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Rethinking Graph Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection

Machine Learning 2022-06-01 v1 Signal Processing

Abstract

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely applied for graph anomaly detection. As one of the key components for GNN design is to select a tailored spectral filter, we take the first step towards analyzing anomalies via the lens of the graph spectrum. Our crucial observation is the existence of anomalies will lead to the `right-shift' phenomenon, that is, the spectral energy distribution concentrates less on low frequencies and more on high frequencies. This fact motivates us to propose the Beta Wavelet Graph Neural Network (BWGNN). Indeed, BWGNN has spectral and spatial localized band-pass filters to better handle the `right-shift' phenomenon in anomalies. We demonstrate the effectiveness of BWGNN on four large-scale anomaly detection datasets. Our code and data are released at https://github.com/squareRoot3/Rethinking-Anomaly-Detection

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@article{arxiv.2205.15508,
  title  = {Rethinking Graph Neural Networks for Anomaly Detection},
  author = {Jianheng Tang and Jiajin Li and Ziqi Gao and Jia Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.15508},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted by ICML 2022. Our code and data are released at https://github.com/squareRoot3/Rethinking-Anomaly-Detection

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