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Recent studies have revealed that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To defend against such attacks, robust graph structure refinement (GSR) methods aim at minimizing the effect of adversarial edges based on node features, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Kibum Kim , Kijung Shin , Chanyoung Park

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have received increasing attention in the machine learning community for effectively leveraging both the content features of nodes and the linkage patterns across graphs in various applications. As…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Donghan Yu , Ruohong Zhang , Zhengbao Jiang , Yuexin Wu , Yiming Yang

Deep learning on graph structures has shown exciting results in various applications. However, few attentions have been paid to the robustness of such models, in contrast to numerous research work for image or text adversarial attack and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-08 Hanjun Dai , Hui Li , Tian Tian , Xin Huang , Lin Wang , Jun Zhu , Le Song

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are playing an increasingly important role in the efficient operation and security of computing systems, with applications in workload scheduling, anomaly detection, and resource management. However, their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Haci Ismail Aslan , Philipp Wiesner , Ping Xiong , Odej Kao

Graph neural networks exhibit remarkable performance in graph data analysis. However, the robustness of GNN models remains a challenge. As a result, they are not reliable enough to be deployed in critical applications. Recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Xugang Wu , Huijun Wu , Xu Zhou , Kai Lu

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have become increasingly popular for supporting Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Nevertheless, extensive research has shown their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, which involve subtle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Andrea Venturi , Dario Stabili , Mirco Marchetti

Using Fourier analysis, we explore the robustness and vulnerability of graph convolutional neural networks (GCNs) for skeleton-based action recognition. We adopt a joint Fourier transform (JFT), a combination of the graph Fourier transform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Nariki Tanaka , Hiroshi Kera , Kazuhiko Kawamoto

Graph neural networks (GNNs) which apply the deep neural networks to graph data have achieved significant performance for the task of semi-supervised node classification. However, only few work has addressed the adversarial robustness of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Kaidi Xu , Hongge Chen , Sijia Liu , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsui-Wei Weng , Mingyi Hong , Xue Lin

We propose a framework that lifts the capabilities of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) to scenarios where no input graph is given and increases their robustness to adversarial attacks. We formulate a joint probabilistic model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Pantelis Elinas , Edwin V. Bonilla , Louis Tiao

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have shown very powerful for graph data representation and learning tasks. Existing GCNs usually conduct feature aggregation on a fixed neighborhood graph in which each node computes its representation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Bo Jiang , Beibei Wang , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a spectrum of graph-related tasks, however concerns persist regarding their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations. While prevailing defense strategies focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sofiane Ennadir , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis , El Houcine Bergou

Recent years have witnessed the deployment of adversarial attacks to evaluate the robustness of Neural Networks. Past work in this field has relied on traditional optimization algorithms that ignore the inherent structure of the problem and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Florian Jaeckle , M. Pawan Kumar

We analyze the performance of graph neural network (GNN) architectures from the perspective of random graph theory. Our approach promises to complement existing lenses on GNN analysis, such as combinatorial expressive power and worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Drake Brown , Trevor Garrity , Kaden Parker , Jason Oliphant , Stone Carson , Cole Hanson , Zachary Boyd

It has been discovered that Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) encounter a remarkable drop in performance when multiple layers are piled up. The main factor that accounts for why deep GCNs fail lies in over-smoothing, which isolates the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Jiaqi Han , Wenbing Huang , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Fuchun Sun , Junzhou Huang

Humans rely heavily on shape information to recognize objects. Conversely, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are biased more towards texture. This is perhaps the main reason why CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Ali Borji

Link prediction in graph data uses various algorithms and Graph Nerual Network (GNN) models to predict potential relationships between graph nodes. These techniques have found widespread use in numerous real-world applications, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mingchen Li , Di Zhuang , Keyu Chen , Dumindu Samaraweera , Morris Chang

How can we find meaningful clusters in a graph robustly against noise edges? Graph clustering (i.e., dividing nodes into groups of similar ones) is a fundamental problem in graph analysis with applications in various fields. Recent studies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Hyeonsoo Jo , Fanchen Bu , Kijung Shin

Despite the success of graph neural networks (GNNs) in various domains, they exhibit susceptibility to adversarial attacks. Understanding these vulnerabilities is crucial for developing robust and secure applications. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Dibaloke Chanda , Saba Heidari Gheshlaghi , Nasim Yahya Soltani

This study explores the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) for vulnerability detection in software code, utilizing a real-world dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits. The dataset's structure, based on the number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ravil Mussabayev

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have emerged as powerful models for graph learning tasks, exhibiting promising performance in various domains. While their empirical success is evident, there is a growing need to understand their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Guangrui Yang , Ming Li , Han Feng , Xiaosheng Zhuang