A differentially private estimator for the stochastic Kronecker graph model

  • Authors:
  • Darakhshan Mir;Rebecca N. Wright

  • Affiliations:
  • Rutgers University;Rutgers University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 Joint EDBT/ICDT Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We consider the problem of making graph databases such as social networks available to researchers for knowledge discovery while providing privacy to the participating entities. We use a parametric graph model, the stochastic Kronecker graph model, to model the observed graph and construct an estimator of the "true parameter" in a way that both satisfies the rigorous requirements of differential privacy and demonstrates experimental utility on several important graph statistics. The estimator, which may then be published, defines a probability distribution on graphs. Sampling such a distribution yields a synthetic graph that mimics important properties of the original sensitive graph and consequently, could be useful for knowledge discovery.