The paper proposes a method for recovering latent information from graphs under local differential privacy.
The authors show that a standard local differential privacy mechanism induces a specific geometric distortion in the latent positions of generalized random dot-product graphs.
They demonstrate that consistent recovery of the latent positions can be achieved by adjusting the statistical inference procedure for the privatized graph.
The proposed procedure is nearly minimax-optimal under local edge differential privacy constraints and allows for consistent recovery of geometric and topological information.