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Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant challenges to their deployment in safety-critical scenarios. This vulnerability has spurred a growing focus on designing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tao Wu , Canyixing Cui , Xingping Xian , Shaojie Qiao , Chao Wang , Lin Yuan , Shui Yu

This paper studies the vulnerability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to adversarial attacks on node features and graph structure. Various methods have implemented adversarial training to augment graph data, aiming to bolster the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinluan Yang , Ruihao Zhang , Zhengyu Chen , Fei Wu , Kun Kuang

We propose a new method for embedding graphs while preserving directed edge information. Learning such continuous-space vector representations (or embeddings) of nodes in a graph is an important first step for using network information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Sami Abu-El-Haija , Bryan Perozzi , Rami Al-Rfou

Graph modeling allows numerous security problems to be tackled in a general way, however, little work has been done to understand their ability to withstand adversarial attacks. We design and evaluate two novel graph attacks against a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Yizheng Chen , Yacin Nadji , Athanasios Kountouras , Fabian Monrose , Roberto Perdisci , Manos Antonakakis , Nikolaos Vasiloglou

As neural networks become the tool of choice to solve an increasing variety of problems in our society, adversarial attacks become critical. The possibility of generating data instances deliberately designed to fool a network's analysis can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Gabriel D. Cantareira , Rodrigo F. Mello , Fernando V. Paulovich

Graph neural networks have been widely utilized to solve graph-related tasks because of their strong learning power in utilizing the local information of neighbors. However, recent studies on graph adversarial attacks have proven that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Junyuan Fang , Han Yang , Haixian Wen , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

In this paper, we investigate the impact of neural networks (NNs) topology on adversarial robustness. Specifically, we study the graph produced when an input traverses all the layers of a NN, and show that such graphs are different for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Morgane Goibert , Thomas Ricatte , Elvis Dohmatob

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful in learning rich network representations that aid the performance of downstream tasks. However, recent studies showed that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks involving node injection and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Ansh Kumar Sharma , Rahul Kukreja , Mayank Kharbanda , Tanmoy Chakraborty

With the rising interest in graph representation learning, a variety of approaches have been proposed to effectively capture a graph's properties. While these approaches have improved performance in graph machine learning tasks compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Antonia Gogoglou , C. Bayan Bruss , Keegan E. Hines

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used in many applications. However, their robustness against adversarial attacks is criticized. Prior studies show that using unnoticeable modifications on graph topology or nodal features can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Xianfeng Tang , Yandong Li , Yiwei Sun , Huaxiu Yao , Prasenjit Mitra , Suhang Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many graph learning tasks. However, recent studies show that GNNs are vulnerable to both test-time evasion and training-time poisoning attacks that perturb the graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Binghui Wang , Meng Pang , Yun Dong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) which apply the deep neural networks to graph data have achieved significant performance for the task of semi-supervised node classification. However, only few work has addressed the adversarial robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Kaidi Xu , Hongge Chen , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsui-Wei Weng , Mingyi Hong , Xue Lin

Graph neural networks (GNNs) offer promising learning methods for graph-related tasks. However, GNNs are at risk of adversarial attacks. Two primary limitations of the current evasion attack methods are highlighted: (1) The current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-08 He Zhang , Xingliang Yuan , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan

Before executing an attack, adversaries usually explore the victim's network in an attempt to infer the network topology and identify vulnerabilities in the victim's servers and personal computers. Falsifying the information collected by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Rami Puzis , Hadar Polad , Bracha Shapira

Federated learning is a popular strategy for training models on distributed, sensitive data, while preserving data privacy. Prior work identified a range of security threats on federated learning protocols that poison the data or the model.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Giorgio Severi , Matthew Jagielski , Gökberk Yar , Yuxuan Wang , Alina Oprea , Cristina Nita-Rotaru

Recently, the surge in popularity of Internet of Things (IoT), mobile devices, social media, etc. has opened up a large source for graph data. Graph embedding has been proved extremely useful to learn low-dimensional feature representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Kaiyang Li , Guangchun Luo , Yang Ye , Wei Li , Shihao Ji , Zhipeng Cai

We present evidence for the existence and effectiveness of adversarial attacks on graph neural networks (GNNs) that aim to degrade fairness. These attacks can disadvantage a particular subgroup of nodes in GNN-based node classification,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Hussain Hussain , Meng Cao , Sandipan Sikdar , Denis Helic , Elisabeth Lex , Markus Strohmaier , Roman Kern

Network embedding assigns nodes in a network to low-dimensional representations and effectively preserves the network structure. Recently, a significant amount of progresses have been made toward this emerging network analysis paradigm. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-27 Peng Cui , Xiao Wang , Jian Pei , Wenwu Zhu

Neural Networks (NNs) are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Such inputs differ only slightly from their benign counterparts yet provoke misclassifications of the attacked NNs. The required perturbations to craft the examples are often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

Network embedding has attracted an increasing attention over the past few years. As an effective approach to solve graph mining problems, network embedding aims to learn a low-dimensional feature vector representation for each node of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Xiao Shen , Fu-Lai Chung