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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks: carefully constructed perturbations to an image can seriously impair classification accuracy, while being imperceptible to humans. While there has been a significant amount…

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Deep Neural Network (DNN) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. As a countermeasure, adversarial training aims to achieve robustness based on the min-max optimization problem and it has shown to be one of the most effective defense…

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Deep neural networks (DNNs) are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. A range of defense methods have been proposed to train adversarially robust DNNs, among which adversarial training has demonstrated promising results. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Hanxun Huang , Yisen Wang , Sarah Monazam Erfani , Quanquan Gu , James Bailey , Xingjun Ma

Deep learning models on graphs have achieved remarkable performance in various graph analysis tasks, e.g., node classification, link prediction, and graph clustering. However, they expose uncertainty and unreliability against the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Liang Chen , Jintang Li , Jiaying Peng , Tao Xie , Zengxu Cao , Kun Xu , Xiangnan He , Zibin Zheng , Bingzhe Wu

Machine Learning (ML) algorithms have become increasingly popular for supporting Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Nevertheless, extensive research has shown their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, which involve subtle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Andrea Venturi , Dario Stabili , Mirco Marchetti

As graph data becomes more ubiquitous, the need for robust inferential graph algorithms to operate in these complex data domains is crucial. In many cases of interest, inference is further complicated by the presence of adversarial data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-08-23 Sheyda Peyman , Minh Tang , Vince Lyzinski

While the advent of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has greatly improved node and graph representation learning in many applications, the neighborhood aggregation scheme exposes additional vulnerabilities to adversaries seeking to extract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Peiyuan Liao , Han Zhao , Keyulu Xu , Tommi Jaakkola , Geoffrey Gordon , Stefanie Jegelka , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are an emerging model for learning graph embeddings and making predictions on graph structured data. However, robustness of graph neural networks is not yet well-understood. In this work, we focus on node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 James Fox , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) have achieved strong performance in many real-world applications, yet targeted backdoor poisoning on heterogeneous graphs remains less studied. We consider backdoor attacks for heterogeneous node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Honglin Gao , Lan Zhao , Junhao Ren , Xiang Li , Gaoxi Xiao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in addressing node classification tasks. However, the effectiveness of traditional GNNs degrades on heterophilic graphs, where connected nodes often belong to different labels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Asela Hevapathige , Asiri Wijesinghe , Ahad N. Zehmakan

Self-supervised learning of graph neural networks (GNN) is in great need because of the widespread label scarcity issue in real-world graph/network data. Graph contrastive learning (GCL), by training GNNs to maximize the correspondence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Susheel Suresh , Pan Li , Cong Hao , Jennifer Neville

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been successfully applied in node classification tasks of network mining. However, most of these models based on neighborhood aggregation are usually shallow and lack the "graph pooling" mechanism,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Fenyu Hu , Yanqiao Zhu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

Heterogeneous graph neural network (HGNN) is a very popular technique for the modeling and analysis of heterogeneous graphs. Most existing HGNN-based approaches are supervised or semi-supervised learning methods requiring graphs to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Cuiying Huo , Dongxiao He , Yawen Li , Di Jin , Jianwu Dang , Weixiong Zhang , Witold Pedrycz , Lingfei Wu

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved beyond human-level accuracy in the image classification task and are widely deployed in real-world environments. However, CNNs show vulnerability to adversarial perturbations that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Desheng Wang , Weidong Jin , Yunpu Wu , Aamir Khan

Large-scale graphs are ubiquitous in real-world scenarios and can be trained by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to generate representation for downstream tasks. Given the abundant information and complex topology of a large-scale graph, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Xin Liu , Xunbin Xiong , Mingyu Yan , Runzhen Xue , Shirui Pan , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained popularity for various graph-related tasks. However, similar to deep neural networks, GNNs are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Empirical studies have shown that adversarially robust…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-09 Tan Sun , Junhong Lin

Graph embedding aims to transfer a graph into vectors to facilitate subsequent graph analytics tasks like link prediction and graph clustering. Most approaches on graph embedding focus on preserving the graph structure or minimizing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Shirui Pan , Ruiqi Hu , Sai-fu Fung , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

In this paper, we study the robustness of graph convolutional networks (GCNs). Previous work have shown that GCNs are vulnerable to adversarial perturbation on adjacency or feature matrices of existing nodes; however, such attacks are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-07 Xiaoyun Wang , Minhao Cheng , Joe Eaton , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Felix Wu

Graph neural networks frequently encounter significant performance degradation when confronted with structural noise or non-homophilous topologies. To address these systemic vulnerabilities, we present AdvSynGNN, a comprehensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Rong Fu , Muge Qi , Chunlei Meng , Shuo Yin , Kun Liu , Zhaolu Kang , Simon Fong

The success of graph neural networks stimulates the prosperity of graph mining and the corresponding downstream tasks including graph anomaly detection (GAD). However, it has been explored that those graph mining methods are vulnerable to…

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