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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yiwei Zhang

Graph embedding is a transformation of nodes of a graph into a set of vectors. A~good embedding should capture the graph topology, node-to-node relationship, and other relevant information about the graph, its subgraphs, and nodes. If these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Arash Dehghan-Kooshkghazi , Bogumił Kamiński , Łukasz Kraiński , Paweł Prałat , François Théberge

In shaping the Internet of Money, the application of blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) to the financial sector triggered regulatory concerns. Notably, while the user anonymity enabled in this field may safeguard privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Nadia Pocher , Mirko Zichichi , Fabio Merizzi , Muhammad Zohaib Shafiq , Stefano Ferretti

This paper explores the utilization of Temporal Graph Networks (TGN) for financial anomaly detection, a pressing need in the era of fintech and digitized financial transactions. We present a comprehensive framework that leverages TGN,…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-04-02 Yejin Kim , Youngbin Lee , Minyoung Choe , Sungju Oh , Yongjae Lee

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

Illicit financial activities such as money laundering often manifest through recurrent topological patterns in transaction networks. Detecting these patterns automatically remains challenging due to the scarcity of labeled real-world data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Francesco Zola , Lucia Muñoz , Andrea Venturi , Amaia Gil

Many irregular domains such as social networks, financial transactions, neuron connections, and natural language constructs are represented using graph structures. In recent years, a variety of graph neural networks (GNNs) have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Osman Asif Malik , Shashanka Ubaru , Lior Horesh , Misha E. Kilmer , Haim Avron

This study proposes an algorithm for detecting suspicious behaviors in large payment flows based on deep generative models. By combining Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and Variational Autoencoders (VAE), the algorithm is designed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Tengda Tang , Jianhua Yao , Yixian Wang , Qiuwu Sha , Hanrui Feng , Zhen Xu

Identifying influential nodes in complex networks is of great importance, and has many applications in practice. For example, finding influential nodes in e-commerce network can provide merchants with customers with strong purchase intent;…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yanmei Hu , Siyuan Yin , Yihang Wu , Xue Yue , Yue Liu

Graph Nerual Networks (GNNs) are effective models in graph embedding. It extracts shallow features and neighborhood information by aggregating neighbor information to learn the embedding representation of different nodes. However, the local…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Kejia Zhang

It has been observed that message-passing graph neural networks (GNN) sometimes struggle to maintain a healthy balance between the efficient/scalable modeling of long-range dependencies across nodes while avoiding unintended consequences…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yongyi Yang , Tang Liu , Yangkun Wang , Zengfeng Huang , David Wipf

Representation learning provides new and powerful graph analytical approaches and tools for the highly valued data science challenge of mining knowledge graphs. Since previous graph analytical methods have mostly focused on homogeneous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Zheng Gao , Gang Fu , Chunping Ouyang , Satoshi Tsutsui , Xiaozhong Liu , Jeremy Yang , Christopher Gessner , Brian Foote , David Wild , Qi Yu , Ying Ding

We present, GEM, the first heterogeneous graph neural network approach for detecting malicious accounts at Alipay, one of the world's leading mobile cashless payment platform. Our approach, inspired from a connected subgraph approach,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Ziqi Liu , Chaochao Chen , Xinxing Yang , Jun Zhou , Xiaolong Li , Le Song

Existing network embedding approaches tackle the problem of learning low-dimensional node representations. However, networks can also be seen in the light of edges interlinking pairs of nodes. The broad goal of this paper is to introduce…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Giuseppe Pirrò

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 success of graph embeddings or node representation learning in a variety of downstream tasks, such as node classification, link prediction, and recommendation systems, has led to their popularity in recent years. Representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Saba A. Al-Sayouri , Danai Koutra , Evangelos E. Papalexakis , Sarah S. Lam

Edge intelligence has arisen as a promising computing paradigm for supporting miscellaneous smart applications that rely on machine learning techniques. While the community has extensively investigated multi-tier edge deployment for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Liekang Zeng , Chongyu Yang , Peng Huang , Zhi Zhou , Shuai Yu , Xu Chen

Recent studies on Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) reveal that the initial node representations (i.e., the node representations before the first-time graph convolution) largely affect the final model performance. However, when learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Weijian Chen , Fuli Feng , Qifan Wang , Xiangnan He , Chonggang Song , Guohui Ling , Yongdong Zhang

Graph embedding, aiming to learn low-dimensional representations (aka. embeddings) of nodes, has received significant attention recently. Recent years have witnessed a surge of efforts made on static graphs, among which Graph Convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Zeyu Cui , Zekun Li , Shu Wu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang , Mengmeng Ai

Recent advances in deep learning methods have enabled researchers to develop and apply algorithms for the analysis and modeling of complex networks. These advances have sparked a surge of interest at the interface between network science…