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This paper introduces a statistical model for the arrival times of connection events in a computer network. Edges between nodes in a network can be interpreted and modelled as point processes where events in the process indicate information…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-29 Matthew Price-Williams , Nick Heard

Traditional anomaly detection on social media mostly focuses on individual point anomalies while anomalous phenomena usually occur in groups. Therefore it is valuable to study the collective behavior of individuals and detect group…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Qi , Yu , Xinran He , Yan Liu

Insider trading is one of the numerous white collar crimes that can contribute to the instability of the economy. Traditionally, the detection of illegal insider trades has been a human-driven process. In this paper, we collect the insider…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Adarsh Kulkarni , Priya Mani , Carlotta Domeniconi

Anomaly detection (such as telecom fraud detection and medical image detection) has attracted the increasing attention of people. The complex interaction between multiple entities widely exists in the network, which can reflect specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Xu Yuan , Na Zhou , Shuo Yu , Huafei Huang , Zhikui Chen , Feng Xia

Detecting anomalies in dynamic graphs is a vital task, with numerous practical applications in areas such as security, finance, and social media. Previous network embedding based methods have been mostly focusing on learning good node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Lei Cai , Zhengzhang Chen , Chen Luo , Jiaping Gui , Jingchao Ni , Ding Li , Haifeng Chen

Anomaly detection is a challenging task, particularly in systems with many variables. Anomalies are outliers that statistically differ from the analyzed data and can arise from rare events, malfunctions, or system misuse. This study…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Kleyton da Costa

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 is a relevant problem in the area of data analysis. In networked systems, where individual entities interact in pairs, anomalies are observed when pattern of interactions deviates from patterns considered regular. Properly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Hadiseh Safdari , Caterina De Bacco

Clustering a graph, i.e., assigning its nodes to groups, is an important operation whose best known application is the discovery of communities in social networks. Graph clustering and community detection have traditionally focused on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-09 Cecile Bothorel , Juan David Cruz , Matteo Magnani , Barbora Micenkova

Anomaly detection is an essential task in the analysis of dynamic networks, offering early warnings of abnormal behavior. We present a principled approach to detect anomalies in dynamic networks that integrates community structure as a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Hadiseh Safdari , Caterina De Bacco

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been widely applied to different tasks such as bioinformatics, drug design, and social networks. However, recent studies have shown that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks which aim to mislead the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Xiaojun Xu , Yue Yu , Hanzhang Wang , Alok Lal , Carl A. Gunter , Bo Li

The proliferation of web platforms has created incentives for online abuse. Many graph-based anomaly detection techniques are proposed to identify the suspicious accounts and behaviors. However, most of them detect the anomalies once the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Tong Zhao , Bo Ni , Wenhao Yu , Zhichun Guo , Neil Shah , Meng Jiang

Given a complex graph database of node- and edge-attributed multi-graphs as well as associated metadata for each graph, how can we spot the anomalous instances? Many real-world problems can be cast as graph inference tasks where the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Lingxiao Zhao , Pierre Jinghong Liang , Leman Akoglu

Detecting anomalies in data is a vital task, with numerous high-impact applications in areas such as security, finance, health care, and law enforcement. While numerous techniques have been developed in past years for spotting outliers and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Leman Akoglu , Hanghang Tong , Danai Koutra

Complex networks have now become integral parts of modern information infrastructures. This paper proposes a user-centric method for detecting anomalies in heterogeneous information networks, in which nodes and/or edges might be from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Vahid Ranjbar , Mostafa Salehi , Pegah Jandaghi , Mahdi Jalili

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is widely applied in many areas, such as financial fraud detection and social spammer detection. Anomalous nodes in the graph not only impact their own communities but also create a ripple effect on neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhu Wang , Junnan Dong , Shuang Zhou , Chang Yang , Shengjie Zhao , Xiao Huang

Networks representing complex systems in nature and society usually involve multiple interaction types. These types suggest essential information on the interactions between components, but not all of the existing types are usually…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-27 Wenjie Jia , Manuel S. Mariani , Linyuan Lü , Tao Jiang

Graph-level anomaly detection has become a critical topic in diverse areas, such as financial fraud detection and detecting anomalous activities in social networks. While most research has focused on anomaly detection for visual data such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

Edge features contain important information about graphs. However, current state-of-the-art neural network models designed for graph learning, e.g. graph convolutional networks (GCN) and graph attention networks (GAT), adequately utilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Liyu Gong , Qiang Cheng

Motifs are thought to be some fundamental components of social face-to-face interaction temporal networks. However, the motifs previously considered are either limited to a handful of nodes and edges, or do not include triangles, which are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-19 Didier Le Bail