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A cursory reading of the literature suggests that we have made a lot of progress in designing effective adversarial defenses for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Yet, the standard methodology has a serious flaw - virtually all of the defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Felix Mujkanovic , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann , Aleksandar Bojchevski

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated with graph-structured data for tasks like node classification, a domain traditionally dominated by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). While this integration leverages rich relational…

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Recent studies have shown that deep neural networks-based recommender systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where attackers can inject carefully crafted fake user profiles (i.e., a set of items that fake users have interacted with)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Jingfan Chen , Wenqi Fan , Guanghui Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao , Chunfeng Yuan , Qing Li , Yihua Huang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have led to state-of-the-art performance on a variety of machine learning tasks such as recommendation, node classification and link prediction. Graph neural network models generate node embeddings by merging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yunpeng Weng , Xu Chen , Liang Chen , Wei Liu

Adversarial examples are well-known tools to evaluate the vulnerability of deep neural networks (DNNs). Although lots of adversarial attack algorithms have been developed, it's still challenging in the practical scenario that the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Meixi Zheng , Xuanchen Yan , Zihao Zhu , Hongrui Chen , Baoyuan Wu

Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) are pre-trained on diverse source domains and adapted to unseen targets, enabling broad generalization for graph machine learning. Despite that GFMs have attracted considerable attention recently, their…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in many graph-based tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, many recent works have demonstrated that an attacker can mislead GNN models by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Binghui Wang , Youqi Li , Pan Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as potent models for graph learning. Distributing the training process across multiple computing nodes is the most promising solution to address the challenges of ever-growing real-world graphs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yuxiang Zhang , Xin Liu , Meng Wu , Wei Yan , Mingyu Yan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Deep neural network classifiers suffer from adversarial vulnerability: well-crafted, unnoticeable changes to the input data can affect the classifier decision. In this regard, the study of powerful adversarial attacks can help shed light on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Hadi M. Dolatabadi , Sarah Erfani , Christopher Leckie

Link prediction in dynamic graphs (LPDG) has been widely applied to real-world applications such as website recommendation, traffic flow prediction, organizational studies, etc. These models are usually kept local and secure, with only the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiate Li , Meng Pang , Binghui Wang

Targeted adversarial attack, which aims to mislead a model to recognize any image as a target object by imperceptible perturbations, has become a mainstream tool for vulnerability assessment of deep neural networks (DNNs). Since existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Youheng Sun , Shengming Yuan , Xuanhan Wang , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song

In the scenario of black-box adversarial attack, the target model's parameters are unknown, and the attacker aims to find a successful adversarial perturbation based on query feedback under a query budget. Due to the limited feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Fei Yin , Yong Zhang , Baoyuan Wu , Yan Feng , Jingyi Zhang , Yanbo Fan , Yujiu Yang

Graph neural network (GNN) have demonstrated exceptional performance in solving critical problems across diverse domains yet remain susceptible to backdoor attacks. Existing studies on backdoor attack for graph classification are limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Md Nabi Newaz Khan , Abdullah Arafat Miah , Yu Bi

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful models for anomaly detection in sensor networks, particularly when analyzing multivariate time series. In this work, we introduce BETA, a novel grey-box evasion attack targeting such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Sanju Xaviar , Omid Ardakanian

Backdoor attack is a powerful attack algorithm to deep learning model. Recently, GNN's vulnerability to backdoor attack has been proved especially on graph classification task. In this paper, we propose the first backdoor detection and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Bingchen Jiang , Zhao Li

Many data mining tasks rely on graphs to model relational structures among individuals (nodes). Since relational data are often sensitive, there is an urgent need to evaluate the privacy risks in graph data. One famous privacy attack…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Zhenya Huang , Hao Wang , Chee-Kong Lee , Enhong Chen

Adversarial attacks present a significant risk to the integrity and performance of graph neural networks, particularly in tasks where graph structure and node features are vulnerable to manipulation. In this paper, we present a novel model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shakib Khan , A. Ben Hamza , Amr Youssef

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in relational learning. However, their vulnerability to graph backdoor attacks (GBAs) poses a significant barrier to broader adoption in high-stakes applications. Despite recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mengting Pan , Fan Li , Chen Chen , Xiaoyang Wang

The success of deep learning research has catapulted deep models into production systems that our society is becoming increasingly dependent on, especially in the image and video domains. However, recent work has shown that these largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Nathan Inkawhich , Matthew Inkawhich , Yiran Chen , Hai Li

Graph classification is crucial in network analyses. Networks face potential security threats, such as adversarial attacks. Some defense methods may trade off the algorithm complexity for robustness, such as adversarial training, whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinyin Chen , Haiyang Xiong , Haibin Zhenga , Dunjie Zhang , Jian Zhang , Mingwei Jia , Yi Liu