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Deep learning models for graphs have achieved strong performance for the task of node classification. Despite their proliferation, currently there is no study of their robustness to adversarial attacks. Yet, in domains where they are likely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-10 Daniel Zügner , Amir Akbarnejad , Stephan Günnemann

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful in modeling graph-structured data. However, similar to other machine learning models, GNNs can exhibit bias in predictions based on attributes like race and gender. Moreover, bias in GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zengyi Wo , Chang Liu , Yumeng Wang , Minglai Shao , Wenjun Wang

Recent breakthroughs in defenses against adversarial examples, like adversarial training, make the neural networks robust against various classes of attackers (e.g., first-order gradient-based attacks). However, it is an open question…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Shiqi Wang , Yizheng Chen , Ahmed Abdou , Suman Jana

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) typically operate by message-passing, where the state of a node is updated based on the information received from its neighbours. Most message-passing models act as graph convolutions, where features are mixed…

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success, their design largely relies on empirical intuition rather than theoretical understanding. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of GNN behavior through three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Qin Jiang , Chengjia Wang , Michael Lones , Wei Pang

Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) exhibit strong biases towards the node degree: they usually perform satisfactorily on high-degree nodes with rich neighbor information but struggle with low-degree nodes. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Wenhao Yu , Neil Shah , Yanfang Ye

Over the past few years, graph neural networks (GNN) and label propagation-based methods have made significant progress in addressing node classification tasks on graphs. However, in addition to their reliance on elaborate architectures and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Yangkun Wang , Jiarui Jin , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu , Zheng Zhang , David Wipf

Recent studies have shown that graph convolution networks (GCNs) are vulnerable to carefully designed attacks, which aim to cause misclassification of a specific node on the graph with unnoticeable perturbations. However, a vast majority of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Jihong Wang , Minnan Luo , Fnu Suya , Jundong Li , Zijiang Yang , Qinghua Zheng

In this paper, we present a stealthy and effective attack that exposes privacy vulnerabilities in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by inferring private links within graph-structured data. Focusing on the inductive setting where new nodes join…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Oualid Zari , Javier Parra-Arnau , Ayşe Ünsal , Melek Önen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) and label propagation represent two interrelated modeling strategies designed to exploit graph structure in tasks such as node property prediction. The former is typically based on stacked message-passing layers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Yangkun Wang , Jiarui Jin , Weinan Zhang , Yongyi Yang , Jiuhai Chen , Quan Gan , Yong Yu , Zheng Zhang , Zengfeng Huang , David Wipf

Graph neural networks (GNNs) and message passing neural networks (MPNNs) have been proven to be expressive for subgraph structures in many applications. Some applications in heterogeneous graphs require explicit edge modeling, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Xin Liu , Yangqiu Song

Deploying graph neural networks (GNNs) on whole-graph classification or regression tasks is known to be challenging: it often requires computing node features that are mindful of both local interactions in their neighbourhood and the global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Andreea Deac , Marc Lackenby , Petar Veličković

Recent studies have shown that Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks on the graph structure. Although multiple works have been proposed to improve their robustness against such structural adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Liang Chen , Jintang Li , Qibiao Peng , Yang Liu , Zibin Zheng , Carl Yang

Training deep graph neural networks (GNNs) poses a challenging task, as the performance of GNNs may suffer from the number of hidden message-passing layers. The literature has focused on the proposals of {over-smoothing} and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-27 Yirui Liu , Xinghao Qiao , Liying Wang , Jessica Lam

Graph Neural Network (GNN), with the main idea of encoding graph structure information of graphs by propagation and aggregation, has developed rapidly. It achieved excellent performance in representation learning of multiple types of graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yushan Zhu , Wen Zhang , Yajing Xu , Zhen Yao , Mingyang Chen , Huajun Chen

Message Passing Neural Networks (MPNNs) are instances of Graph Neural Networks that leverage the graph to send messages over the edges. This inductive bias leads to a phenomenon known as over-squashing, where a node feature is insensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Francesco Di Giovanni , Lorenzo Giusti , Federico Barbero , Giulia Luise , Pietro Lio' , Michael Bronstein

Class imbalance is pervasive in real-world graph datasets, where the majority of annotated nodes belong to a small set of classes (majority classes), leaving many other classes (minority classes) with only a handful of labeled nodes. Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Abdullah Alchihabi , Hao Yan , Yuhong Guo

Graph Neural Networks (graph NNs) are a promising deep learning approach for analyzing graph-structured data. However, it is known that they do not improve (or sometimes worsen) their predictive performance as we pile up many layers and add…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Kenta Oono , Taiji Suzuki

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful models for learning from graph-structured data. However, their widespread adoption has raised serious privacy concerns. While prior research has primarily focused on edge-level privacy,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jie Fu , Yuan Hong , Zhili Chen , Wendy Hui Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be powerful in many graph-based applications. However, they fail to generalize well under heterophilic setups, where neighbor nodes have different labels. To address this challenge, we employ a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Yoonhyuk Choi , Jiho Choi , Taewook Ko , Chong-Kwon Kim