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GAP: Differentially Private Graph Neural Networks with Aggregation Perturbation

Sajadmanesh, Sina
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Shamsabadi, Ali Shahin
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Bellet, Aurelien
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January 1, 2023
Proceedings Of The 32Nd Usenix Security Symposium
32nd USENIX Security Symposium

In this paper, we study the problem of learning Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with Differential Privacy (DP). We propose a novel differentially private GNN based on Aggregation Perturbation (GAP), which adds stochastic noise to the GNN's aggregation function to statistically obfuscate the presence of a single edge (edge-level privacy) or a single node and all its adjacent edges (node-level privacy). Tailored to the specifics of private learning, GAP's new architecture is composed of three separate modules: (i) the encoder module, where we learn private node embeddings without relying on the edge information; (ii) the aggregation module, where we compute noisy aggregated node embeddings based on the graph structure; and (iii) the classification module, where we train a neural network on the private aggregations for node classification without further querying the graph edges. GAP's major advantage over previous approaches is that it can benefit from multi-hop neighborhood aggregations, and guarantees both edge-level and node-level DP not only for training, but also at inference with no additional costs beyond the training's privacy budget. We analyze GAP's formal privacy guarantees using Renyi DP and conduct empirical experiments over three real-world graph datasets. We demonstrate that GAP offers significantly better accuracy-privacy trade-offs than state-of-the-art DP-GNN approaches and naive MLP-based baselines. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/sisaman/GAP.

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conference paper
Web of Science ID

WOS:001066451503022

Author(s)
Sajadmanesh, Sina
Shamsabadi, Ali Shahin
Bellet, Aurelien
Gatica-Perez, Daniel  
Corporate authors
USENIX Association
Date Issued

2023-01-01

Publisher

Usenix Assoc

Publisher place

Berkeley

Published in
Proceedings Of The 32Nd Usenix Security Symposium
ISBN of the book

978-1-939133-37-3

Start page

3223

End page

3240

Subjects

Technology

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LIDIAP  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
32nd USENIX Security Symposium

Anaheim, CA

AUG 09-11, 2023

FunderGrant Number

European Commission's Horizon 2020 Program

ICT-48-2020

French National Research Agency (ANR)

ANR-20-CE23-0015

Alan Turing Institute

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February 20, 2024
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/204628
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