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This paper investigates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) application for self-supervised network intrusion and anomaly detection. GNNs are a deep learning approach for graph-based data that incorporate graph structures into learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Evan Caville , Wai Weng Lo , Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann

The rapid progress of graph generation has raised new security concerns, particularly regarding backdoor vulnerabilities. Though prior work has explored backdoor attacks against diffusion models for image or unconditional graph generation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Liang Ye , Shengqin Chen , Jiazhu Dai

Graph modeling allows numerous security problems to be tackled in a general way, however, little work has been done to understand their ability to withstand adversarial attacks. We design and evaluate two novel graph attacks against a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Yizheng Chen , Yacin Nadji , Athanasios Kountouras , Fabian Monrose , Roberto Perdisci , Manos Antonakakis , Nikolaos Vasiloglou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently emerged as a robust framework for graph-structured data. They have been applied to many problems such as knowledge graph analysis, social networks recommendation, and even Covid19 detection and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Thanh-Dat Nguyen , Thanh Le-Cong , ThanhVu H. Nguyen , Xuan-Bach D. Le , Quyet-Thang Huynh

Managing the threat posed by malware requires accurate detection and classification techniques. Traditional detection strategies, such as signature scanning, rely on manual analysis of malware to extract relevant features, which is labor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Vrinda Malhotra , Katerina Potika , Mark Stamp

Backdoor attack intends to embed hidden backdoor into deep neural networks (DNNs), such that the attacked model performs well on benign samples, whereas its prediction will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Shaik Mohammed Maqsood , Viveros Manuela Ceron , Addluri GowthamKrishna

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely adopted to analyse non-Euclidean data, such as chemical networks, brain networks, and social networks, modelling complex relationships and interdependency between objects. Recently, Membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Bang Wu , Xiangwen Yang , Shirui Pan , Xingliang Yuan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are becoming the de facto method to learn on the graph data and have achieved the state-of-the-art on node and graph classification tasks. However, recent works show GNNs are vulnerable to training-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiate Li , Meng Pang , Yun Dong , Binghui Wang

Dynamic link prediction (DLP) makes graph prediction based on historical information. Since most DLP methods are highly dependent on the training data to achieve satisfying prediction performance, the quality of the training data is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Jinyin Chen , Haiyang Xiong , Haibin Zheng , Jian Zhang , Guodong Jiang , Yi Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a powerful representational tool for solving problems on graph-structured inputs. In almost all cases so far, however, they have been applied to directly recovering a final solution from raw inputs, without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-16 Petar Veličković , Rex Ying , Matilde Padovano , Raia Hadsell , Charles Blundell

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a prominent graph learning model in various graph-based tasks over the years. Nevertheless, due to the vulnerabilities of GNNs, it has been empirically shown that malicious attackers could easily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Yushun Dong , Binchi Zhang , Hanghang Tong , Jundong Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising performance in various real-world applications. However, recent studies have shown that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we study a recently-introduced realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Xu Zou , Qinkai Zheng , Yuxiao Dong , Xinyu Guan , Evgeny Kharlamov , Jialiang Lu , Jie Tang

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

Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable against perturbations due to lack of robustness and can therefore be easily fooled. Currently, most works on attacking GNNs are mainly using gradient information to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Jintang Li , Tao Xie , Liang Chen , Fenfang Xie , Xiangnan He , Zibin Zheng

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, such as backdoor attacks in which a malicious adversary compromises a model during training such that specific behaviour can be triggered at test time by attaching a specific word…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 You Guo , Jun Wang , Trevor Cohn

While many existing graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proven to perform $\ell_2$-based graph smoothing that enforces smoothness globally, in this work we aim to further enhance the local smoothness adaptivity of GNNs via $\ell_1$-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Xiaorui Liu , Wei Jin , Yao Ma , Yaxin Li , Hua Liu , Yiqi Wang , Ming Yan , Jiliang Tang

Deep learning models for graphs have achieved strong performance for the task of node classification. Despite their proliferation, currently there is no study of their robustness to adversarial attacks. Yet, in domains where they are likely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-10 Daniel Zügner , Amir Akbarnejad , Stephan Günnemann

In this paper, we study the robustness of graph convolutional networks (GCNs). Despite the good performance of GCNs on graph semi-supervised learning tasks, previous works have shown that the original GCNs are very unstable to adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Xiaoyun Wang , Xuanqing Liu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Backdoor attacks on deep neural networks have emerged as significant security threats, especially as DNNs are increasingly deployed in security-critical applications. However, most existing works assume that the attacker has access to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Jiahao Wang , Xianglong Zhang , Xiuzhen Cheng , Pengfei Hu , Guoming Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in graph representation learning and have been applied to various domains. However, many real-world graphs contain sensitive personal information, such as user profiles in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Longzhu He , Chaozhuo Li , Peng Tang , Li Sun , Sen Su , Philip S. Yu