PrivGraph: Differentially Private Graph Data Publication by Exploiting Community Information

USENIX Security 2023

Quan Yuan1 Zhikun Zhang2 Linkang Du1 Min Chen2 Peng Cheng1 Mingyang Sun1

1. Zhejiang University 2. CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Abstract


Graph data is used in a wide range of applications, while analyzing graph data without protection is prone to privacy breach risks. To mitigate the privacy risks, we resort to the standard technique of differential privacy to publish a synthetic graph. However, existing differentially private graph synthesis approaches either introduce excessive noise by directly perturbing the adjacency matrix, or suffer significant information loss during the graph encoding process. In this paper, we propose an effective graph synthesis algorithm PrivGraph by exploiting the community information. Concretely, PrivGraph differentially privately partitions the private graph into communities, extracts intra-community and inter-community information, and reconstructs the graph from the extracted graph information. We validate the effectiveness of PrivGraph on six real-world graph datasets and seven commonly used graph metrics.

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Citation 

 @inproceedings{YZDCCS23,
    author = {Quan Yuan and Zhikun Zhang and Linkang Du and Min Chen and Peng Cheng and Mingyang Sun},
    title = {{PrivGraph: Differentially Private Graph Data Publication by Exploiting Community Information}},
    booktitle = {{USENIX Security}},
    publisher = {},
    year = {2023},
}