Misclassification Rate and Privacy-Utility Trade-offs in Graph Convolutional Networks via Subsampling Stability

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Abstract

We study differential privacy (DP) in Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) through the framework of \textit{subsampling stability}. We derive upper bounds on the misclassification rate that depend explicitly on the subsampling probability psp_s. Furthermore, we characterize the \textit{privacy--utility trade-off} by identifying feasible ranges of psp_s; if psp_s is too large, the stability-based privacy condition becomes difficult to satisfy, yielding vacuous guarantees, whereas if it is too small, accuracy deteriorates. Our results provide the first rigorous theoretical framework for understanding subsampling stability in GCNs under DP.

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