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Graph neural network (GNN), as a powerful representation learning model on graph data, attracts much attention across various disciplines. However, recent studies show that GNN is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. How to make GNN more…

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Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, posing significant challenges to their deployment in safety-critical scenarios. This vulnerability has spurred a growing focus on designing…

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Recent advances in protecting node privacy on graph data and attacking graph neural networks (GNNs) gain much attention. The eye does not bring these two essential tasks together yet. Imagine an adversary can utilize the powerful GNNs to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-23 I-Chung Hsieh , Cheng-Te Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for learning from graph-structured data in domains such as social networks, recommender systems, and financial platforms. To comply with privacy regulations like the GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA,…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results in tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing a significant threat to their…

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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to the black-box adversarial attack that is highly transferable. This threat comes from the distribution gap between adversarial and clean samples in feature space of the target DNNs. In this…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promising results on real-life datasets and applications, including healthcare, finance, and education. However, recent studies have shown that GNNs are highly vulnerable to attacks such as membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Anmar Hizber , Oliver Sihlovec , Megha Khosla

Adversarial learning and the robustness of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are topics of widespread interest in the machine learning community, as documented by the number of adversarial attacks and defenses designed for these purposes. While…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are a class of effective deep learning models for node classification tasks; yet their predictive capability may be severely compromised under adversarially designed unnoticeable perturbations to the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Xiao Zang , Jie Chen , Bo Yuan

Deep learning methods for graphs achieve remarkable performance across a variety of domains. However, recent findings indicate that small, unnoticeable perturbations of graph structure can catastrophically reduce performance of even the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Xiang Zhang , Marinka Zitnik

Adversarial attacks on graphs have attracted considerable research interests. Existing works assume the attacker is either (partly) aware of the victim model, or able to send queries to it. These assumptions are, however, unrealistic. To…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have drawn significant attentions over the years and been broadly applied to vital fields that require high security standard such as product recommendation and traffic forecasting. Under such scenarios,…

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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…

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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…

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A cursory reading of the literature suggests that we have made a lot of progress in designing effective adversarial defenses for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Yet, the standard methodology has a serious flaw - virtually all of the defenses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Felix Mujkanovic , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann , Aleksandar Bojchevski

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have attracted substantial interest due to their exceptional performance on graph-based data. However, their robustness, especially on heterogeneous graphs, remains underexplored, particularly against…

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Graph deep learning models, such as graph convolutional networks (GCN) achieve remarkable performance for tasks on graph data. Similar to other types of deep models, graph deep learning models often suffer from adversarial attacks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Huijun Wu , Chen Wang , Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Andrew Docherty , Kai Lu , Liming Zhu

Deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Among different attack settings, the most challenging yet the most practical one is the hard-label setting where the attacker only has access to the hard-label output (prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Jinghui Chen , Quanquan Gu

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…

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