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Anomaly detection is concerned with identifying data patterns that deviate remarkably from the expected behaviour. This is an important research problem, due to its broad set of application domains, from data analysis to e-health,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 L. Erhan , M. Ndubuaku , M. Di Mauro , W. Song , M. Chen , G. Fortino , O. Bagdasar , A. Liotta

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 propose a simple yet effective method for detecting anomalous instances on an attribute graph with label information of a small number of instances. Although with standard anomaly detection methods it is usually assumed that instances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-28 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Graph structure patterns are widely used to model different area data recently. How to detect anomalous graph information on these graph data has become a popular research problem. The objective of this research is centered on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Fu Lin , Haonan Gong , Mingkang Li , Zitong Wang , Yue Zhang , Xuexiong Luo

Anomaly detection is one of the most active research areas in various critical domains, such as healthcare, fintech, and public security. However, little attention has been paid to scholarly data, i.e., anomaly detection in a citation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jiaying Liu , Feng Xia , Xu Feng , Jing Ren , Huan Liu

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

Graph anomaly detection has attracted a lot of interest recently. Despite their successes, existing detectors have at least two of the three weaknesses: (a) high computational cost which limits them to small-scale networks only; (b)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zhong Zhuang , Kai Ming Ting , Guansong Pang , Shuaibin Song

Despite inherent ill-definition, anomaly detection is a research endeavor of great interest within machine learning and visual scene understanding alike. Most commonly, anomaly detection is considered as the detection of outliers within a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Samet Akçay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Detecting anomalies on network traffic is a complex task due to the massive amount of traffic flows in today's networks, as well as the highly-dynamic nature of traffic over time. In this paper, we propose the use of Graph Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Hamid Latif-Martínez , José Suárez-Varela , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Pere Barlet-Ros

Graph anomaly detection is a popular and vital task in various real-world scenarios, which has been studied for several decades. Recently, many studies extending deep learning-based methods have shown preferable performance on graph anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jing Ren , Mingliang Hou , Zhixuan Liu , Xiaomei Bai

Anomaly detection is the process of identifying abnormal instances or events in data sets which deviate from the norm significantly. In this study, we propose a signatures based machine learning algorithm to detect rare or unexpected items…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-02-09 Erdinc Akyildirim , Matteo Gambara , Josef Teichmann , Syang Zhou

In the fields of statistics and unsupervised machine learning a fundamental and well-studied problem is anomaly detection. Anomalies are difficult to define, yet many algorithms have been proposed. Underlying the approaches is the nebulous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Nassir Mohammad

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

Anomaly detection is the process of finding data points that deviate from a baseline. In a real-life setting, anomalies are usually unknown or extremely rare. Moreover, the detection must be accomplished in a timely manner or the risk of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Mariem Ben Fadhel , Kofi Nyarko

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in data mining field with many real-world applications. A vast majority of existing anomaly detection methods predominately focused on data collected from a single source. In real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Yuening Li , Ninghao Liu , Jundong Li , Mengnan Du , Xia Hu

Graph-level anomaly detection (GAD) describes the problem of detecting graphs that are abnormal in their structure and/or the features of their nodes, as compared to other graphs. One of the challenges in GAD is to devise graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Rongrong Ma , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen , Anton van den Hengel

The task of detecting anomalous data patterns is as important in practical applications as challenging. In the context of spatial data, recognition of unexpected trajectories brings additional difficulties, such as high dimensionality and…

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) has recently become a hot research spot due to its practicability and theoretical value. Since GAD emphasizes the application and the rarity of anomalous samples, enriching the varieties of its datasets is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Xuanwen Huang , Yang Yang , Yang Wang , Chunping Wang , Zhisheng Zhang , Jiarong Xu , Lei Chen , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Anomaly detection on attributed networks attracts considerable research interests due to wide applications of attributed networks in modeling a wide range of complex systems. Recently, the deep learning-based anomaly detection methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Yixin Liu , Zhao Li , Shirui Pan , Chen Gong , Chuan Zhou , George Karypis

Why is a given node in a time-evolving graph ($t$-graph) marked as an anomaly by an off-the-shelf detection algorithm? Is it because of the number of its outgoing or incoming edges, or their timings? How can we best convince a human analyst…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Nikhil Gupta , Dhivya Eswaran , Neil Shah , Leman Akoglu , Christos Faloutsos