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Graph anomaly detection has long been an important problem in various domains pertaining to information security such as financial fraud, social spam and network intrusion. The majority of existing methods are performed in an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiongxiao Xu , Kaize Ding , Canyu Chen , Kai Shu

Identifying critical nodes and links in graphs is a crucial task. These nodes/links typically represent critical elements/communication links that play a key role in a system's performance. However, a majority of the methods available in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sai Munikoti , Laya Das , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

With the growing complexity of cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructures such as water treatment networks, there is a pressing need for robust anomaly detection strategies that account for both system vulnerabilities and evolving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Haoyue Bai , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

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

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

Graph anomaly detection plays a vital role for identifying abnormal instances in complex networks. Despite advancements of methodology based on deep learning in recent years, existing benchmarking approaches exhibit limitations that hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jing Gu , Dongmian Zou

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify unusual patterns in graph-based data, with wide applications in fields such as web security and financial fraud detection. Existing methods typically rely on contrastive learning, assuming that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Di Jin , Jingyi Cao , Xiaobao Wang , Bingdao Feng , Dongxiao He , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

We propose a new approach, the calibrated nonparametric scan statistic (CNSS), for more accurate detection of anomalous patterns in large-scale, real-world graphs. Scan statistics identify connected subgraphs that are interesting or…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-28 Chunpai Wang , Daniel B. Neill , Feng Chen

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes or substructures whose behavior or attributes deviate significantly from the overall pattern in graph-structured data, with critical applications in financial risk control, social network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxin Yang , Limei Hu , Feng Chen

Graph structure patterns are widely used to model different area data recently. How to detect anomalous graph information on these graph data has become a popular research problem. The objective of this research is centered on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Fu Lin , Haonan Gong , Mingkang Li , Zitong Wang , Yue Zhang , Xuexiong Luo

Graph neural networks have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy for graph node classification. However, GNNs are difficult to scale to large graphs, for example frequently encountering out-of-memory errors on even moderate size graphs. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Ziyuan Wang , Feiming Yang , Rui Fan

To detect anomalies in real-world graphs, such as social, email, and financial networks, various approaches have been developed. While they typically assume static input graphs, most real-world graphs grow over time, naturally represented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Jongha Lee , Sunwoo Kim , Kijung Shin

In the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are exposed to various kinds of attacks when connected to the Internet. An attack detection mechanism that understands the limitations of these severely resource-constrained devices is necessary. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Nidhi Rastogi , James Hendler

In the real world, anomalous entities often add more legitimate connections while hiding direct links with other anomalous entities, leading to heterophilic structures in anomalous networks that most GNN-based techniques fail to address.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zengyi Wo , Wenjun Wang , Minglai Shao , Chang Liu , Yumeng Wang , Yueheng Sun

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to identify unusual graph instances (nodes, edges, subgraphs, or graphs), has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to its significance in a wide range of applications. Deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hezhe Qiao , Hanghang Tong , Bo An , Irwin King , Charu Aggarwal , Guansong Pang

Given a dynamic graph stream, how can we detect the sudden appearance of anomalous patterns, such as link spam, follower boosting, or denial of service attacks? Additionally, can we categorize the types of anomalies that occur in practice,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Minji Yoon , Bryan Hooi , Kijung Shin , Christos Faloutsos

Different from the current node-level anomaly detection task, the goal of graph-level anomaly detection is to find abnormal graphs that significantly differ from others in a graph set. Due to the scarcity of research on the work of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Fu Lin , Xuexiong Luo , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Zitong Wang , Haonan Gong

Exploring small connected and induced subgraph patterns (CIS patterns, or graphlets) has recently attracted considerable attention. Despite recent efforts on computing the number of instances a specific graphlet appears in a large graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Pinghui Wang , Xiangliang Zhang , Zhenguo Li , Jiefeng Cheng , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Junzhou Zhao , Jing Tao , Xiaohong Guan

Graph anomaly detection has attracted considerable attention from various domain ranging from network security to finance in recent years. Due to the fact that labeling is very costly, existing methods are predominately developed in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Hwan Kim , Junghoon Kim , Byung Suk Lee , Sungsu Lim

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is critical for identifying abnormal nodes in graph-structured data from diverse domains, including cybersecurity and social networks. The existing GAD methods often focus on the learning paradigms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Yu Zheng , Qingfeng Chen , Chengqi Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Shirui Pan