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Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a powerful architecture for representation learning on documents that naturally occur as graphs, e.g., citation or social networks. However, sensitive personal information, such as documents with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Timour Igamberdiev , Ivan Habernal

We investigate how generative adversarial nets (GANs) can help semi-supervised learning on graphs. We first provide insights on working principles of adversarial learning over graphs and then present GraphSGAN, a novel approach to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Ming Ding , Jie Tang , Jie Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) rely on graph convolutions to learn features from network data. GNNs are stable to different types of perturbations of the underlying graph, a property that they inherit from graph filters. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Juan Cervino , Luana Ruiz , Alejandro Ribeiro

Learning graph convolutional networks (GCNs) is an emerging field which aims at generalizing convolutional operations to arbitrary non-regular domains. In particular, GCNs operating on spatial domains show superior performances compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Hichem Sahbi

Generalizable, transferrable, and robust representation learning on graph-structured data remains a challenge for current graph neural networks (GNNs). Unlike what has been developed for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yuning You , Tianlong Chen , Yongduo Sui , Ting Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Yang Shen

While deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks, they often fail to generalize to new domains and subtle variations of input images. Several defenses have been proposed to improve the robustness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Omid Poursaeed , Tianxing Jiang , Harry Yang , Serge Belongie , SerNam Lim

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have received increasing attention in the machine learning community for effectively leveraging both the content features of nodes and the linkage patterns across graphs in various applications. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Donghan Yu , Ruohong Zhang , Zhengbao Jiang , Yuexin Wu , Yiming Yang

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

Despite the exploding interest in graph neural networks there has been little effort to verify and improve their robustness. This is even more alarming given recent findings showing that they are extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

Neural networks are prone to misclassify slightly modified input images. Recently, many defences have been proposed, but none have improved the robustness of neural networks consistently. Here, we propose to use adversarial attacks as a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Recent advances in protecting node privacy on graph data and attacking graph neural networks (GNNs) gain much attention. The eye does not bring these two essential tasks together yet. Imagine an adversary can utilize the powerful GNNs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 I-Chung Hsieh , Cheng-Te Li

Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs) are becoming more and more popular for learning node representations on graphs. Though there exist various developments on sampling and aggregation to accelerate the training process and improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Xu Zou , Qiuye Jia , Jianwei Zhang , Chang Zhou , Hongxia Yang , Jie Tang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a spectrum of graph-related tasks, however concerns persist regarding their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations. While prevailing defense strategies focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sofiane Ennadir , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis , El Houcine Bergou

Graph classification has practical applications in diverse fields. Recent studies show that graph-based machine learning models are especially vulnerable to adversarial perturbations due to the non i.i.d nature of graph data. By adding or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Zhidong Gao , Rui Hu , Yanmin Gong

The network embedding problem that maps nodes in a graph to vectors in Euclidean space can be very useful for addressing several important tasks on a graph. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed for solving such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ping-En Lu , Cheng-Shang Chang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved notable success in tasks such as social and transportation networks. However, recent studies have highlighted the vulnerability of GNNs to backdoor attacks, raising significant concerns about their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chang Liu , Hai Huang , Yujie Xing , Xingquan Zuo

Perturbations targeting the graph structure have proven to be extremely effective in reducing the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and traditional defenses such as adversarial training do not seem to be able to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Simon Geisler , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann

Recent studies demonstrate that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to slight but adversarially designed perturbations, known as adversarial examples. To address this issue, robust training methods against adversarial examples have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jintang Li , Jiaying Peng , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng , Tingting Liang , Qing Ling

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of effective deep learning models for node classification tasks; yet their predictive capability may be severely compromised under adversarially designed unnoticeable perturbations to the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Xiao Zang , Jie Chen , Bo Yuan

Despite the tremendous success of graph-based learning systems in handling structural data, it has been widely investigated that they are fragile to adversarial attacks on homophilic graph data, where adversaries maliciously modify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yulin Zhu , Yuni Lai , Xing Ai , Wai Lun LO , Gaolei Li , Jianhua Li , Di Tang , Xingxing Zhang , Mengpei Yang , Kai Zhou