提出隐私保护图聚类新方法,兼顾精度与效率。
Differentially Private Spectral Graph Clustering: Balancing Privacy, Accuracy, and Efficiency
- 通过随机边翻转加矩阵打乱实现更强隐私保护
- 误差率随节点数增加呈1/n量级下降,优于传统方法
- 适合需要高隐私保障的社交网络分析场景
研究在边差分隐私约束下的谱图聚类。提出一种矩阵打乱机制,结合随机边翻转与邻接矩阵的随机排列。仅靠边翻转时隐私预算ε恒定,而打乱机制可放大隐私保护,使有效ε随节点数增长趋于零。构建统一的误差分析框架,基于Davis-Kahan扰动理论和分类间隔界,给出所有机制的误分类率,其依赖于隐私预算、特征值间距和社区数。应用该框架证明,矩阵打乱机制的误差率呈$ ilde{O}(1/n)$,显著优于两个经典私有主成分分析基线:直接对邻接矩阵使用高斯机制(Analyze Gauss)和噪声幂迭代法,二者均呈$ ilde{O}(1)$。进一步提出私有谱间隙检测算法以估计社区数。在合成与真实网络上的实验验证了理论结果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We study spectral graph clustering under edge differential privacy. We propose a matrix shuffling mechanism that combines randomized edge flipping with a random permutation of the adjacency matrix. While edge flipping alone provides only a constant $\varepsilon$ guarantee as the graph grows, shuffling amplifies privacy so that the effective $\varepsilon$ tends to zero with the number of nodes. We develop a unified error analysis framework -- based on Davis--Kahan perturbation theory and a classification-margin bound -- that gives explicit misclassification rates for all the mechanisms considered as a function of the privacy budget, eigengap, and number of communities. Applying this framework, we show that the matrix shuffling mechanism achieves an error rate scaling of $\tilde{O}(1/n)$, a clear improvement over two canonical DP baselines from the private PCA literature: the Gaussian mechanism applied directly to the adjacency matrix (Analyze Gauss) and the noisy power method, both of which scale as $\tilde{O}(1)$ in $n$. We further propose a private spectral gap detection algorithm for estimating the number of communities. Experiments on synthetic and real-world networks validate our theoretical findings.
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