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Network controllability robustness reflects how well a networked dynamical system can maintain its controllability against destructive attacks. This paper investigates the network controllability robustness from the perspective of a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-03-09 Yang Lou , Lin Wang , Guanrong Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have established themselves as a key component in addressing diverse graph-based tasks. Despite their notable successes, GNNs remain susceptible to input perturbations in the form of adversarial attacks. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Moshe Eliasof , Davide Murari , Ferdia Sherry , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The function or performance of a network is strongly dependent on its robustness, quantifying the ability of the network to continue functioning under perturbations. While a wide variety of robustness metrics have been proposed, they have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Liwang Zhu , Qi Bao , Zhongzhi Zhang

Critical infrastructures form a technological skeleton of our world by providing us with water, food, electricity, gas, transportation, communication, banking, and finance. Moreover, as urban population increases, the role of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-04 Konstantin Zuev , Michael Beer

The rampant occurrence of cybersecurity breaches imposes substantial limitations on the progress of network infrastructures, leading to compromised data, financial losses, potential harm to individuals, and disruptions in essential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Xin Jin , Charalampos Katsis , Fan Sang , Jiahao Sun , Elisa Bertino , Ramana Rao Kompella , Ashish Kundu

Modeling how networks change under structural perturbations can yield foundational insights into network robustness, which is critical in many real-world applications. The largest connected component is a popular measure of network…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-09-30 Jessica Jiang , Allison C. Zhuang , Petter Holme , Peter J. Mucha , Alice C. Schwarze

The behavior of complex networks under failure or attack depends strongly on the specific scenario. Of special interest are scale-free networks, which are usually seen as robust under random failure but appear to be especially vulnerable to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-07-06 B. Berche , C. von Ferber , T. Holovatch , Yu. Holovatch

Graph theoretical approach has proved an effective tool to understand, characterize and quantify the complex brain network. However, much less attention has been paid to methods that quantitatively compare two graphs, a crucial issue in the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-08-29 Ahmad Mheich , Fabrice Wendling , Mahmoud Hassan

Link prediction in complex networks has attracted considerable attention from interdisciplinary research communities, due to its ubiquitous applications in biological networks, social networks, transportation networks, telecommunication…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Ece C. Mutlu , Toktam A. Oghaz , Amirarsalan Rajabi , Ivan Garibay

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which becomes one of the most important research problems in the development of deep learning. While a lot of efforts have been made in recent years, it is of great significance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Yinpeng Dong , Qi-An Fu , Xiao Yang , Tianyu Pang , Hang Su , Zihao Xiao , Jun Zhu

With the phenomenal growth in the Internet, network security has become an integral part of computer and information security. In order to come up with measures that make networks more secure, it is important to learn about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-19 Natarajan Meghanathan

Graphs and networks provide a canonical representation of relational data, with massive network data sets becoming increasingly prevalent across a variety of scientific fields. Although tools from mathematics and computer science have been…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-08-11 Benjamin P. Olding , Patrick J. Wolfe

Different network structures are compiared with respect to degree of robustnes of identification statistical procedures. It is shown that threshold (market) graph, cliques and independent sets in the threshold (market) graphs are preferable…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-01-31 L. P. Semenov , V. A. Kalyagin , P. A. Koldanov , M. V. Batsyn , S. V. Golovanova , M. A. Voronina

Many works show that node-level predictions of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are unrobust to small, often termed adversarial, changes to the graph structure. However, because manual inspection of a graph is difficult, it is unclear if the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Lukas Gosch , Daniel Sturm , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann

Graph neural networks are becoming increasingly popular in the field of machine learning due to their unique ability to process data structured in graphs. They have also been applied in safety-critical environments where perturbations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Tobias Ladner , Michael Eichelbeck , Matthias Althoff

Robustness of network of networks (NON) has been studied only for dependency coupling (J.X. Gao et. al., Nature Physics, 2012) and only for connectivity coupling (E.A. Leicht and R.M. D Souza, arxiv:0907.0894). The case of network of n…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-10-22 Gaogao Dong , Lixin Tian , Ruijin Du , H. Eugene Stanley

Inspired by socio-political scenarios, like dictatorships, in which a minority of people exercise control over a majority of weakly interconnected individuals, we propose vulnerability and power measures defined on groups of actors of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-12-22 Enrico Bozzo , Massimo Franceschet , Franca Rinaldi

Anomaly detection is a critical task in cybersecurity, where identifying insider threats, access violations, and coordinated attacks is essential for ensuring system resilience. Graph-based approaches have become increasingly important for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Jiang , Reza Ryan , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

We consider the problem of robustness in large consensus networks that occur in many areas such as distributed optimization. Robustness, in this context, is the scaling of performance measures, e.g. H2-norm, as a function of network…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Tuhin Sarkar , Mardavij Roozbehani , Munther A. Dahleh

In real networks complex topological features are often associated with a diversity of interactions as measured by the weights of the links. Moreover, spatial constraints may as well play an important role, resulting in a complex interplay…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-11-18 Luca Dall'Asta , Alain Barrat , Marc Barthelemy , Alessandro Vespignani