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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in relational learning. However, their vulnerability to graph backdoor attacks (GBAs) poses a significant barrier to broader adoption in high-stakes applications. Despite recent…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in many graph mining tasks benefitting from the message passing strategy that fuses the local structure and node features for better graph representation learning. Despite the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Shuiqiao Yang , Bao Gia Doan , Paul Montague , Olivier De Vel , Tamas Abraham , Seyit Camtepe , Damith C. Ranasinghe , Salil S. Kanhere

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained significant attention owing to their ability to handle graph-structured data and the improvement in practical applications. However, many of these models prioritize high utility performance, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yi Zhang , Yuying Zhao , Zhaoqing Li , Xueqi Cheng , Yu Wang , Olivera Kotevska , Philip S. Yu , Tyler Derr

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various graph structure related tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Existing works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Jiaming Mu , Binghui Wang , Qi Li , Kun Sun , Mingwei Xu , Zhuotao Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable results in various tasks. Recent studies reveal that graph backdoor attacks can poison the GNN model to predict test nodes with triggers attached as the target class. However, apart from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yuxiang Zhang , Bin Ma , Enyan Dai

Recent studies show that graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor attacks against GNNs use fixed-pattern triggers and lack reasonable trigger constraints, overlooking individual graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xuewen Dong , Jiachen Li , Shujun Li , Zhichao You , Qiang Qu , Yaroslav Kholodov , Yulong Shen

Graph condensation has recently emerged as a prevalent technique to improve the training efficiency for graph neural networks (GNNs). It condenses a large graph into a small one such that a GNN trained on this small synthetic graph can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jiahao Wu , Ning Lu , Zeiyu Dai , Kun Wang , Wenqi Fan , Shengcai Liu , Qing Li , Ke Tang

\textbf{G}raph \textbf{N}eural \textbf{N}etworks~(GNNs) have achieved significant success in various real-world applications, including social networks, finance systems, and traffic management. Recent researches highlight their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jiangtong Li , Dungy Liu , Dawei Cheng , Changchun Jiang

Recent studies have revealed that GNNs are highly susceptible to multiple adversarial attacks. Among these, graph backdoor attacks pose one of the most prominent threats, where attackers cause models to misclassify by learning the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Hao Sui , Bing Chen , Jiale Zhang , Chengcheng Zhu , Di Wu , Qinghua Lu , Guodong Long

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been very effective in addressing the issue of various graph-structured related tasks. However, recent research has shown that GCNs are vulnerable to a new type of threat called a backdoor attack,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiazhu Dai , Zhipeng Xiong

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown excellent performance in dealing with various graph structures such as node classification, graph classification and other tasks. However,recent studies have shown that GCNs are vulnerable to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Jiazhu Dai , Haoyu Sun

Graph is an important data representation ubiquitously existing in the real world. However, analyzing the graph data is computationally difficult due to its non-Euclidean nature. Graph embedding is a powerful tool to solve the graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Zhikun Zhang , Min Chen , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to the \emph{backdoor attack}, which intends to embed hidden backdoors in DNNs by poisoning training data. The attacked model behaves normally on benign samples, whereas its prediction will be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Yiming Li , Yanjie Li , Yalei Lv , Yong Jiang , Shu-Tao Xia

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been widely adopted in multiple domains. Yet, they are notably vulnerable to adversarial and backdoor attacks. In particular, backdoor attacks based on subgraph insertion have been shown to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Dingqiang Yuan , Xiaohua Xu , Lei Yu , Tongchang Han , Rongchang Li , Meng Han

Federated Graph Neural Network (FedGNN) integrate federated learning (FL) with graph neural networks (GNNs) to enable privacy-preserving training on distributed graph data. Vertical Federated Graph Neural Network (VFGNN), a key branch of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Jirui Yang , Peng Chen , Zhihui Lu , Ruijun Deng , Qiang Duan , Jianping Zeng

Many real-world data comes in the form of graphs, such as social networks and protein structure. To fully utilize the information contained in graph data, a new family of machine learning (ML) models, namely graph neural networks (GNNs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Xinlei He , Rui Wen , Yixin Wu , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

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

Graph neural network (GNN), the mainstream method to learn on graph data, is vulnerable to graph evasion attacks, where an attacker slightly perturbing the graph structure can fool trained GNN models. Existing work has at least one of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Binghui Wang , Tianxiang Zhou , Minhua Lin , Pan Zhou , Ang Li , Meng Pang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Deep learning methods for graphs achieve remarkable performance across a variety of domains. However, recent findings indicate that small, unnoticeable perturbations of graph structure can catastrophically reduce performance of even the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Xiang Zhang , Marinka Zitnik

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which generalize traditional deep neural networks on graph data, have achieved state-of-the-art performance on several graph analytical tasks. We focus on how trained GNN models could leak information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Wolfgang Nejdl , Megha Khosla