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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is crucial in applications like fraud detection and cybersecurity. Despite recent advancements using graph neural networks (GNNs), two major challenges persist. At the model level, most methods adopt a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chunyu Wei , Siyuan He , Yu Wang , Yueguo Chen , Yunhai Wang , Bing Bai , Yidong Zhang , Yong Xie , Shunming Zhang , Fei Wang

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a successful tool in a variety of graph-related applications. However, the performance of GNNs can be deteriorated when noisy connections occur in the original graph structures;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Yixin Liu , Yu Zheng , Daokun Zhang , Hongxu Chen , Hao Peng , Shirui Pan

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

To detect anomalies in real-world graphs, such as social, email, and financial networks, various approaches have been developed. While they typically assume static input graphs, most real-world graphs grow over time, naturally represented…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Jongha Lee , Sunwoo Kim , Kijung Shin

Graph Neural Network (GNN) is an emerging technique for graph-based learning tasks such as node classification. In this work, we reveal the vulnerability of GNN to the imbalance of node labels. Traditional solutions for imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Xiaohe Li , Lijie Wen , Yawen Deng , Fuli Feng , Xuming Hu , Lei Wang , Zide Fan

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

Human analysts that use anomaly detection systems in practice want to retain the use of simple and explainable global anomaly detectors. In this paper, we propose a novel human-in-the-loop learning algorithm called GLAD (GLocalized Anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Md Rakibul Islam , Shubhomoy Das , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Sriraam Natarajan

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 classification is a challenging problem owing to the difficulty in quantifying the similarity between graphs or representing graphs as vectors, though there have been a few methods using graph kernels or graph neural networks (GNNs).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Zixiao Wang , Jicong Fan

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

Anomaly detection on dynamic graphs refers to detecting entities whose behaviors obviously deviate from the norms observed within graphs and their temporal information. This field has drawn increasing attention due to its application in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shiqi Lou , Qingyue Zhang , Shujie Yang , Yuyang Tian , Zhaoxuan Tan , Minnan Luo

Anomaly detection is a critical task in cybersecurity, where identifying insider threats, access violations, and coordinated attacks is essential for ensuring system resilience. Graph-based approaches have become increasingly important for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Jiang , Reza Ryan , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

Node-level graph anomaly detection (GAD) plays a critical role in identifying anomalous nodes from graph-structured data in various domains such as medicine, social networks, and e-commerce. However, challenges have arisen due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Junjun Pan , Yixin Liu , Yizhen Zheng , Shirui Pan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown success in learning from graph structured data containing node/edge feature information, with application to social networks, recommendation, fraud detection and knowledge graph reasoning. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Xiang Song , Runjie Ma , Jiahang Li , Muhan Zhang , David Paul Wipf

Graph-Level Anomaly Detection (GLAD) aims to distinguish anomalous graphs within a graph dataset. However, current methods are constrained by their receptive fields, struggling to learn global features within the graphs. Moreover, most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Fan Xu , Nan Wang , Hao Wu , Xuezhi Wen , Dalin Zhang , Siyang Lu , Binyong Li , Wei Gong , Hai Wan , Xibin Zhao

Detecting anomalies in dynamic graphs is a vital task, with numerous practical applications in areas such as security, finance, and social media. Previous network embedding based methods have been mostly focusing on learning good node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Lei Cai , Zhengzhang Chen , Chen Luo , Jiaping Gui , Jingchao Ni , Ding Li , Haifeng Chen

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 Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results on many graph analysis tasks such as node classification and link prediction. However, important unsupervised problems on graphs, such as graph clustering, have proved more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Anton Tsitsulin , John Palowitch , Bryan Perozzi , Emmanuel Müller

Graph-based anomaly detection is pivotal in diverse security applications, such as fraud detection in transaction networks and intrusion detection for network traffic. Standard approaches, including Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Andy Zhou , Xiaojun Xu , Ramesh Raghunathan , Alok Lal , Xinze Guan , Bin Yu , Bo Li

Anomaly detection is a crucial task in complex distributed systems. A thorough understanding of the requirements and challenges of anomaly detection is pivotal to the security of such systems, especially for real-world deployment. While…