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To protect an organizations' endpoints from sophisticated cyberattacks, advanced detection methods are required. In this research, we present GCNetOmaly: a graph convolutional network (GCN)-based variational autoencoder (VAE) anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Yizhak Vaisman , Gilad Katz , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Detecting anomalies on network traffic is a complex task due to the massive amount of traffic flows in today's networks, as well as the highly-dynamic nature of traffic over time. In this paper, we propose the use of Graph Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hamid Latif-Martínez , José Suárez-Varela , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Pere Barlet-Ros

Outliers are samples that are generated by different mechanisms from other normal data samples. Graphs, in particular social network graphs, may contain nodes and edges that are made by scammers, malicious programs or mistakenly by normal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Honglei Zhang , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

The detection of anomaly subgraphs naturally appears in various real-life tasks, yet label noise seriously interferes with the result. As a motivation for our work, we focus on inaccurate supervision and use prior knowledge to reduce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Xinyue Zhang , Nannan Wu , Zixu Zhen , Wenjun Wang

This study investigates fraud detection in ride hailing platforms through Graph Neural Networks (GNNs),focusing on the effectiveness of various models. By analyzing prevalent fraudulent activities, the research highlights and compares the…

Several applications have a community structure where the nodes of the same community share similar attributes. Anomaly or outlier detection in networks is a relevant and widely studied research topic with applications in various domains.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Rodrigo Francisquini , Ana Carolina Lorena , Mariá C. V. Nascimento

Node outlier detection in attributed graphs is a challenging problem for which there is no method that would work well across different datasets. Motivated by the state-of-the-art results of score-based models in graph generative modeling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Dmitrii Gavrilev , Evgeny Burnaev

Monitoring of networks for anomaly detection has attracted a lot of attention in recent years especially with the rise of connected devices and social networks. This is of importance as anomaly detection could span a wide range of…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-08 Tomilayo Komolafe , A. Valeria Quevedo , Srijan Sengupta , William H. Woodall

Anomaly event detection is crucial for critical infrastructure security(transportation system, social-ecological sector, insurance service, government sector etc.) due to its ability to reveal and address the potential cyber-threats in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yipeng Ji , Jingyi Wang , Shaoning Li , Yangyang Li , Shenwen Lin , Xiong Li

Graph anomaly detection has gained significant attention across various domains, particularly in critical applications like fraud detection in e-commerce platforms and insider threat detection in cybersecurity. Usually, these data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Lecheng Zheng , John R. Birge , Haiyue Wu , Yifang Zhang , Jingrui He

Network management and security is currently one of the most vibrant research areas, among which, research on detecting and identifying anomalies has attracted a lot of interest. Researchers are still struggling to find an effective and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Huy Nguyen , Tam Van Nguyen , Dong Il Kim , Deokjai Choi

Detecting anomalies is important for identifying inefficiencies, errors, or fraud in business processes. Traditional process mining approaches focus on analyzing 'flattened', sequential, event logs based on a single case notion. However,…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-05 Alessandro Niro , Michael Werner

In recent years, graph anomaly detection has found extensive applications in various domains such as social, financial, and communication networks. However, anomalies in graph-structured data present unique challenges, including label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yuxuan Cao , Jiarong Xu , Chen Zhao , Jiaan Wang , Carl Yang , Chunping Wang , Yang Yang

Social media data are often modeled as heterogeneous graphs with multiple types of nodes and edges. We present a discovery algorithm that first chooses a "background" graph based on a user's analytical interest and then automatically…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Subhasis Dasgupta , Amarnath Gupta

Anomaly detection is critical for finding suspicious behavior in innumerable systems. We need to detect anomalies in real-time, i.e. determine if an incoming entity is anomalous or not, as soon as we receive it, to minimize the effects of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Siddharth Bhatia

A significant number of anomalous nodes in the real world, such as fake news, noncompliant users, malicious transactions, and malicious posts, severely compromises the health of the graph data ecosystem and urgently requires effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiong Zhang , Hong Peng , Changlong Fu , Xin Jin , Yun Yang , Cheng Xie

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a critical task in graph machine learning, with the primary objective of identifying anomalous nodes that deviate significantly from the majority. This task is widely applied in various real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xiang Li , Jianpeng Qi , Zhongying Zhao , Guanjie Zheng , Lei Cao , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

Anomaly detection is a branch of data analysis and machine learning which aims at identifying observations that exhibit abnormal behaviour. Be it measurement errors, disease development, severe weather, production quality default(s) (items)…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-11 Pavlo Mozharovskyi , Romain Valla

The popularity of online social networks has enabled rapid dissemination of information. People now can share and consume information much more rapidly than ever before. However, low-quality and/or accidentally/deliberately fake information…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuzhi Gong , Richard O. Sinnott , Jianzhong Qi , Cecile Paris

Many machine learning methods have been proposed to achieve accurate transaction fraud detection, which is essential to the financial security of individuals and banks. However, most existing methods leverage original features only or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yue Tian , Guanjun Liu , Jiacun Wang , Mengchu Zhou