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Signature-based botnet detection methods identify botnets by recognizing Command and Control (C\&C) traffic and can be ineffective for botnets that use new and sophisticate mechanisms for such communications. To address these limitations,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-10 Jing Wang , Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis

Detecting the Maximum Common Subgraph (MCS) between two input graphs is fundamental for applications in drug synthesis, malware detection, cloud computing, etc. However, MCS computation is NP-hard, and state-of-the-art MCS solvers rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Yunsheng Bai , Derek Xu , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Narrowing the performance gap between optimal and feasible detection in inter-symbol interference (ISI) channels, this paper proposes to use graph neural networks (GNNs) for detection that can also be used to perform joint detection and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Jannis Clausius , Marvin Rübenacke , Daniel Tandler , Stephan ten Brink

The problem of detecting bots, automated social media accounts governed by software but disguising as human users, has strong implications. For example, bots have been used to sway political elections by distorting online discourse, to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Sneha Kudugunta , Emilio Ferrara

Twitter bot detection has become an important and challenging task to combat misinformation and protect the integrity of the online discourse. State-of-the-art approaches generally leverage the topological structure of the Twittersphere,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Shangbin Feng , Zhaoxuan Tan , Rui Li , Minnan Luo

The emerging graph Transformers have achieved impressive performance for graph representation learning over graph neural networks (GNNs). In this work, we regard the self-attention mechanism, the core module of graph Transformers, as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jinsong Chen , Gaichao Li , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

The graph-based recommendation has achieved great success in recent years. However, most existing graph-based recommendations focus on capturing user preference based on positive edges/feedback, while ignoring negative edges/feedback (e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Yiqing Wu , Ruobing Xie , Zhao Zhang , Xu Zhang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Leyu Lin , Zhanhui Kang , Yongjun Xu

Detecting social bots has evolved into a pivotal yet intricate task, aimed at combating the dissemination of misinformation and preserving the authenticity of online interactions. While earlier graph-based approaches, which leverage…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Buyun He , Yingguang Yang , Qi Wu , Hao Liu , Renyu Yang , Hao Peng , Xiang Wang , Yong Liao , Pengyuan Zhou

Predicting interactions between structured entities lies at the core of numerous tasks such as drug regimen and new material design. In recent years, graph neural networks have become attractive. They represent structured entities as graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Nuo Xu , Pinghui Wang , Long Chen , Jing Tao , Junzhou Zhao

The online prediction of multivariate signals, existing simultaneously in space and time, from noisy partial observations is a fundamental task in numerous applications. We propose an efficient Neural Network architecture for the online…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yi Yan , Changran Peng , Ercan Engin Kuruoglu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, much less work has been done on signal classification, where the data consists of many functions (referred…

Although social bots can be engineered for constructive applications, their potential for misuse in manipulative schemes and malware distribution cannot be overlooked. This dichotomy underscores the critical need to detect social bots on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Tingxuan Wu , Zhaorui Ma , Yanjun Cui , Ziyi Zhou , Eric Wang

Social bot detection is pivotal for safeguarding the integrity of online information ecosystems. Although recent graph neural network (GNN) solutions achieve strong results, they remain hindered by two practical challenges: (i) severe class…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Longlong Zhang , Xi Wang , Haotong Du , Yangyi Xu , Zhuo Liu , Yang Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing and learning representations from graph-structured data. A crucial prerequisite for the outstanding performance of GNNs is the availability of complete graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Peng Yuan , Peng Tang

The increasing incidence of IoT-based botnet attacks has driven interest in advanced learning models for detection. Recent efforts have focused on leveraging attention mechanisms to model long-range feature dependencies and Graph Neural…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hassan Wasswa , Hussein Abbass , Timothy Lynar

This paper focuses on the detection of potentially dangerous tendencies of social media users in an innovative multimodal way. We integrate Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) together. Firstly, we apply NLP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cuiqianhe Du , Chia-En Chiang , Tianyi Huang , Zikun Cui

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained significant attention as a powerful modeling and inference method, especially for homophilic graph-structured data. To empower GNNs in heterophilic graphs, where adjacent nodes exhibit dissimilar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Langzhang Liang , Sunwoo Kim , Kijung Shin , Zenglin Xu , Shirui Pan , Yuan Qi

Self-supervised learning has shown its promising capability in graph representation learning in recent work. Most existing pre-training strategies usually choose the popular Graph neural networks (GNNs), which can be seen as a special form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yilin Ding , Zhen Liu , Hao Hao

Although not all bots are malicious, the vast majority of them are responsible for spreading misinformation and manipulating the public opinion about several issues, i.e., elections and many more. Therefore, the early detection of bots is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Loukas Ilias , Ioannis Michail Kazelidis , Dimitris Askounis

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated impressive performance across diverse graph-based tasks by leveraging message passing to capture complex node relationships. However, on large-scale real-world graphs, GNNs face two major…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xiang Li , Jianpeng Qi , Haobing Liu , Yuan Cao , Guoqing Chao , Zhongying Zhao , Junyu Dong , Xinwang Liu , Yanwei Yu