Empirical Auditing of Edge-Private Graph Generators

arXiv:2609.25155 · stat.ML, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-21 · Read on arXiv

stat.ML, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-21

Updated: 2026-09-21

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The gist: We empirically audit privacy leakage by testing whether outputs from edge-neighbouring inputs remain distinguishable, using statistically valid lower bounds on the privacy loss witnessed by our

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We empirically audit privacy leakage by testing whether outputs from edge-neighbouring inputs remain distinguishable, using statistically valid lower bounds on the privacy loss witnessed by our attacks. Our framework compares direct-edge, local-structural, and GNN-based attacks through the geometry surrounding a target edge. Experiments across two generators and two networks show that privacy leakage is both mechanism- and network-dependent, with learned representations revealing information not captured by conventional local statistics.

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