Differentially private exponential random graphs

Vishesh Karwa, Aleksandra B. Slavković, Pavel Krivitsky

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Abstract

We propose methods to release and analyze synthetic graphs in order to protect privacy of individual relationships captured by the social network. Proposed techniques aim at fitting and estimating a wide class of exponential random graph models (ERGMs) in a differentially private manner, and thus offer rigorous privacy guarantees. More specifically, we use the randomized response mechanism to release networks under ϵ-edge differential privacy. To maintain utility for statistical inference, treating the original graph as missing, we propose a way to use likelihood based inference and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques to fit ERGMs to the produced synthetic networks.We demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed techniques on a real data example.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsJosep Domingo-Ferrer
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages143-155
Number of pages13
ISBN (Electronic)9783319112565
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
EventInternational Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2014 - Ibiza, Spain
Duration: Sep 17 2014Sep 19 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8744
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

OtherInternational Conference on Privacy in Statistical Databases, PSD 2014
Country/TerritorySpain
CityIbiza
Period9/17/149/19/14

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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