arXiv Machine Learning

Empirical Auditing of Edge-Private Graph Generators

The paper presents an empirical audit of privacy leakage in edge‑private graph generators by testing whether outputs from edge‑neighbouring inputs remain distinguishable. It introduces statistically valid lower bounds on privacy loss and compares direct‑edge, local‑structural, and GNN‑based attacks based on the geometry around a target edge. Experiments on two generators and two networks reveal that privacy leakage varies with both the mechanism and the network, and that learned representations expose information beyond conventional local statistics.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

EdgeRefine: Privacy-Utility Balance for Graphs via Jaccard Sampling under Edge Differential Privacy

arXiv:2607. 08659v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown considerable success in learning from graph-structured data, but their use in privacy-sensitive areas remains difficult because graph structure can leak sensitive link information.

By Wenxiu Ding, Muzhi Liu, Zheng Yan, Mingjun Wang, Yifan Zhao, Qiao Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Trust-But-Verify: Poisoning-Resilient Locally Private Graph Learning Protocols

The paper introduces VERITAS, a poisoning‑resilient protocol for locally private graph learning that combines local differential privacy with a trust‑but‑verify approach. VERITAS employs a verification list to encode peer trust, performs local data perturbation, server‑side malicious node pruning, dual denoising, and robust private graph learning. Experiments on four real‑world datasets show that VERITAS defends against data poisoning attacks while improving downstream graph learning utility under strict privacy guarantees.

By Longzhu He, Li Sun, Hao Peng, Ruijie Wang, Raymond Chi-Wing Wong, Sen Su
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Let's Ask Gauss: Improved One-Run Privacy Auditing

arXiv:2606. 12733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Privacy auditing provides an important safeguard by estimating the actual information leaked by a model, thus ensuring that theoretical privacy guarantees hold in practice.

By Adya Agrawal, Yu Wei, Jaspal Singh, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Vassilis Zikas
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Provable Privacy Attacks on Trained Shallow Neural Networks

The paper investigates provable privacy attacks on trained 2‑layer ReLU neural networks, specifically membership inference and data reconstruction. It demonstrates that the implicit bias of such networks can be leveraged to identify, with high probability, whether a given point was part of the training set in high‑dimensional, nearly orthogonal settings, and to construct a finite set containing a constant fraction of training points in a univariate setting. This work claims to be the first to reveal provable vulnerabilities arising from implicit bias in shallow neural networks.

By Guy Smorodinsky, Gal Vardi, Itay Safran