학술논문

Large Graph Signal Denoising With Application to Differential Privacy
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks IEEE Trans. on Signal and Inf. Process. over Networks Signal and Information Processing over Networks, IEEE Transactions on. 8:788-798 2022
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Laplace equations
Chebyshev approximation
Wavelet transforms
Noise reduction
Monte Carlo methods
Differential privacy
Symmetric matrices
Chebyshev polynomial approximation
differen- tial privacy
graph signal processing
Monte-Carlo methods
Stein's unbiased risk estimate
Language
ISSN
2373-776X
2373-7778
Abstract
Over the last decade, signal processing on graphs has become a very active area of research. Specifically, the number of applications, for instance in statistical or deep learning, using frames built from graphs, such as wavelets on graphs, has increased significantly. We consider in particular the case of signal denoising on graphs via a data-driven wavelet tight frame methodology. This adaptive approach is based on a threshold calibrated using Stein's unbiased risk estimate adapted to a tight-frame representation. We make it scalable to large graphs using Chebyshev-Jackson polynomial approximations, which allow fast computation of the wavelet coefficients, without the need to compute the Laplacian eigendecomposition. However, the overcomplete nature of the tight-frame, transforms a white noise into a correlated one. As a result, the covariance of the transformed noise appears in the divergence term of the SURE, thus requiring the computation and storage of the frame, which leads to an impractical calculation for large graphs. To estimate such covariance, we develop and analyze a Monte-Carlo strategy, based on the fast transformation of zero mean and unit variance random variables. This new data-driven denoising methodology finds a natural application in differential privacy. A comprehensive performance analysis is carried out on graphs of varying size, from real and simulated data.