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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify irregular nodes or structures in attributed graphs. Neighbor information, which reflects both structural connectivity and attribute consistency with surrounding nodes, is essential for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qing Qing , Huafei Huang , Mingliang Hou , Renqiang Luo , Mohsen Guizani

Graph anomaly detection has long been an important problem in various domains pertaining to information security such as financial fraud, social spam and network intrusion. The majority of existing methods are performed in an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiongxiao Xu , Kaize Ding , Canyu Chen , Kai Shu

Anomaly detection in graph-structured data is an inherently challenging problem, as it requires the identification of rare nodes that deviate from the majority in both their structural and behavioral characteristics. Existing methods, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Mingkang Li , Xuexiong Luo , Yue Zhang , Yaoyang Li , Fu Lin

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

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

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 contrastive learning (GCL) has recently emerged as a new concept which allows for capitalizing on the strengths of graph neural networks (GNNs) to learn rich representations in a wide variety of applications which involve abundant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yuzhou Chen , Jose Frias , Yulia R. Gel

A graph-based sampling and consensus (GraphSAC) approach is introduced to effectively detect anomalous nodes in large-scale graphs. Existing approaches rely on connectivity and attributes of all nodes to assign an anomaly score per node.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

The natural combination of intricate topological structures and rich textual information in text-attributed graphs (TAGs) opens up a novel perspective for graph anomaly detection (GAD). However, existing GAD methods primarily focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yiming Xu , Jiarun Chen , Zhen Peng , Zihan Chen , Qika Lin , Lan Ma , Bin Shi , Bo Dong

Motivated by the recent surge of criminal activities with cross-cryptocurrency trades, we introduce a new topological perspective to structural anomaly detection in dynamic multilayer networks. We postulate that anomalies in the underlying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Dorcas Ofori-Boateng , Ignacio Segovia Dominguez , Murat Kantarcioglu , Cuneyt G. Akcora , Yulia R. Gel

This paper investigates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) application for self-supervised network intrusion and anomaly detection. GNNs are a deep learning approach for graph-based data that incorporate graph structures into learning to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Evan Caville , Wai Weng Lo , Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann

With the rapid growth of graph-structured data in critical domains, unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has become a pivotal task. UGAD seeks to identify entire graphs that deviate from normal behavioral patterns. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Qingfeng Chen , Haojin Zeng , Jingyi Jie , Shichao Zhang , Debo Cheng

Unsupervised anomaly detection in time series is essential in industrial applications, as it significantly reduces the need for manual intervention. Multivariate time series pose a complex challenge due to their feature and temporal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zhe Liu , Xiang Huang , Jingyun Zhang , Zhifeng Hao , Li Sun , Hao Peng

Unsupervised graph representation learning aims to learn low-dimensional node embeddings without supervision while preserving graph topological structures and node attributive features. Previous graph neural networks (GNN) require a large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Graph anomaly detection technology has broad applications in financial fraud and risk control. However, existing graph anomaly detection methods often face significant challenges when dealing with complex and variable abnormal patterns, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qingyue Cao , Bo Jin , Changwei Gong , Xin Tong , Wenzheng Li , Xiaodong Zhou

Anomaly detection in continuous-time dynamic graphs is an emerging field yet under-explored in the context of learning algorithms. In this paper, we pioneer structured analyses of link-level anomalies and graph representation learning for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Tim Poštuvan , Claas Grohnfeldt , Michele Russo , Giulio Lovisotto

A large number of studies on Graph Outlier Detection (GOD) have emerged in recent years due to its wide applications, in which Unsupervised Node Outlier Detection (UNOD) on attributed networks is an important area. UNOD focuses on detecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yihong Huang , Liping Wang , Fan Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Anomaly detection aims to identify deviations from normal patterns within data. This task is particularly crucial in dynamic graphs, which are common in applications like social networks and cybersecurity, due to their evolving structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xiao Yang , Xuejiao Zhao , Zhiqi Shen

This work considers the problem of heterogeneous graph-level anomaly detection. Heterogeneous graphs are commonly used to represent behaviours between different types of entities in complex industrial systems for capturing as much…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Jiaxi Li , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen , Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad

A multitude of toxic online behaviors, ranging from network attacks to anonymous traffic and spam, have severely disrupted the smooth operation of networks. Due to the inherent sender-receiver nature of network behaviors, graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ziqi Yuan , Haoyi Zhou , Tianyu Chen , Jianxin Li