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As machine learning models become increasingly prevalent in critical decision-making models and systems in fields like finance, healthcare, etc., ensuring their robustness against adversarial attacks and changes in the input data is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-05 Arun Prakash R , Anwesha Bhattacharyya , Joel Vaughan , Vijayan N. Nair

This study investigates the robustness of graph embedding methods for community detection in the face of network perturbations, specifically edge deletions. Graph embedding techniques, which represent nodes as low-dimensional vectors, are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-05 Zhi-Feng Wei , Pablo Moriano , Ramakrishnan Kannan

We present a new approach to assessing the robustness of neural networks based on estimating the proportion of inputs for which a property is violated. Specifically, we estimate the probability of the event that the property is violated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-25 Stefan Webb , Tom Rainforth , Yee Whye Teh , M. Pawan Kumar

This work develops a flexible and mathematically sound framework for the design and analysis of graph scattering networks with variable branching ratios and generic functional calculus filters. Spectrally-agnostic stability guarantees for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Christian Koke , Gitta Kutyniok

Cascading failures are one of the main reasons for blackouts in electrical power grids. Stable power supply requires a robust design of the power grid topology. Currently, the impact of the grid structure on the grid robustness is mainly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-26 Xiangrong Wang , Yakup Koç , Robert E. Kooij , Piet Van Mieghem

Graphs are pervasive in our everyday lives, with relevance to biology, the internet, and infrastructure, as well as numerous other applications. It is thus necessary to have an understanding as to how quickly a graph disintegrates, whether…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Jeremie Fish , Mahesh Banavar , Erik Bollt

The adversarial robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has been questioned due to the false sense of security uncovered by strong adaptive attacks despite the existence of numerous defenses. In this work, we delve into the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zhichao Hou , Ruiqi Feng , Tyler Derr , Xiaorui Liu

The robustness of the much-used Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) to perturbations of their input is becoming a topic of increasing importance. In this paper, the random GCN is introduced for which a random matrix theory analysis is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Changmin Wu , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis

This article introduces a new approach to discrete curvature based on the concept of effective resistances. We propose a curvature on the nodes and links of a graph and present the evidence for their interpretation as a curvature. Notably,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Karel Devriendt , Renaud Lambiotte

Robustness to adversarial attacks is typically evaluated with adversarial accuracy. While essential, this metric does not capture all aspects of robustness and in particular leaves out the question of how many perturbations can be found for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Raphael Olivier , Bhiksha Raj

Weighted digraphs are used to model a variety of natural systems and can exhibit interesting structure across a range of scales. In order to understand and compare these systems, we require stable, interpretable, multiscale descriptors. To…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2024-11-08 Thomas Chaplin , Heather A. Harrington , Ulrike Tillmann

Infrastructure networks such as the Internet backbone and power grids are essential for our everyday lives. With the prevalence of cyber-attacks on them, measuring their robustness has become an important issue. To date, many robustness…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Weisheng Si , Balume Mburano , Wei Xing Zheng , Tie Qiu

Community detection plays a key role in understanding graph structure. However, several recent studies showed that community detection is vulnerable to adversarial structural perturbation. In particular, via adding or removing a small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Jinyuan Jia , Binghui Wang , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) are nonlinear processing tools to learn representations from network data. A key property of GCNNs is their stability to graph perturbations. Current analysis considers deterministic perturbations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Zhan Gao , Elvin Isufi , Alejandro Ribeiro

This paper studies the problem of designing networks that are strong structurally controllable, and robust simultaneously. For given network specifications, including the number of nodes $N$, the number of leaders $N_L$, and diameter $D$,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Priyanshkumar I. Patel , Johir Suresh , Waseem Abbas

We investigate certain structural properties of random interdependent networks. We start by studying a property known as $r$-robustness, which is a strong indicator of the ability of a network to tolerate structural perturbations and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Ebrahim Moradi Shahrivar , Mohammad Pirani , Shreyas Sundaram

Our goal in this paper is the robust design of filters acting on signals observed over graphs subject to small perturbations of their edges. The focus is on developing a method to identify spectral and polynomial graph filters that can…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lucia Testa , Stefania Sardellitti , Sergio Barbarossa

The discovery of community structure is a common challenge in the analysis of network data. Many methods have been proposed for finding community structure, but few have been proposed for determining whether the structure found is…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-04-29 Brian Karrer , Elizaveta Levina , M. E. J. Newman

In this paper, we study the robustness of graph convolutional networks (GCNs). Despite the good performance of GCNs on graph semi-supervised learning tasks, previous works have shown that the original GCNs are very unstable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xiaoyun Wang , Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Graph embedding techniques are a staple of modern graph learning research. When using embeddings for downstream tasks such as classification, information about their stability and robustness, i.e., their susceptibility to sources of noise,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Celia Hacker , Bastian Rieck