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Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

In the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are exposed to various kinds of attacks when connected to the Internet. An attack detection mechanism that understands the limitations of these severely resource-constrained devices is necessary. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Nidhi Rastogi , James Hendler

Dynamic networks, also called network streams, are an important data representation that applies to many real-world domains. Many sets of network data such as e-mail networks, social networks, or internet traffic networks are best…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Timothy La Fond , Jennifer Neville , Brian Gallagher

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is a critical task with broad real-world applications, including social networks, e-commerce, and cybersecurity. Most existing methods assume that normal patterns remain stable over time; however, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xiaoyang Xu , Xiaofeng Lin , Koh Takeuchi , Kyohei Atarashi , Hisashi Kashima

Detecting anomalies in time series data is a critical task across many domains. The challenge intensifies when anomalies are sparse and the data are multivariate with relational dependencies across sensors or nodes. Traditional univariate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Sneh Pillai

We propose a novel non-parametric adaptive anomaly detection algorithm for high dimensional data based on score functions derived from nearest neighbor graphs on $n$-point nominal data. Anomalies are declared whenever the score of a test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-10-29 Manqi Zhao , Venkatesh Saligrama

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task since even a few anomalies can pose huge threats to benign users. Recent semi-supervised GAD methods, which can effectively leverage the available labels as prior knowledge, have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shuang Zhou , Xiao Huang , Ninghao Liu , Huachi Zhou , Fu-Lai Chung , Long-Kai Huang

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task since even a few anomalies can pose huge threats to benign users. Recent semi-supervised GAD methods, which can effectively leverage the available labels as prior knowledge, have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuang Zhou , Xiao Huang , Ninghao Liu , Fu-Lai Chung , Long-Kai Huang

Anomaly detection aims to distinguish abnormal instances that deviate significantly from the majority of benign ones. As instances that appear in the real world are naturally connected and can be represented with graphs, graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sheng Tian , Jihai Dong , Jintang Li , Wenlong Zhao , Xiaolong Xu , Baokun wang , Bowen Song , Changhua Meng , Tianyi Zhang , Liang Chen

Anomalies and outliers are common in real-world data, and they can arise from many sources, such as sensor faults. Accordingly, anomaly detection is important both for analyzing the anomalies themselves and for cleaning the data for further…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-13 Haitao Liu , Randy C. Paffenroth , Jian Zou , Chong Zhou

Anomaly-based cyber threat detection using deep learning is on a constant growth in popularity for novel cyber-attack detection and forensics. A robust, efficient, and real-time threat detector in a large-scale operational enterprise…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Krishna Chandra Roy , Qian Chen

We consider the problem of detecting a community of densely connected vertices in a high-dimensional bipartite graph of size $n_1 \times n_2$. Under the null hypothesis, the observed graph is drawn from a bipartite Erd\H{o}s-Renyi…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Julien Chhor , Parker Knight

Recently, graph anomaly detection on attributed networks has attracted growing attention in data mining and machine learning communities. Apart from attribute anomalies, graph anomaly detection also aims at suspicious topological-abnormal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingcan Duan , Bin Xiao , Siwei Wang , Haifang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Processes such as disease propagation and information diffusion often spread over some latent network structure which must be learned from observation. Given a set of unlabeled training examples representing occurrences of an event type of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-01-09 Sriram Somanchi , Daniel B. Neill

Graph anomaly detection in this paper aims to distinguish abnormal nodes that behave differently from the benign ones accounting for the majority of graph-structured instances. Receiving increasing attention from both academia and industry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Fanzhen Liu , Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Amin Beheshti , Chuan Zhou , Hao Peng , Quan Z. Sheng , Charu C. Aggarwal

Anomaly detection is a crucial task in complex distributed systems. A thorough understanding of the requirements and challenges of anomaly detection is pivotal to the security of such systems, especially for real-world deployment. While…

Anomaly detection in continuous-time dynamic graphs is an emerging field yet under-explored in the context of learning algorithms. In this paper, we pioneer structured analyses of link-level anomalies and graph representation learning for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Tim Poštuvan , Claas Grohnfeldt , Michele Russo , Giulio Lovisotto

We study the uniqueness of optimal solutions to extremal graph theory problems. Lovasz conjectured that every finite feasible set of subgraph density constraints can be extended further by a finite set of density constraints so that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-26 Andrzej Grzesik , Daniel Král' , László Miklós Lovász

Anomalies represent deviations from the intended system operation and can lead to decreased efficiency as well as partial or complete system failure. As the causes of anomalies are often unknown due to complex system dynamics, efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Benjamin Lindemann , Benjamin Maschler , Nada Sahlab , Michael Weyrich

This paper looks at the task of network topology inference, where the goal is to learn an unknown graph from nodal observations. One of the novelties of the approach put forth is the consideration of prior information about the density of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Samuel Rey , T. Mitchell Roddenberry , Santiago Segarra , Antonio G. Marques