Feature-Aware Anisotropic Local Differential Privacy for Utility-Preserving Graph Representation Learning in Metal Additive Manufacturing

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Auteurs principaux: Islam, MD Shafikul, Bappy, Mahathir Mohammad, Tushar, Saifur Rahman, Arifuzzaman, Md
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author Islam, MD Shafikul
Bappy, Mahathir Mohammad
Tushar, Saifur Rahman
Arifuzzaman, Md
author_facet Islam, MD Shafikul
Bappy, Mahathir Mohammad
Tushar, Saifur Rahman
Arifuzzaman, Md
contents Metal additive manufacturing (AM) enables the fabrication of safety-critical components, but reliable quality assurance depends on high-fidelity sensor streams containing proprietary process information, limiting collaborative data sharing. Existing defect-detection models typically treat melt-pool observations as independent samples, ignoring layer-wise physical couplings. Moreover, conventional privacy-preserving techniques, particularly Local Differential Privacy (LDP), lead to severe utility degradation because they inject uniform noise across all feature dimensions. To address these interrelated challenges, we propose FI-LDP-HGAT. This computational framework combines two methodological components: a stratified Hierarchical Graph Attention Network (HGAT) that captures spatial and thermal dependencies across scan tracks and deposited layers, and a feature-importance-aware anisotropic Gaussian mechanism (FI-LDP) for non-interactive feature privatization. Unlike isotropic LDP, FI-LDP redistributes the privacy budget across embedding coordinates using an encoder-derived importance prior, assigning lower noise to task-critical thermal signatures and higher noise to redundant dimensions while maintaining formal LDP guarantees. Experiments on a Directed Energy Deposition (DED) porosity dataset demonstrate that FI-LDP-HGAT achieves 81.5% utility recovery at a moderate privacy budget (epsilon = 4) and maintains defect recall of 0.762 under strict privacy (epsilon = 2), while outperforming classical ML, standard GNNs, and alternative privacy mechanisms, including DP-SGD across all evaluated metrics. Mechanistic analysis confirms a strong negative correlation (Spearman = -0.81) between feature importance and noise magnitude, providing interpretable evidence that the privacy-utility gains are driven by principled anisotropic allocation.
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spellingShingle Feature-Aware Anisotropic Local Differential Privacy for Utility-Preserving Graph Representation Learning in Metal Additive Manufacturing
Islam, MD Shafikul
Bappy, Mahathir Mohammad
Tushar, Saifur Rahman
Arifuzzaman, Md
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
Metal additive manufacturing (AM) enables the fabrication of safety-critical components, but reliable quality assurance depends on high-fidelity sensor streams containing proprietary process information, limiting collaborative data sharing. Existing defect-detection models typically treat melt-pool observations as independent samples, ignoring layer-wise physical couplings. Moreover, conventional privacy-preserving techniques, particularly Local Differential Privacy (LDP), lead to severe utility degradation because they inject uniform noise across all feature dimensions. To address these interrelated challenges, we propose FI-LDP-HGAT. This computational framework combines two methodological components: a stratified Hierarchical Graph Attention Network (HGAT) that captures spatial and thermal dependencies across scan tracks and deposited layers, and a feature-importance-aware anisotropic Gaussian mechanism (FI-LDP) for non-interactive feature privatization. Unlike isotropic LDP, FI-LDP redistributes the privacy budget across embedding coordinates using an encoder-derived importance prior, assigning lower noise to task-critical thermal signatures and higher noise to redundant dimensions while maintaining formal LDP guarantees. Experiments on a Directed Energy Deposition (DED) porosity dataset demonstrate that FI-LDP-HGAT achieves 81.5% utility recovery at a moderate privacy budget (epsilon = 4) and maintains defect recall of 0.762 under strict privacy (epsilon = 2), while outperforming classical ML, standard GNNs, and alternative privacy mechanisms, including DP-SGD across all evaluated metrics. Mechanistic analysis confirms a strong negative correlation (Spearman = -0.81) between feature importance and noise magnitude, providing interpretable evidence that the privacy-utility gains are driven by principled anisotropic allocation.
title Feature-Aware Anisotropic Local Differential Privacy for Utility-Preserving Graph Representation Learning in Metal Additive Manufacturing
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05077