Summary of On Provable Privacy Vulnerabilities Of Graph Representations, by Ruofan Wu et al.
On provable privacy vulnerabilities of graph representations
by Ruofan Wu, Guanhua Fang, Qiying Pan, Mingyang Zhang, Tengfei Liu, Weiqiang Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper investigates the security vulnerabilities in graph neural models that can be exploited by similarity-based edge reconstruction attacks (SERA). It provides a non-asymptotic analysis of SERA’s reconstruction capacities, which are found to be effective in reconstructing sparse graphs. The researchers also examine the resilience of private graph representations produced using noisy aggregation (NAG) mechanism against SERA and demonstrate that NAG can mitigate these attacks. Furthermore, the paper explores the trade-off between privacy and utility through empirical assessments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper looks at ways to hack into computer networks by reconstructing information about how the network is connected. They show that it’s possible to get a lot of information just by looking at some of the connections in the network. The researchers also test different methods for keeping this information private and find one method, called NAG, that can keep it safe from being hacked. |
