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Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Anomaly detection is a ubiquitous and challenging task relevant across many disciplines. With the vital role communication networks play in our daily lives, the security of these networks is imperative for smooth functioning of society. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Gopikrishna Rathinavel , Nikhil Muralidhar , Timothy O'Shea , Naren Ramakrishnan

Distance-based anomaly detection methods rely on compact in-distribution (ID) embeddings that are well separated from anomalies. However, conventional contrastive learning strategies often struggle to achieve this balance, either promoting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Willian T. Lunardi , Abdulrahman Banabila , Dania Herzalla , Martin Andreoni

Deep anomaly detection methods have become increasingly popular in recent years, with methods like Stacked Autoencoders, Variational Autoencoders, and Generative Adversarial Networks greatly improving the state-of-the-art. Other methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Andrei Manolache

Given high-dimensional time series data (e.g., sensor data), how can we detect anomalous events, such as system faults and attacks? More challengingly, how can we do this in a way that captures complex inter-sensor relationships, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ailin Deng , Bryan Hooi

Weakly supervised graph anomaly detection aims to unveil unusual graph instances, e.g., nodes, whose behaviors significantly differ from normal ones, given only a limited number of annotated anomalies and abundant unlabeled samples. A major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yingjie Zhou , Yuqin Xie , Fanxing Liu , Dongjin Song , Ce Zhu , Lingqiao Liu

Contrastive learning methods have attracted considerable attention due to their remarkable success in analyzing graph-structured data. Inspired by the success of contrastive learning, we propose a novel framework for contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Xiaojuan Zhang , Jun Fu , Shuang Li

Self-supervised learning of graph neural networks (GNNs) aims to learn an accurate representation of the graphs in an unsupervised manner, to obtain transferable representations of them for diverse downstream tasks. Predictive learning and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dongki Kim , Jinheon Baek , Sung Ju Hwang

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal patterns in networks, but faces significant challenges from label scarcity and extreme class imbalance. While graph contrastive learning offers a promising unsupervised solution, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kamal Berahmand , Saman Forouzandeh , Mehrnoush Mohammadi , Parham Moradi , Mahdi Jalili

Neural network-based anomaly detection methods have shown to achieve high performance. However, they require a large amount of training data for each task. We propose a neural network-based meta-learning method for supervised anomaly…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-02 Tomoharu Iwata , Atsutoshi Kumagai

This survey paper presents a comprehensive and conceptual overview of anomaly detection using dynamic graphs. We focus on existing graph-based anomaly detection (AD) techniques and their applications to dynamic networks. The contributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle

Semi-supervised Learning plays a crucial role in network anomaly detection applications, however, learning anomaly patterns with limited labeled samples is not easy. Additionally, the lack of interpretability creates key barriers to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yachao Yuan , Yu Huang , Yingwen Wu , Jin Wang

Network anomaly detection aims to find network elements (e.g., nodes, edges, subgraphs) with significantly different behaviors from the vast majority. It has a profound impact in a variety of applications ranging from finance, healthcare to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Kaize Ding , Qinghai Zhou , Hanghang Tong , Huan Liu

We study self-supervised learning on graphs using contrastive methods. A general scheme of prior methods is to optimize two-view representations of input graphs. In many studies, a single graph-level representation is computed as one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Xinyi Xu , Cheng Deng , Yaochen Xie , Shuiwang Ji

Accurate and efficient prediction of the molecular properties of drugs is one of the fundamental problems in drug research and development. Recent advancements in representation learning have been shown to greatly improve the performance of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-17 Hui Liu , Yibiao Huang , Xuejun Liu , Lei Deng

Anomalies represent rare observations (e.g., data records or events) that deviate significantly from others. Over several decades, research on anomaly mining has received increasing interests due to the implications of these occurrences in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Shan Xue , Jian Yang , Chuan Zhou , Quan Z. Sheng , Hui Xiong , Leman Akoglu

Graphs are used widely to model complex systems, and detecting anomalies in a graph is an important task in the analysis of complex systems. Graph anomalies are patterns in a graph that do not conform to normal patterns expected of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Hwan Kim , Byung Suk Lee , Won-Yong Shin , Sungsu Lim

Unsupervised representation learning has been extensively employed in anomaly detection, achieving impressive performance. Extracting valuable feature vectors that can remarkably improve the performance of anomaly detection are essential in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Muhao Xu , Xueying Zhou , Xizhan Gao , WeiKai He , Sijie Niu

Existing anomaly detection paradigms overwhelmingly focus on training detection models using exclusively normal data or unlabeled data (mostly normal samples). One notorious issue with these approaches is that they are weak in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Guansong Pang , Choubo Ding , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Anomaly detection aims to find instances that are considered unusual and is a fundamental problem of data science. Recently, deep anomaly detection methods were shown to achieve superior results particularly in complex data such as images.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Hongjing Zhang , Ian Davidson