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There has been an increased interest in applying machine learning techniques on relational structured-data based on an observed graph. Often, this graph is not fully representative of the true relationship amongst nodes. In these settings,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-05 Florence Regol , Soumyasundar Pal , Jianing Sun , Yingxue Zhang , Yanhui Geng , Mark Coates

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task in graph-based machine learning and has been widely applied in many real-world applications. The primary goal of GAD is to capture anomalous nodes from graph datasets, which evidently deviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jingcan Duan , Siwei Wang , Pei Zhang , En Zhu , Jingtao Hu , Hu Jin , Yue Liu , Zhibin Dong

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task since even a few anomalies can pose huge threats to benign users. Recent semi-supervised GAD methods, which can effectively leverage the available labels as prior knowledge, have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Shuang Zhou , Xiao Huang , Ninghao Liu , Huachi Zhou , Fu-Lai Chung , Long-Kai Huang

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task since even a few anomalies can pose huge threats to benign users. Recent semi-supervised GAD methods, which can effectively leverage the available labels as prior knowledge, have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuang Zhou , Xiao Huang , Ninghao Liu , Fu-Lai Chung , Long-Kai Huang

Anomaly detection on attributed networks aims to find the nodes whose behaviors are significantly different from other majority nodes. Generally, network data contains information about relationships between entities, and the anomaly is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Enbo He , Yitong Hao , Yue Zhang , Guisheng Yin , Lina Yao

The task of graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) is to identify anomalous graphs that deviate significantly from the majority of graphs in a dataset. While deep GLAD methods have shown promising performance, their black-box nature limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiuran Zhao , Kai Ming Ting , Xinpeng Li

Predicting properties of nodes in a graph is an important problem with applications in a variety of domains. Graph-based Semi-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods aim to address this problem by labeling a small subset of the nodes as seeds and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Shikhar Vashishth , Prateek Yadav , Manik Bhandari , Partha Talukdar

Detecting anomalies in dynamic graphs is a vital task, with numerous practical applications in areas such as security, finance, and social media. Previous network embedding based methods have been mostly focusing on learning good node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Lei Cai , Zhengzhang Chen , Chen Luo , Jiaping Gui , Jingchao Ni , Ding Li , Haifeng Chen

Given a stream of heterogeneous graphs containing different types of nodes and edges, how can we spot anomalous ones in real-time while consuming bounded memory? This problem is motivated by and generalizes from its application in security…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-23 Emaad A. Manzoor , Sadegh Momeni , Venkat N. Venkatakrishnan , Leman Akoglu

Graph-based anomaly detection is pivotal in diverse security applications, such as fraud detection in transaction networks and intrusion detection for network traffic. Standard approaches, including Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Andy Zhou , Xiaojun Xu , Ramesh Raghunathan , Alok Lal , Xinze Guan , Bin Yu , Bo Li

Given a graph with node attributes, what neighborhoods are anomalous? To answer this question, one needs a quality score that utilizes both structure and attributes. Popular existing measures either quantify the structure only and ignore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-26 Bryan Perozzi , Leman Akoglu

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) has recently become a hot research spot due to its practicability and theoretical value. Since GAD emphasizes the application and the rarity of anomalous samples, enriching the varieties of its datasets is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Xuanwen Huang , Yang Yang , Yang Wang , Chunping Wang , Zhisheng Zhang , Jiarong Xu , Lei Chen , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Graph-level anomaly detection aims to identify anomalous graphs or subgraphs within graph datasets, playing a vital role in various fields such as fraud detection, review classification, and biochemistry. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Liting Li , Yumeng Wang , Yueheng Sun

We focus on developing a novel scalable graph-based semi-supervised learning (SSL) method for a small number of labeled data and a large amount of unlabeled data. Due to the lack of labeled data and the availability of large-scale unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Zitong Wang , Li Wang , Raymond Chan , Tieyong Zeng

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify irregular patterns in graph-structured data. Most unsupervised GNN-based methods rely on the homophily assumption that connected nodes share similar attributes. However, real-world graphs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zehao Wang , Lanjun Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success on a node classification task. Despite the broad interest in developing and evaluating GNNs, they have been assessed with limited benchmark datasets. As a result, the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Seiji Maekawa , Koki Noda , Yuya Sasaki , Makoto Onizuka

Anomaly detection from graph data has drawn much attention due to its practical significance in many critical applications including cybersecurity, finance, and social networks. Existing data mining and machine learning methods are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yu Zheng , Ming Jin , Yixin Liu , Lianhua Chi , Khoa T. Phan , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

Tracking a targeted subset of nodes in an evolving graph is important for many real-world applications. Existing methods typically focus on identifying anomalous edges or finding anomaly graph snapshots in a stream way. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Xingzhi Guo , Baojian Zhou , Steven Skiena

This paper introduces a novel graph-analytic approach for detecting anomalies in network flow data called GraphPrints. Building on foundational network-mining techniques, our method represents time slices of traffic as a graph, then counts…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-04 Christopher R. Harshaw , Robert A. Bridges , Michael D. Iannacone , Joel W. Reed , John R. Goodall

Graph-level anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal graphs that exhibit deviant structures and node attributes compared to the majority in a graph set. One primary challenge is to learn normal patterns manifested in both fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen