK-Projection: Publishing Graph Joint Degree Distribution with Node Differential Privacy

Masooma Iftikhar*, Qing Wang

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    Abstract

    Network data has great significance for commercial and research purposes. However, most networks contain sensitive information about individuals, thereby requiring privacy-preserving mechanisms to publish network data while preserving data utility. In this paper, we study the problem of publishing higher-order network statistics, i.e., joint degree distribution, under strong mathematical guarantees of node differential privacy. This problem is known to be challenging, since even simple network statistics (e.g., edge count) can be highly sensitive to adding or removing a single node in a network. To address this challenge, we propose a general framework of publishing dK-distributions under node differential privacy, and develop a novel graph projection algorithm to transform graphs to θ -bounded graphs for controlled sensitivity. We have conducted experiments to verify the utility enhancement and privacy guarantee of our proposed framework on four real-world networks. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to publish higher-order network statistics under node differential privacy, while enhancing network data utility.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAdvances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 25th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2021, Proceedings
    EditorsKamal Karlapalem, Hong Cheng, Naren Ramakrishnan, R. K. Agrawal, P. Krishna Reddy, Jaideep Srivastava, Tanmoy Chakraborty
    PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
    Pages358-370
    Number of pages13
    ISBN (Print)9783030757649
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021
    Event25th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2021 - Virtual, Online
    Duration: 11 May 202114 May 2021

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
    Volume12713 LNAI
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    Conference25th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2021
    CityVirtual, Online
    Period11/05/2114/05/21

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