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Graph anomaly detection aims to identify irregular patterns in graph-structured data. Most unsupervised GNN-based methods rely on the homophily assumption that connected nodes share similar attributes. However, real-world graphs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zehao Wang , Lanjun Wang

Anomaly detection aims to distinguish abnormal instances that deviate significantly from the majority of benign ones. As instances that appear in the real world are naturally connected and can be represented with graphs, graph neural…

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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes from a graph that are significantly different from normal patterns. Most previous studies are model-driven, focusing on enhancing the detection effect by improving the model structure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yitong Hao , Enbo He , Yue Zhang , Guisheng Yin

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) has demonstrated great effectiveness in identifying unusual patterns within graph-structured data. However, while labeled anomalies are often scarce in emerging applications, existing supervised GAD approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Delaram Pirhayati , Arlei Silva

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs presents a significant challenge due to the temporal evolution of graph structures and attributes. The conventional approaches that tackle this problem typically employ an unsupervised learning framework,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jie Liu , Xuequn Shang , Xiaolin Han , Kai Zheng , Hongzhi Yin

Graph autoencoders (Graph-AEs) learn representations of given graphs by aiming to accurately reconstruct them. A notable application of Graph-AEs is graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD), whose objective is to identify graphs with anomalous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Sunwoo Kim , Soo Yong Lee , Fanchen Bu , Shinhwan Kang , Kyungho Kim , Jaemin Yoo , Kijung Shin

A significant number of anomalous nodes in the real world, such as fake news, noncompliant users, malicious transactions, and malicious posts, severely compromises the health of the graph data ecosystem and urgently requires effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiong Zhang , Hong Peng , Changlong Fu , Xin Jin , Yun Yang , Cheng Xie

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a challenging binary classification problem due to its different structural distribution between anomalies and normal nodes -- abnormal nodes are a minority, therefore holding high heterophily and low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yuan Gao , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Zhenguang Liu , Huamin Feng , Yongdong Zhang

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal patterns in networks, but faces significant challenges from label scarcity and extreme class imbalance. While graph contrastive learning offers a promising unsupervised solution, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kamal Berahmand , Saman Forouzandeh , Mehrnoush Mohammadi , Parham Moradi , Mahdi Jalili

Graph anomaly detection has attracted a lot of interest recently. Despite their successes, existing detectors have at least two of the three weaknesses: (a) high computational cost which limits them to small-scale networks only; (b)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zhong Zhuang , Kai Ming Ting , Guansong Pang , Shuaibin Song

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used as the engine for various graph-related tasks, with their effectiveness in analyzing graph-structured data. However, training robust GNNs often demands abundant labeled data, which is a critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Siyue Xie , Da Sun Handason Tam , Wing Cheong Lau

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to identify abnormal nodes that deviate from the majority, has become increasingly important in high-stakes Web domains. However, existing GAD methods follow a "one model per dataset" paradigm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yunhui Liu , Tieke He , Yongchao Liu , Can Yi , Hong Jin , Chuntao Hong

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has become an increasingly important task across various domains. With the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNNs), GAD methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Shouju Wang , Yuchen Song , Sheng'en Li , Dongmian Zou

Graph anomaly detection plays a vital role for identifying abnormal instances in complex networks. Despite advancements of methodology based on deep learning in recent years, existing benchmarking approaches exhibit limitations that hinder…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Jing Gu , Dongmian Zou

Graph-level anomaly detection has become a critical topic in diverse areas, such as financial fraud detection and detecting anomalous activities in social networks. While most research has focused on anomaly detection for visual data such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify uncommon, deviated, or suspicious objects within graph-structured data. Existing methods generally focus on a single graph object type (node, edge, graph, etc.) and often overlook the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yiqing Lin , Jianheng Tang , Chenyi Zi , H. Vicky Zhao , Yuan Yao , Jia Li

In the real world, anomalous entities often add more legitimate connections while hiding direct links with other anomalous entities, leading to heterophilic structures in anomalous networks that most GNN-based techniques fail to address.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zengyi Wo , Wenjun Wang , Minglai Shao , Chang Liu , Yumeng Wang , Yueheng Sun

There have been significant advancements in anomaly detection in an unsupervised manner, where only normal images are available for training. Several recent methods aim to detect anomalies based on a memory, comparing or reconstructing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Joo Chan Lee , Taejune Kim , Eunbyung Park , Simon S. Woo , Jong Hwan Ko

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

Logs play a crucial role in system monitoring and debugging by recording valuable system information, including events and states. Although various methods have been proposed to detect anomalies in log sequences, they often overlook the…

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