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In the web era, graph machine learning has been widely used on ubiquitous graph-structured data. As a pivotal component for bolstering web security and enhancing the robustness of graph-based applications, the significance of graph anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Wenjing Chang , Kay Liu , Kaize Ding , Philip S. Yu , Jianjun Yu

We propose a simple yet effective method for detecting anomalous instances on an attribute graph with label information of a small number of instances. Although with standard anomaly detection methods it is usually assumed that instances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-28 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Correlation analysis is a fundamental problem in statistics. In this paper, we consider the correlation detection problem between a pair of Erdos-Renyi graphs. Specifically, the problem is formulated as a hypothesis testing problem: under…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Dong Huang , Pengkun Yang

Network anomaly detection aims to find network elements (e.g., nodes, edges, subgraphs) with significantly different behaviors from the vast majority. It has a profound impact in a variety of applications ranging from finance, healthcare to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Kaize Ding , Qinghai Zhou , Hanghang Tong , Huan Liu

This paper has dual aims. First is to develop practical universal coding methods for unlabeled graphs. Second is to use these for graph anomaly detection. The paper develops two coding methods for unlabeled graphs: one based on the degree…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Anders Host-Madsen , June Zhang

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has attracted increasing attention in machine learning and data mining. Recent works have mainly focused on how to capture richer information to improve the quality of node embeddings for GAD. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingcan Duan , Pei Zhang , Siwei Wang , Jingtao Hu , Hu Jin , Jiaxin Zhang , Haifang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

This paper investigates the active sampling for estimation of approximately bandlimited graph signals. With the assistance of a graph filter, an approximately bandlimited graph signal can be formulated by a Gaussian random field over the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-19 Sijie Lin , Xuan Xie , Hui Feng , Bo Hu

Given sensor readings over time from a power grid, how can we accurately detect when an anomaly occurs? A key part of achieving this goal is to use the network of power grid sensors to quickly detect, in real-time, when any unusual events,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Shimiao Li , Amritanshu Pandey , Bryan Hooi , Christos Faloutsos , Larry Pileggi

Given a dynamic graph stream, how can we detect the sudden appearance of anomalous patterns, such as link spam, follower boosting, or denial of service attacks? Additionally, can we categorize the types of anomalies that occur in practice,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Minji Yoon , Bryan Hooi , Kijung Shin , Christos Faloutsos

This work presents AEGIS, a novel mixed-signal framework for real-time anomaly detection by examining sensor stream statistics. AEGIS utilizes Kernel Density Estimation (KDE)-based non-parametric density estimation to generate a real-time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-24 Ahish Shylendra , Priyesh Shukla , Saibal Mukhopadhyay , Swarup Bhunia , Amit Ranjan Trivedi

In order to detect patterns in real networks, randomized graph ensembles that preserve only part of the topology of an observed network are systematically used as fundamental null models. However, their generation is still problematic. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-01-14 Tiziano Squartini , Diego Garlaschelli

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to identify abnormal nodes that differ from the majority within a graph, has garnered significant attention. However, current GAD methods necessitate training specific to each dataset, resulting in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Yu Zheng , Qingfeng Chen , Chengqi Zhang , Shirui Pan

Anomaly detection on dynamic graphs refers to detecting entities whose behaviors obviously deviate from the norms observed within graphs and their temporal information. This field has drawn increasing attention due to its application in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shiqi Lou , Qingyue Zhang , Shujie Yang , Yuyang Tian , Zhaoxuan Tan , Minnan Luo

Learning the network structure of a large graph is computationally demanding, and dynamically monitoring the network over time for any changes in structure threatens to be more challenging still. This paper presents a two-stage method for…

Applications · Statistics 2010-11-09 Nicholas A. Heard , David J. Weston , Kiriaki Platanioti , David J. Hand

Detecting unusual patterns in graph data is a crucial task in data mining. However, existing methods face challenges in consistently achieving satisfactory performance and often lack interpretability, which hinders our understanding of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Yifei Yang , Peng Wang , Xiaofan He , Dongmian Zou

This paper studies the problem of detecting anomalous graphs using a machine learning model trained on only normal graphs, which has many applications in molecule, biology, and social network data analysis. We present a self-discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jinyu Cai , Yunhe Zhang , Jicong Fan

In this article, we revisit and expand our prior work on graph similarity. As with our earlier work, we focus on a view of similarity which does not require node correspondence between graphs under comparison. Our work is suited to the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Pierre Miasnikof , Alexander Y. Shetopaloff

Anomaly detection is widely used to distinguish system anomalies by analyzing the temporal and spatial features of wireless sensor network (WSN) data streams; it is one of critical technique that ensures the reliability of WSNs. Currently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qinghao Zhang , Miao Ye , Hongbing Qiu , Yong Wang , Xiaofang Deng

Monitoring of networks for anomaly detection has attracted a lot of attention in recent years especially with the rise of connected devices and social networks. This is of importance as anomaly detection could span a wide range of…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-08 Tomilayo Komolafe , A. Valeria Quevedo , Srijan Sengupta , William H. Woodall

The robustness and anomaly detection capability of neural networks are crucial topics for their safe adoption in the real-world. Moreover, the over-parameterization of recent networks comes with high computational costs and raises questions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Morgane Ayle , Bertrand Charpentier , John Rachwan , Daniel Zügner , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann