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Unsupervised/self-supervised graph neural networks (GNN) are vulnerable to inherent randomness in the input graph data which greatly affects the performance of the model in downstream tasks. In this paper, we alleviate the interference of…

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Adversarial attacks on Graph Neural Networks aim to perturb the performance of the learner by carefully modifying the graph topology and node attributes. Existing methods achieve attack stealthiness by constraining the modification budget…

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Recent studies show that graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks. Existing backdoor attacks against GNNs use fixed-pattern triggers and lack reasonable trigger constraints, overlooking individual graph…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in modeling data with graph structures, yet recent research reveals their susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Traditional attack methodologies, which rely on…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been demonstrated to be powerful in modeling graph-structured data. However, training GNNs usually requires abundant task-specific labeled data, which is often arduously expensive to obtain. One effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Ziniu Hu , Yuxiao Dong , Kuansan Wang , Kai-Wei Chang , Yizhou Sun

Machine learning has been successfully applied to complex network analysis in various areas, and graph neural networks (GNNs) based methods outperform others. Recently, adversarial attack on networks has attracted special attention since…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-15 Jinyin Chen , Yangyang Wu , Xiang Lin , Qi Xuan

Deep neural networks, while generalize well, are known to be sensitive to small adversarial perturbations. This phenomenon poses severe security threat and calls for in-depth investigation of the robustness of deep learning models. With the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Xiao Zang , Yi Xie , Jie Chen , Bo Yuan

With the success of the graph embedding model in both academic and industry areas, the robustness of graph embedding against adversarial attack inevitably becomes a crucial problem in graph learning. Existing works usually perform the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Heng Chang , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang , Honglei Zhang , Peng Cui , Xin Wang , Wenwu Zhu , Junzhou Huang

Graph-based classification methods are widely used for security and privacy analytics. Roughly speaking, graph-based classification methods include collective classification and graph neural network. Evading a graph-based classification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Binghui Wang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Deep learning models for graphs, especially Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), have achieved remarkable performance in the task of semi-supervised node classification. However, recent studies show that GCNs suffer from adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Haoxi Zhan , Xiaobing Pei

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have led to state-of-the-art performance on a variety of machine learning tasks such as recommendation, node classification and link prediction. Graph neural network models generate node embeddings by merging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Yunpeng Weng , Xu Chen , Liang Chen , Wei Liu

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been shown powerful capacity at modeling structural data. However, when adapted to downstream tasks, it usually requires abundant task-specific labeled data, which can be extremely scarce in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Yupeng Hou , Binbin Hu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Ji-Rong Wen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently gained much attention for node and graph classification tasks on graph-structured data. However, multiple recent works showed that an attacker can easily make GNNs predict incorrectly via…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become indispensable tools for learning from graph structured data, catering to various applications such as social network analysis and fraud detection for financial services. At the heart of these…

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This paper introduces adversarial attacks targeting a Graph Neural Network (GNN) based radio resource management system in point to point (P2P) communications. Our focus lies on perturbing the trained GNN model during the test phase,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Ahmad Ghasemi , Ehsan Zeraatkar , Majid Moradikia , Seyed , Zekavat

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown satisfying performance in various graph analytical problems. Hence, they have become the \emph{de facto} solution in a variety of decision-making scenarios. However, GNNs could yield biased results…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Yushun Dong , Song Wang , Yu Wang , Tyler Derr , Jundong Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have drawn significant attentions over the years and been broadly applied to essential applications requiring solid robustness or vigorous security standards, such as product recommendation and user behavior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mingxuan Ju , Yujie Fan , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve remarkable performance for tasks on graph data. However, recent works show they are extremely vulnerable to adversarial structural perturbations, making their outcomes unreliable. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Ao Zhang , Jinwen Ma

Graph neural network (GNN) is a deep model for graph representation learning. One advantage of graph neural network is its ability to incorporate node features into the learning process. However, this prevents graph neural network from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Chi Thang Duong , Thanh Dat Hoang , Ha The Hien Dang , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Karl Aberer

With the great popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), their robustness to adversarial topology attacks has received significant attention. Although many attack methods have been proposed, they mainly focus on fixed-budget attacks,…

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