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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task since even a few anomalies can pose huge threats to benign users. Recent semi-supervised GAD methods, which can effectively leverage the available labels as prior knowledge, have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Shuang Zhou , Xiao Huang , Ninghao Liu , Fu-Lai Chung , Long-Kai Huang

A significant number of anomalous nodes in the real world, such as fake news, noncompliant users, malicious transactions, and malicious posts, severely compromises the health of the graph data ecosystem and urgently requires effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiong Zhang , Hong Peng , Changlong Fu , Xin Jin , Yun Yang , Cheng Xie

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is a challenging and practical research topic where Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently shown promising results. The effectiveness of existing GNNs in GAD has been mainly attributed to the simultaneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Jiashun Cheng , Zinan Zheng , Yang Liu , Jianheng Tang , Hongwei Wang , Yu Rong , Jia Li , Fugee Tsung

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify uncommon, deviated, or suspicious objects within graph-structured data. Existing methods generally focus on a single graph object type (node, edge, graph, etc.) and often overlook the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yiqing Lin , Jianheng Tang , Chenyi Zi , H. Vicky Zhao , Yuan Yao , Jia Li

Unlike conventional anomaly detection research that focuses on point anomalies, our goal is to detect anomalous collections of individual data points. In particular, we perform group anomaly detection (GAD) with an emphasis on irregular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Raghavendra Chalapathy , Edward Toth , Sanjay Chawla

Graph contrastive learning (GCL) has garnered significant attention recently since it learns complex structural information from graphs through self-supervised learning manner. However, prevalent GCL models may suffer from performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xiaofan Wei , Binyan Zhang

Anomaly analytics is a popular and vital task in various research contexts, which has been studied for several decades. At the same time, deep learning has shown its capacity in solving many graph-based tasks like, node classification, link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jing Ren , Feng Xia , Azadeh Noori Hoshyar , Charu C. Aggarwal

Real world data is mostly unlabeled or only few instances are labeled. Manually labeling data is a very expensive and daunting task. This calls for unsupervised learning techniques that are powerful enough to achieve comparable results as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Zekarias T. Kefato , Sarunas Girdzijauskas

Graph representation learning has attracted a surge of interest recently, whose target at learning discriminant embedding for each node in the graph. Most of these representation methods focus on supervised learning and heavily depend on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Pengpeng Shao , Tong Liu , Dawei Zhang , Jianhua Tao , Feihu Che , Guohua Yang

This survey paper presents a comprehensive and conceptual overview of anomaly detection using dynamic graphs. We focus on existing graph-based anomaly detection (AD) techniques and their applications to dynamic networks. The contributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle

Anomaly detection has wide applications in machine intelligence but is still a difficult unsolved problem. Major challenges include the rarity of labeled anomalies and it is a class highly imbalanced problem. Traditional unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhi Chen , Jiang Duan , Li Kang , Guoping Qiu

The task of graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) is to identify anomalous graphs that deviate significantly from the majority of graphs in a dataset. While deep GLAD methods have shown promising performance, their black-box nature limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiuran Zhao , Kai Ming Ting , Xinpeng Li

This paper studies the problem of detecting anomalous graphs using a machine learning model trained on only normal graphs, which has many applications in molecule, biology, and social network data analysis. We present a self-discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jinyu Cai , Yunhe Zhang , Jicong Fan

Heterogeneous graph neural network (HGNN) is a very popular technique for the modeling and analysis of heterogeneous graphs. Most existing HGNN-based approaches are supervised or semi-supervised learning methods requiring graphs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Cuiying Huo , Dongxiao He , Yawen Li , Di Jin , Jianwu Dang , Weixiong Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Lingfei Wu

The superiority of graph contrastive learning (GCL) has prompted its application to anomaly detection tasks for more powerful risk warning systems. Unfortunately, existing GCL-based models tend to excessively prioritize overall detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yiming Xu , Zhen Peng , Bin Shi , Xu Hua , Bo Dong , Song Wang , Chen Chen

Detecting anomalous nodes in attributed networks, where each node is associated with both structural connections and descriptive attributes, is essential for identifying fraud, misinformation, and suspicious behavior in domains such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Apu Chakraborty , Anshul Kumar , Gagan Raj Gupta

The external visual inspections of rolling stock's underfloor equipment are currently being performed via human visual inspection. In this study, we attempt to partly automate visual inspection by investigating anomaly inspection algorithms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Yohei Baba , Takuro Hoshi , Ryosuke Mori , Gaurang Gavai

Deep learning on graphs has recently achieved remarkable success on a variety of tasks, while such success relies heavily on the massive and carefully labeled data. However, precise annotations are generally very expensive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Lirong Wu , Haitao Lin , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan. Z. Li

Attributed graph clustering, which learns node representation from node attribute and topological graph for clustering, is a fundamental but challenging task for graph analysis. Recently, methods based on graph contrastive learning (GCL)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Wei Xia , Quanxue Gao , Ming Yang , Xinbo Gao

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is critical for identifying abnormal nodes in graph-structured data from diverse domains, including cybersecurity and social networks. The existing GAD methods often focus on the learning paradigms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Yu Zheng , Qingfeng Chen , Chengqi Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Shirui Pan