Consistent Spectral Clustering of Network Block Models under Local Differential Privacy

Autor: Jonathan Hehir, Aleksandra Slavkovic, Xiaoyue Niu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: The Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, Vol 12, Iss 2 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2575-8527
Popis: The stochastic block model (SBM) and degree-corrected block model (DCBM) are network models often selected as the fundamental setting in which to analyze the theoretical properties of community detection methods. We consider the problem of spectral clustering of SBM and DCBM networks under a local form of edge differential privacy. Using a randomized response privacy mechanism called the edge-flip mechanism, we develop theoretical guarantees for differentially private community detection, demonstrating conditions under which this strong privacy guarantee can be upheld while achieving spectral clustering convergence rates that match the known rates without privacy. We prove the strongest theoretical results are achievable for dense networks (those with node degree linear in the number of nodes), while weak consistency is achievable under mild sparsity (node degree greater than $\sqrt{n}$). We empirically demonstrate our results on a number of network examples.
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