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We propose a simple yet effective method for detecting anomalous instances on an attribute graph with label information of a small number of instances. Although with standard anomaly detection methods it is usually assumed that instances…

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While GNN-based detection methods excel at identifying overt outliers, they often struggle with boundary anomalies -- subtly camouflaged nodes that are difficult to distinguish from normal instances. This limitation highlights a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hwan Kim , Junghoon Kim , Sungsu Lim

In general, anomaly detection is the problem of distinguishing between normal data samples with well defined patterns or signatures and those that do not conform to the expected profiles. Financial transactions, customer reviews, social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Paul Irofti , Andrei Patrascu , Andra Baltoiu

Graph-level anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal graphs that exhibit deviant structures and node attributes compared to the majority in a graph set. One primary challenge is to learn normal patterns manifested in both fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task in graph-based machine learning and has been widely applied in many real-world applications. The primary goal of GAD is to capture anomalous nodes from graph datasets, which evidently deviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jingcan Duan , Siwei Wang , Pei Zhang , En Zhu , Jingtao Hu , Hu Jin , Yue Liu , Zhibin Dong

Different from the current node-level anomaly detection task, the goal of graph-level anomaly detection is to find abnormal graphs that significantly differ from others in a graph set. Due to the scarcity of research on the work of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Fu Lin , Xuexiong Luo , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Zitong Wang , Haonan Gong

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is essential for identifying malicious activities, fraud, and unexpected behaviors in real-world systems such as cybersecurity and power grids. However, existing approaches struggle with scalability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle

Graph-level anomaly detection has become a critical topic in diverse areas, such as financial fraud detection and detecting anomalous activities in social networks. While most research has focused on anomaly detection for visual data such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

Given high-dimensional time series data (e.g., sensor data), how can we detect anomalous events, such as system faults and attacks? More challengingly, how can we do this in a way that captures complex inter-sensor relationships, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ailin Deng , Bryan Hooi

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 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

In the web era, graph machine learning has been widely used on ubiquitous graph-structured data. As a pivotal component for bolstering web security and enhancing the robustness of graph-based applications, the significance of graph anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Wenjing Chang , Kay Liu , Kaize Ding , Philip S. Yu , Jianjun Yu

Weakly supervised graph anomaly detection aims to unveil unusual graph instances, e.g., nodes, whose behaviors significantly differ from normal ones, given only a limited number of annotated anomalies and abundant unlabeled samples. A major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yingjie Zhou , Yuqin Xie , Fanxing Liu , Dongjin Song , Ce Zhu , Lingqiao Liu

Given a complex graph database of node- and edge-attributed multi-graphs as well as associated metadata for each graph, how can we spot the anomalous instances? Many real-world problems can be cast as graph inference tasks where the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Lingxiao Zhao , Pierre Jinghong Liang , Leman Akoglu

Real-world graphs are complex to process for performing effective analysis, such as anomaly detection. However, recently, there have been several research efforts addressing the issues surrounding graph-based anomaly detection. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Prabin B Lamichhane , William Eberle

Anomaly detection aims to distinguish abnormal instances that deviate significantly from the majority of benign ones. As instances that appear in the real world are naturally connected and can be represented with graphs, graph neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sheng Tian , Jihai Dong , Jintang Li , Wenlong Zhao , Xiaolong Xu , Baokun wang , Bowen Song , Changhua Meng , Tianyi Zhang , Liang Chen

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

Anomaly detection from graph data has drawn much attention due to its practical significance in many critical applications including cybersecurity, finance, and social networks. Existing data mining and machine learning methods are either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Yu Zheng , Ming Jin , Yixin Liu , Lianhua Chi , Khoa T. Phan , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

Recent Anomaly Detection techniques have progressed the field considerably but at the cost of increasingly complex training pipelines. Such techniques require large amounts of training data, resulting in computationally expensive algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Niamh Belton , Misgina Tsighe Hagos , Aonghus Lawlor , Kathleen M. Curran

Graph-based anomaly detection has been widely used for detecting malicious activities in real-world applications. Existing attempts to address this problem have thus far focused on structural feature engineering or learning in the binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Bo Chen , Jing Zhang , Xiaokang Zhang , Yuxiao Dong , Jian Song , Peng Zhang , Kaibo Xu , Evgeny Kharlamov , Jie Tang