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The existing research on robust Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) fails to acknowledge the significance of directed graphs in providing rich information about networks' inherent structure. This work presents the first investigation into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zhichao Hou , Xitong Zhang , Wei Wang , Charu C. Aggarwal , Xiaorui Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in handling graph-structured data; however, they exhibit failures after deployment, which can cause severe consequences. Hence, conducting thorough testing before deployment…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Lichen Yang , Qiang Wang , Zhonghao Yang , Daojing He , Yu Li

We investigate certified robustness for GNNs under graph injection attacks. Existing research only provides sample-wise certificates by verifying each node independently, leading to very limited certifying performance. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuni Lai , Bailin Pan , Kaihuang Chen , Yancheng Yuan , Kai Zhou

Graph structure learning aims to learn connectivity in a graph from data. It is particularly important for many computer vision related tasks since no explicit graph structure is available for images for most cases. A natural way to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Yaohua Wang , FangYi Zhang , Ming Lin , Senzhang Wang , Xiuyu Sun , Rong Jin

High sensitivity of neural networks against malicious perturbations on inputs causes security concerns. To take a steady step towards robust classifiers, we aim to create neural network models provably defended from perturbations. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Yusuke Tsuzuku , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

A machine learning model is traditionally considered robust if its prediction remains (almost) constant under input perturbations with small norm. However, real-world tasks like molecular property prediction or point cloud segmentation have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jan Schuchardt , Yan Scholten , Stephan Günnemann

Graph-learning algorithms can fail when graph structure is adversarially perturbed, intrinsically noisy or constructed from imperfect observations. Here we show that some nodes bear much greater responsibility than others for allowing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yongyu Wang

Computer or communication networks are so designed that they do not easily get disrupted under external attack and, moreover, these are easily reconstructible if they do get disrupted. These desirable properties of networks can be measured…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-23 T. C. E. Cheng , Yinkui Li , Chuandong Xu , Shenggui Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are gaining popularity across various domains due to their effectiveness in learning graph-structured data. Nevertheless, they have been shown to be susceptible to backdoor poisoning attacks, which pose serious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Yuxuan Zhu , Michael Mandulak , Kerui Wu , George Slota , Yuseok Jeon , Ka-Ho Chow , Lei Yu

Deep Neural Network-based systems are now the state-of-the-art in many robotics tasks, but their application in safety-critical domains remains dangerous without formal guarantees on network robustness. Small perturbations to sensor inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Michael Everett , Bjorn Lutjens , Jonathan P. How

With deep neural networks providing state-of-the-art machine learning models for numerous machine learning tasks, quantifying the robustness of these models has become an important area of research. However, most of the research literature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Tsui-Wei Weng , Pin-Yu Chen , Lam M. Nguyen , Mark S. Squillante , Ivan Oseledets , Luca Daniel

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a cornerstone in graph-based data analysis, with applications in diverse domains such as bioinformatics, social networks, and recommendation systems. However, the interplay between model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Kirill Lukyanov , Georgii Sazonov , Serafim Boyarsky , Ilya Makarov

Randomized smoothing is one of the most promising frameworks for certifying the adversarial robustness of machine learning models, including Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Yet, existing randomized smoothing certificates for GNNs are overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yan Scholten , Jan Schuchardt , Simon Geisler , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Graph convolutional neural networks (GCNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing graph-structured data, achieving remarkable success across diverse applications. However, the theoretical understanding of the stability of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Ning Zhang , Henry Kenlay , Li Zhang , Mihai Cucuringu , Xiaowen Dong

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have established themselves as a key component in addressing diverse graph-based tasks. Despite their notable successes, GNNs remain susceptible to input perturbations in the form of adversarial attacks. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Moshe Eliasof , Davide Murari , Ferdia Sherry , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

We bridge two research directions on graph neural networks (GNNs), by formalizing the relation between heterophily of node labels (i.e., connected nodes tend to have dissimilar labels) and the robustness of GNNs to adversarial attacks. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Jiong Zhu , Junchen Jin , Donald Loveland , Michael T. Schaub , Danai Koutra

Deep Graph Learning (DGL) has emerged as a crucial technique across various domains. However, recent studies have exposed vulnerabilities in DGL models, such as susceptibility to evasion and poisoning attacks. While empirical and provable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Yuni Lai , Yulin Zhu , Bailin Pan , Kai Zhou

The robustness of neural networks against input perturbations with bounded magnitude represents a serious concern in the deployment of deep learning models in safety-critical systems. Recently, the scientific community has focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Bernd Prach , Fabio Brau , Giorgio Buttazzo , Christoph H. Lampert

In reliable decision-making systems based on machine learning, models have to be robust to distributional shifts or provide the uncertainty of their predictions. In node-level problems of graph learning, distributional shifts can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Gleb Bazhenov , Denis Kuznedelev , Andrey Malinin , Artem Babenko , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Datasets typically contain inaccuracies due to human error and societal biases, and these inaccuracies can affect the outcomes of models trained on such datasets. We present a technique for certifying whether linear regression models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Anna P. Meyer , Aws Albarghouthi , Loris D'Antoni