Seeding with Differentially Private Network Information

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Main Authors: Liu, Yuxin, Rahimian, M. Amin, Yu, Fang-Yi
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Published: 2023
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author Liu, Yuxin
Rahimian, M. Amin
Yu, Fang-Yi
author_facet Liu, Yuxin
Rahimian, M. Amin
Yu, Fang-Yi
contents In public health interventions such as distributing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, decision makers often use seeding algorithms to identify key individuals who can amplify intervention impact. However, building a complete sexual activity network is typically infeasible due to privacy concerns. Instead, contact tracing can provide influence samples, observed sequences of sexual contacts, without full network reconstruction. This raises two challenges: protecting individual privacy in these samples and adapting seeding algorithms to incomplete data. We study differential privacy guarantees for influence maximization when the input consists of randomly collected cascades. Building on recent advances in costly seeding, we propose privacy-preserving algorithms that introduce randomization in data or outputs and bound the privacy loss of each node. Theoretical analysis and simulations on synthetic and real-world sexual contact data show that performance degrades gracefully as privacy budgets tighten, with central privacy regimes achieving better trade-offs than local ones.
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spellingShingle Seeding with Differentially Private Network Information
Liu, Yuxin
Rahimian, M. Amin
Yu, Fang-Yi
Social and Information Networks
Computational Complexity
Multiagent Systems
Probability
Applications
91D30, 05C80
In public health interventions such as distributing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, decision makers often use seeding algorithms to identify key individuals who can amplify intervention impact. However, building a complete sexual activity network is typically infeasible due to privacy concerns. Instead, contact tracing can provide influence samples, observed sequences of sexual contacts, without full network reconstruction. This raises two challenges: protecting individual privacy in these samples and adapting seeding algorithms to incomplete data. We study differential privacy guarantees for influence maximization when the input consists of randomly collected cascades. Building on recent advances in costly seeding, we propose privacy-preserving algorithms that introduce randomization in data or outputs and bound the privacy loss of each node. Theoretical analysis and simulations on synthetic and real-world sexual contact data show that performance degrades gracefully as privacy budgets tighten, with central privacy regimes achieving better trade-offs than local ones.
title Seeding with Differentially Private Network Information
topic Social and Information Networks
Computational Complexity
Multiagent Systems
Probability
Applications
91D30, 05C80
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16590