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Anomaly detection in multivariate time series (MTS) is hindered by dynamic inter-variable dependencies and feature entanglement under spectral noise, and in practice, is further complicated by the absence of anomaly labels. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Yunhua Pei , Zixing Song , Jin Zheng , John Cartlidge

Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

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

Detecting anomalous nodes in attributed networks, where each node is associated with both structural connections and descriptive attributes, is essential for identifying fraud, misinformation, and suspicious behavior in domains such as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Apu Chakraborty , Anshul Kumar , Gagan Raj Gupta

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

Combining Graph neural networks (GNNs) with contrastive learning for anomaly detection has drawn rising attention recently. Existing graph contrastive anomaly detection (GCAD) methods have primarily focused on improving detection capability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Zhiyuan Liu , Chunjie Cao , Fangjian Tao , Jingzhang Sun

Graph anomaly detection plays a crucial role in identifying exceptional instances in graph data that deviate significantly from the majority. It has gained substantial attention in various domains of information security, including network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Fan Xu , Nan Wang , Xuezhi Wen , Meiqi Gao , Chaoqun Guo , Xibin Zhao

Anomaly detection is one of the most active research areas in various critical domains, such as healthcare, fintech, and public security. However, little attention has been paid to scholarly data, i.e., anomaly detection in a citation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jiaying Liu , Feng Xia , Xu Feng , Jing Ren , Huan Liu

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

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

Semi-supervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) utilizes a small set of labeled normal nodes to identify abnormal nodes from a large set of unlabeled nodes in a graph. Current methods in this line posit that 1) normal nodes share a similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guoguo Ai , Hezhe Qiao , Hui Yan , Guansong Pang

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) plays a vital role in various data mining applications such as e-commerce fraud prevention and malicious user detection. Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN) based approach has demonstrated great effectiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hang Ni , Jindong Han , Nengjun Zhu , Hao Liu

Unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has attracted increasing interest due to its widespread application. In recent studies, knowledge distillation-based methods have been widely used in unsupervised anomaly detection to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rui Cao , Shijie Xue , Jindong Li , Qi Wang , Yi Chang

Does the intrinsic curvature of complex networks hold the key to unveiling graph anomalies that conventional approaches overlook? Reconstruction-based graph anomaly detection (GAD) methods overlook such geometric outliers, focusing only on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Karish Grover , Geoffrey J. Gordon , Christos Faloutsos

Unsupervised graph anomaly detection is crucial for various practical applications as it aims to identify anomalies in a graph that exhibit rare patterns deviating significantly from the majority of nodes. Recent advancements have utilized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Yuanchen Bei , Sheng Zhou , Qiaoyu Tan , Hao Xu , Hao Chen , Zhao Li , Jiajun Bu

The widespread application of graph data in various high-risk scenarios has increased attention to graph anomaly detection (GAD). Faced with real-world graphs that often carry node descriptions in the form of raw text sequences, termed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yiming Xu , Xu Hua , Zhen Peng , Bin Shi , Jiarun Chen , Xingbo Fu , Song Wang , Bo Dong

Semi-supervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) has recently received increasing attention, which aims to distinguish anomalous patterns from graphs under the guidance of a moderate amount of labeled data and a large volume of unlabeled data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiazhen Chen , Sichao Fu , Zheng Ma , Mingbin Feng , Tony S. Wirjanto , Qinmu Peng

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is widely applied in many areas, such as financial fraud detection and social spammer detection. Anomalous nodes in the graph not only impact their own communities but also create a ripple effect on neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhu Wang , Junnan Dong , Shuang Zhou , Chang Yang , Shengjie Zhao , Xiao Huang

Unsupervised GAD methods assume the lack of anomaly labels, i.e., whether a node is anomalous or not. One common observation we made from previous unsupervised methods is that they not only assume the absence of such anomaly labels, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Junghoon Kim , Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Junmo Lee , Chanyoung Park

To build safe and reliable graph machine learning systems, unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) and unsupervised graph-level out-of-distribution (OOD) detection (GLOD) have received significant attention in recent years. Though…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yili Wang , Yixin Liu , Xu Shen , Chenyu Li , Kaize Ding , Rui Miao , Ying Wang , Shirui Pan , Xin Wang