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The existing research on robust Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) fails to acknowledge the significance of directed graphs in providing rich information about networks' inherent structure. This work presents the first investigation into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Zhichao Hou , Xitong Zhang , Wei Wang , Charu C. Aggarwal , Xiaorui Liu

Graph neural network (GNN) models play a pivotal role in numerous tasks involving graph-related data analysis. Despite their efficacy, similar to other deep learning models, GNNs are susceptible to adversarial attacks. Even minor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Duanyu Li , Huijun Wu , Min Xie , Xugang Wu , Zhenwei Wu , Wenzhe Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in relational learning. However, their vulnerability to graph backdoor attacks (GBAs) poses a significant barrier to broader adoption in high-stakes applications. Despite recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Mengting Pan , Fan Li , Chen Chen , Xiaoyang Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in various real-world applications. However, recent studies highlight the vulnerability of GNNs to malicious perturbations. Previous adversaries primarily focus on graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Dayuan Chen , Jian Zhang , Yuqian Lv , Jinhuan Wang , Hongjie Ni , Shanqing Yu , Zhen Wang , Qi Xuan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have established themselves as a key component in addressing diverse graph-based tasks. Despite their notable successes, GNNs remain susceptible to input perturbations in the form of adversarial attacks. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Moshe Eliasof , Davide Murari , Ferdia Sherry , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

One intriguing property of deep neural networks (DNNs) is their inherent vulnerability to backdoor attacks -- a trojan model responds to trigger-embedded inputs in a highly predictable manner while functioning normally otherwise. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zhaohan Xi , Ren Pang , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

The susceptibility of deep neural networks to untrustworthy predictions, including out-of-distribution (OOD) data and adversarial examples, still prevent their widespread use in safety-critical applications. Most existing methods either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Leo Schwinn , An Nguyen , René Raab , Leon Bungert , Daniel Tenbrinck , Dario Zanca , Martin Burger , Bjoern Eskofier

With the great success of graph embedding model on both academic and industry area, the robustness of graph embedding against adversarial attack inevitably becomes a central problem in graph learning domain. Regardless of the fruitful…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Heng Chang , Yu Rong , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang , Honglei Zhang , Peng Cui , Wenwu Zhu , Junzhou Huang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been popularly used in analyzing graph-structured data, showing promising results in various applications such as node classification, link prediction and network recommendation. In this paper, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qinkai Zheng , Houyi Li , Peng Zhang , Zhixiong Yang , Guowei Zhang , Xintan Zeng , Yongchao Liu

Graph embedding is an effective method to represent graph data in a low dimensional space for graph analytics. Most existing embedding algorithms typically focus on preserving the topological structure or minimizing the reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Shirui Pan , Ruiqi Hu , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Lina Yao , Chengqi Zhang

Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (GraphRAG) systems construct knowledge graphs over document collections to support multi-hop reasoning. While prior work shows that GraphRAG responses may leak retrieved subgraphs, the feasibility…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shuhua Yang , Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Dongwon Lee , Suhang Wang

We study the problem of semi-supervised learning with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in an active learning setup. We propose GraphPart, a novel partition-based active learning approach for GNNs. GraphPart first splits the graph into disjoint…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jiaqi Ma , Ziqiao Ma , Joyce Chai , Qiaozhu Mei

Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where adversaries implant malicious triggers to manipulate model predictions. Existing trigger generators are often simplistic in structure and overly reliant on specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Dongyi Liu , Jiangtong Li

Graphs can be used to represent and reason about systems and a variety of metrics have been devised to quantify their global characteristics. However, little is currently known about how to construct a graph or improve an existing one given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Stephen Hailes , Mirco Musolesi

Backdoor attacks in the traditional graph neural networks (GNNs) field are easily detectable due to the dilemma of confusing labels. To explore the backdoor vulnerability of GNNs and create a more stealthy backdoor attack method, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Xiaogang Xing , Ming Xu , Yujing Bai , Dongdong Yang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in various graph structure related tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Existing works…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Jiaming Mu , Binghui Wang , Qi Li , Kun Sun , Mingwei Xu , Zhuotao Liu

Shortest paths in complex networks play key roles in many applications. Examples include routing packets in a computer network, routing traffic on a transportation network, and inferring semantic distances between concepts on the World Wide…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Benjamin A. Miller , Zohair Shafi , Wheeler Ruml , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Tina Eliassi-Rad , Scott Alfeld

Backdoor attack is a powerful attack algorithm to deep learning model. Recently, GNN's vulnerability to backdoor attack has been proved especially on graph classification task. In this paper, we propose the first backdoor detection and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Bingchen Jiang , Zhao Li

Cyberterrorism poses a formidable threat to digital infrastructures, with increasing reliance on encrypted, decentralized platforms that obscure threat actor activity. To address the challenge of analyzing such adversarial networks while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Anas Ali , Mubashar Husain , Peter Hans

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) become increasingly popular for learning from large-scale graph data across various domains, their susceptibility to adversarial attacks when using graph reduction techniques for scalability remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Kerui Wu , Ka-Ho Chow , Wenqi Wei , Lei Yu