Research Article

Differentially Private Attributed Network Releasing Based on Early Fusion

Algorithm 2

Differentially private attributed network publishing algorithm based on hyperparameter (DP-ANPHP).
Input: node dataset V, attribute dataset , group number K, privacy parameter , maximum iterations .
Output: sanitized attribute network .
(1)Initialize the attribute network from V,, and K.
(2)Initialize .
(3)for t = 1,…,do
(4) Given , compute from equations (12)–(15).
(5) Given , compute from equation (16).
(6) Compute .
(7)end for
(8)Choose , , .
(9)Choose , , .
(10)return.