English
Related papers

Related papers: Graph Backdoor

200 papers

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted considerable attention due to their diverse applications. However, the scarcity and quality limitations of graph data present challenges to their training process in practical settings. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hanyang Yuan , Jiarong Xu , Renhong Huang , Mingli Song , Chunping Wang , Yang Yang

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have recently drawn increasing attention for modeling complex multi-relational data in domains such as recommendation, finance, and social networks. While existing research has been largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Honglin Gao , Xiang Li , Lan Zhao , Gaoxi Xiao

Existing studies have shown that Message-Passing Graph Neural Networks (MPNNs) are highly susceptible to adversarial attacks. In contrast, despite the increasing importance of Graph Transformers (GTs), their robustness properties are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Philipp Foth , Lukas Gosch , Simon Geisler , Leo Schwinn , Stephan Günnemann

Graph deep learning models, such as graph convolutional networks (GCN) achieve remarkable performance for tasks on graph data. Similar to other types of deep models, graph deep learning models often suffer from adversarial attacks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Huijun Wu , Chen Wang , Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Andrew Docherty , Kai Lu , Liming Zhu

Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant challenges to their deployment in safety-critical scenarios. This vulnerability has spurred a growing focus on designing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tao Wu , Canyixing Cui , Xingping Xian , Shaojie Qiao , Chao Wang , Lin Yuan , Shui Yu

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

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

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have found extensive applications in safety-critical artificial intelligence systems, such as autonomous driving and facial recognition systems. However, recent research has revealed their susceptibility to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Lingxin Jin , Xianyu Wen , Wei Jiang , Jinyu Zhan

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attack, which does not affect the network's performance on clean data but would manipulate the network behavior once a trigger pattern is added. Existing defense methods have greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Min Liu , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , Xiangyu Yue

Deep neural networks (DNN) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Numerous efforts either try to patch weaknesses in trained models, or try to make it difficult or costly to compute adversarial examples that exploit them. In our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Shawn Shan , Emily Wenger , Bolun Wang , Bo Li , Haitao Zheng , Ben Y. Zhao

A graph neural network (GNN) is a type of neural network that is specifically designed to process graph-structured data. Typically, GNNs can be implemented in two settings, including the transductive setting and the inductive setting. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Yixin Wu , Xinlei He , Pascal Berrang , Mathias Humbert , Michael Backes , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yang Zhang

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

Backdoor attack intends to embed hidden backdoor into deep neural networks (DNNs), so that the attacked models perform well on benign samples, whereas their predictions will be maliciously changed if the hidden backdoor is activated by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yiming Li , Yong Jiang , Zhifeng Li , Shu-Tao Xia

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 Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown excellent performance in graph-structured tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, recent research has shown that GCNs are vulnerable to a new type of threat called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Jiazhu Dai , Haoyu Sun

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

Backdoor attacks have been demonstrated as a security threat for machine learning models. Traditional backdoor attacks intend to inject backdoor functionality into the model such that the backdoored model will perform abnormally on inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jing Xu , Gorka Abad , Stjepan Picek

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have boosted the performance for many graph-related tasks. Despite the great success, recent studies have shown that GNNs are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where adversaries can mislead the GNNs'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Wenqi Fan , Wei Jin , Xiaorui Liu , Han Xu , Xianfeng Tang , Suhang Wang , Qing Li , Jiliang Tang , Jianping Wang , Charu Aggarwal

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 remarkable performance on tasks involving relational data. However, small perturbations to the graph structure can significantly alter GNN outputs, raising concerns about their robustness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Bhavya Kohli , Biplab Sikdar