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End-to-end training with global optimization have popularized graph neural networks (GNNs) for node classification, yet inadvertently introduced vulnerabilities to adversarial edge-perturbing attacks. Adversaries can exploit the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ao Liu , Wenshan Li , Tao Li , Beibei Li , Guangquan Xu , Pan Zhou , Wengang Ma , Hanyuan Huang

Recent research has revealed that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are susceptible to adversarial attacks targeting the graph structure. A malicious attacker can manipulate a limited number of edges, given the training labels, to impair the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Zihan Liu , Ge Wang , Yun Luo , Stan Z. Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a notorious alternative to address learning problems dealing with non-Euclidean datasets. However, although most works assume that the graph is perfectly known, the observed topology is prone to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Victor M. Tenorio , Samuel Rey , Antonio G. Marques

As powerful tools for representation learning on graphs, graph neural networks (GNNs) have played an important role in applications including social networks, recommendation systems, and online web services. However, GNNs have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Haoran Liu , Bokun Wang , Jianling Wang , Xiangjue Dong , Tianbao Yang , James Caverlee

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have exhibited superior performance in various classification tasks on graph-structured data. However, they encounter the potential vulnerability from the link stealing attacks, which can infer the presence of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Jiadong Lou , Xu Yuan , Rui Zhang , Xingliang Yuan , Neil Gong , Nian-Feng Tzeng

Recent years have witnessed the deployment of adversarial attacks to evaluate the robustness of Neural Networks. Past work in this field has relied on traditional optimization algorithms that ignore the inherent structure of the problem and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Florian Jaeckle , M. Pawan Kumar

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used in many applications. However, their robustness against adversarial attacks is criticized. Prior studies show that using unnoticeable modifications on graph topology or nodal features can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Xianfeng Tang , Yandong Li , Yiwei Sun , Huaxiu Yao , Prasenjit Mitra , Suhang Wang

Adversarial learning and the robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are topics of widespread interest in the machine learning community, as documented by the number of adversarial attacks and defenses designed for these purposes. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tran Gia Bao Ngo , Zulfikar Alom , Federico Errica , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt Gurcan Akcora

This paper studies the vulnerability of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to adversarial attacks on node features and graph structure. Various methods have implemented adversarial training to augment graph data, aiming to bolster the robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jinluan Yang , Ruihao Zhang , Zhengyu Chen , Fei Wu , Kun Kuang

Graph neural network (GNN) models play a pivotal role in numerous tasks involving graph-related data analysis. Despite their efficacy, similar to other deep learning models, GNNs are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Even minor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Duanyu Li , Huijun Wu , Min Xie , Xugang Wu , Zhenwei Wu , Wenzhe Zhang

Benefiting from the message passing mechanism, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful on flourish tasks over graph data. However, recent studies have shown that attackers can catastrophically degrade the performance of GNNs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Kuan Li , Yang Liu , Xiang Ao , Jianfeng Chi , Jinghua Feng , Hao Yang , Qing He

Although powerful graph neural networks (GNNs) have boosted numerous real-world applications, the potential privacy risk is still underexplored. To close this gap, we perform the first comprehensive study of graph reconstruction attack that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhanke Zhou , Chenyu Zhou , Xuan Li , Jiangchao Yao , Quanming Yao , Bo Han

The growing need for Trusted AI (TAI) highlights the importance of interpretability and robustness in machine learning models. However, many existing tools overlook graph data and rarely combine these two aspects into a single solution.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Kirill Lukyanov , Mikhail Drobyshevskiy , Georgii Sazonov , Mikhail Soloviov , Ilya Makarov

Unsupervised graph anomaly detection aims at identifying rare patterns that deviate from the majority in a graph without the aid of labels, which is important for a variety of real-world applications. Recent advances have utilized Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yuanchen Bei , Sheng Zhou , Jinke Shi , Yao Ma , Haishuai Wang , Jiajun Bu

Graph unlearning methods aim to efficiently remove the impact of sensitive data from trained GNNs without full retraining, assuming that deleted information cannot be recovered. In this work, we challenge this assumption by introducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Xiaorui Liu , Suhang Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in many real applications, and recent studies have revealed their vulnerabilities against topology attacks. To address this issue, existing efforts have mainly been dedicated to improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Senrong Xu , Yuan Yao , Liangyue Li , Wei Yang , Feng Xu , Hanghang Tong

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

Although Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have exhibited the powerful ability to gather graph-structured information from neighborhood nodes via various message-passing mechanisms, the performance of GNNs is limited by poor generalization and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Zhaoliang Chen , Zhihao Wu , Ylli Sadikaj , Claudia Plant , Hong-Ning Dai , Shiping Wang , Yiu-Ming Cheung , Wenzhong Guo

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated significant application potential in various fields. However, GNNs are still vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Numerous adversarial defense methods on GNNs are proposed to address the problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Tao Wu , Xinwen Cao , Chao Wang , Shaojie Qiao , Xingping Xian , Lin Yuan , Canyixing Cui , Yanbing Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as potent models for graph learning. Distributing the training process across multiple computing nodes is the most promising solution to address the challenges of ever-growing real-world graphs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yuxiang Zhang , Xin Liu , Meng Wu , Wei Yan , Mingyu Yan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan