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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has attracted increasing attention in recent years for identifying malicious samples in a wide range of graph-based applications, such as social media and e-commerce. However, most GAD methods assume identical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Junjun Pan , Yu Zheng , Yue Tan , Yixin Liu

Graph contrastive learning defines a contrastive task to pull similar instances close and push dissimilar instances away. It learns discriminative node embeddings without supervised labels, which has aroused increasing attention in the past…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Lin Shu , Chuan Chen , Zibin Zheng

Graph anomaly detection on attributed networks has become a prevalent research topic due to its broad applications in many influential domains. In real-world scenarios, nodes and edges in attributed networks usually display distinct…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Shujie Yang , Binchi Zhang , Shangbin Feng , Zhaoxuan Tan , Qinghua Zheng , Jun Zhou , Minnan Luo

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

Anomaly detection is a classical problem in computer vision, namely the determination of the normal from the abnormal when datasets are highly biased towards one class (normal) due to the insufficient sample size of the other class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Samet Akcay , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei , Toby P. Breckon

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has recently emerged as an effective learning paradigm to alleviate the reliance on labelling information for graph representation learning. The core of GCL is to maximise the mutual information between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Yizhen Zheng , Yu Zheng , Xiaofei Zhou , Chen Gong , Vincent CS Lee , Shirui Pan

Graph contrastive learning has achieved great success in pre-training graph neural networks without ground-truth labels. Leading graph contrastive learning follows the classical scheme of contrastive learning, forcing model to identify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Junran Wu , Xueyuan Chen , Shangzhe Li

Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations (e.g., node dropping, edge perturbation, attribute masking)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Shihao Ji , Esra Akbas

This paper addresses the problem of anomaly detection in accounting subject association structures, proposing a structured modeling and unsupervised discriminant framework based on graph neural networks. This framework is used to mine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yuhan Wang , Ruobing Yan , Zhe Su , Hejing Chen , Ningjing Sang , Yunfei Nie

Graph similarity learning refers to calculating the similarity score between two graphs, which is required in many realistic applications, such as visual tracking, graph classification, and collaborative filtering. As most of the existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Di Jin , Luzhi Wang , Yizhen Zheng , Xiang Li , Fei Jiang , Wei Lin , Shirui Pan

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is critical in security-sensitive domains, yet faces reliability challenges: miscalibrated confidence estimation (underconfidence in normal nodes, overconfidence in anomalies), adversarial vulnerability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Songran Bai , Xiaolong Zheng , Daniel Dajun Zeng

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the absence of task-specific labels. However, its scalability on large-scale graphs is hindered by the intensive message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiang Chen , Kun Yue , Wenjie Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Liang Duan

The widespread application of graph data in various high-risk scenarios has increased attention to graph anomaly detection (GAD). Faced with real-world graphs that often carry node descriptions in the form of raw text sequences, termed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yiming Xu , Xu Hua , Zhen Peng , Bin Shi , Jiarun Chen , Xingbo Fu , Song Wang , Bo Dong

Unsupervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) has received increasing attention in recent years, which aims to identify data anomalous patterns utilizing only unlabeled node information from graph-structured data. However, prevailing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jiazhen Chen , Xiuqin Liang , Sichao Fu , Zheng Ma , Weihua Ou

Graph contrastive learning is a general learning paradigm excelling at capturing invariant information from diverse perturbations in graphs. Recent works focus on exploring the structural rationale from graphs, thereby increasing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Qirui Ji , Jiangmeng Li , Jie Hu , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng , Fanjiang Xu

Graph anomaly detection has gained significant attention across various domains, particularly in critical applications like fraud detection in e-commerce platforms and insider threat detection in cybersecurity. Usually, these data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Lecheng Zheng , John R. Birge , Haiyue Wu , Yifang Zhang , Jingrui He

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has emerged as a representative graph self-supervised method, achieving significant success. The currently prevalent optimization objective for GCL is InfoNCE. Typically, it employs augmentation techniques…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yulan Hu , Sheng Ouyang , Jingyu Liu , Ge Chen , Zhirui Yang , Junchen Wan , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Yong Liu

The high cost of data labeling often results in node label shortage in real applications. To improve node classification accuracy, graph-based semi-supervised learning leverages the ample unlabeled nodes to train together with the scarce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jiaren Xiao , Quanyu Dai , Xiaochen Xie , James Lam , Ka-Wai Kwok

Heterogeneous graphs (HGs) are composed of multiple types of nodes and edges, making it more effective in capturing the complex relational structures inherent in the real world. However, in real-world scenarios, labeled data is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ruobing Jiang , Yacong Li , Haobing Liu , Yanwei Yu

Node classification in real world graphs often suffers from label scarcity and noise, especially in high stakes domains like human trafficking detection and misinformation monitoring. While direct supervision is limited, such graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Pratheeksha Nair , Reihaneh Rabbany