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Event logs are widely used to record the status of high-tech systems, making log anomaly detection important for monitoring those systems. Most existing log anomaly detection methods take a log event count matrix or log event sequences as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Zhong Li , Jiayang Shi , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Graph anomaly detection in this paper aims to distinguish abnormal nodes that behave differently from the benign ones accounting for the majority of graph-structured instances. Receiving increasing attention from both academia and industry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Fanzhen Liu , Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Amin Beheshti , Chuan Zhou , Hao Peng , Quan Z. Sheng , Charu C. Aggarwal

Given a stream of graph edges from a dynamic graph, how can we assign anomaly scores to edges in an online manner, for the purpose of detecting unusual behavior, using constant time and memory? Existing approaches aim to detect individually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Siddharth Bhatia , Rui Liu , Bryan Hooi , Minji Yoon , Kijung Shin , Christos Faloutsos

$Anomaly$ $detection$ problems (also called $change$-$point$ $detection$ problems) have been studied in data mining, statistics and computer science over the last several decades in applications such as medical condition monitoring and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Bhaskar DasGupta , Mano Vikash Janardhanan , Farzane Yahyanejad

Anomaly detection on dynamic graphs refers to detecting entities whose behaviors obviously deviate from the norms observed within graphs and their temporal information. This field has drawn increasing attention due to its application in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shiqi Lou , Qingyue Zhang , Shujie Yang , Yuyang Tian , Zhaoxuan Tan , Minnan Luo

Network management and security is currently one of the most vibrant research areas, among which, research on detecting and identifying anomalies has attracted a lot of interest. Researchers are still struggling to find an effective and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-09 Huy Nguyen , Tam Van Nguyen , Dong Il Kim , Deokjai Choi

This paper studies the problem of detecting anomalous graphs using a machine learning model trained on only normal graphs, which has many applications in molecule, biology, and social network data analysis. We present a self-discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jinyu Cai , Yunhe Zhang , Jicong Fan

This paper is motivated by the task of detecting anomalies in networks of financial transactions, with accounts as nodes and a directed weighted edge between two nodes denoting a money transfer. The weight of the edge is the transaction…

Applications · Statistics 2019-05-28 Andrew Elliott , Mihai Cucuringu , Milton Martinez Luaces , Paul Reidy , Gesine Reinert

We propose two robust methods for anomaly detection in dynamic networks in which the properties of normal traffic are time-varying. We formulate the robust anomaly detection problem as a binary composite hypothesis testing problem and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Jing Wang , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes that deviate from the majority within a graph, playing a crucial role in applications such as social networks and e-commerce. Despite the current advancements in deep learning-based GAD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yunfeng Zhao , Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Qingfeng Chen , Yu Zheng , Shirui Pan

A multitude of toxic online behaviors, ranging from network attacks to anonymous traffic and spam, have severely disrupted the smooth operation of networks. Due to the inherent sender-receiver nature of network behaviors, graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ziqi Yuan , Haoyi Zhou , Tianyu Chen , Jianxin Li

Anomaly detection is a crucial task in complex distributed systems. A thorough understanding of the requirements and challenges of anomaly detection is pivotal to the security of such systems, especially for real-world deployment. While…

Anomaly detection is widely used to distinguish system anomalies by analyzing the temporal and spatial features of wireless sensor network (WSN) data streams; it is one of critical technique that ensures the reliability of WSNs. Currently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qinghao Zhang , Miao Ye , Hongbing Qiu , Yong Wang , Xiaofang Deng

Graph representations offer powerful and intuitive ways to describe data in a multitude of application domains. Here, we consider stochastic processes generating graphs and propose a methodology for detecting changes in stationarity of such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Daniele Zambon , Cesare Alippi , Lorenzo Livi

Many social and economic systems can be represented as attributed networks encoding the relations between entities who are themselves described by different node attributes. Finding anomalies in these systems is crucial for detecting abuses…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Leonardo Gutiérrez-Gómez , Alexandre Bovet , Jean-Charles Delvenne

In the past decade, network structures have penetrated nearly every aspect of our lives. The detection of anomalous vertices in these networks has become increasingly important, such as in exposing computer network intruders or identifying…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Dima Kagan , Yuval Elovici , Michael Fire

Detecting anomalies is important for identifying inefficiencies, errors, or fraud in business processes. Traditional process mining approaches focus on analyzing 'flattened', sequential, event logs based on a single case notion. However,…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-03-05 Alessandro Niro , Michael Werner

Detecting anomalous edges and nodes in dynamic networks is critical in various areas, such as social media, computer networks, and so on. Recent approaches leverage network embedding technique to learn how to generate node representations…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chenming Yang , Liang Zhou , Hui Wen , Zhiheng Zhou , Yue Wu

Many real-world scenarios involving streaming information can be represented as temporal graphs, where data flows through dynamic changes in edges over time. Anomaly detection in this context has the objective of identifying unusual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Simone Mungari , Albert Bifet , Giuseppe Manco , Bernhard Pfahringer

Different from the current node-level anomaly detection task, the goal of graph-level anomaly detection is to find abnormal graphs that significantly differ from others in a graph set. Due to the scarcity of research on the work of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Fu Lin , Xuexiong Luo , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Zitong Wang , Haonan Gong