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Many well-established anomaly detection methods use the distance of a sample to those in its local neighbourhood: so-called `local outlier methods', such as LOF and DBSCAN. They are popular for their simple principles and strong performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Adam Goodge , Bryan Hooi , See Kiong Ng , Wee Siong Ng

Unsupervised anomaly detection from high dimensional data like mobility networks is a challenging task. Study of different approaches of feature engineering from such high dimensional data have been a focus of research in this field. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-09 Urwa Muaz , Stanislav Sobolevsky

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

Diffusion has shown great success in improving accuracy of unsupervised image retrieval systems by utilizing high-order structures of image manifold. However, existing diffusion methods suffer from three major limitations: 1) they usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Zhiyong Dou , Haotian Cui , Lin Zhang , Bo Wang

Deep anomaly detection models using a supervised mode of learning usually work under a closed set assumption and suffer from overfitting to previously seen rare anomalies at training, which hinders their applicability in a real scenario. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Behzad Bozorgtabar , Dwarikanath Mahapatra , Guillaume Vray , Jean-Philippe Thiran

In recent years, graph anomaly detection has found extensive applications in various domains such as social, financial, and communication networks. However, anomalies in graph-structured data present unique challenges, including label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yuxuan Cao , Jiarong Xu , Chen Zhao , Jiaan Wang , Carl Yang , Chunping Wang , Yang Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel self-supervised representation learning by taking advantage of a neighborhood-relational encoding (NRE) among the training data. Conventional unsupervised learning methods only focused on training deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Mohammad Sabokrou , Mohammad Khalooei , Ehsan Adeli

Anomaly detection has been considered under several extents of prior knowledge. Unsupervised methods do not require any labelled data, whereas semi-supervised methods leverage some known anomalies. Inspired by mixture-of-experts models and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 J. -P. Schulze , P. Sperl , K. Böttinger

The task of graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) is to identify anomalous graphs that deviate significantly from the majority of graphs in a dataset. While deep GLAD methods have shown promising performance, their black-box nature limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiuran Zhao , Kai Ming Ting , Xinpeng Li

Social bot detection is pivotal for safeguarding the integrity of online information ecosystems. Although recent graph neural network (GNN) solutions achieve strong results, they remain hindered by two practical challenges: (i) severe class…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Longlong Zhang , Xi Wang , Haotong Du , Yangyi Xu , Zhuo Liu , Yang Liu

Anomaly detection is a fundamental problem in computer vision area with many real-world applications. Given a wide range of images belonging to the normal class, emerging from some distribution, the objective of this task is to construct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chengwei Chen , Pan Chen , Haichuan Song , Yiqing Tao , Yuan Xie , Shouhong Ding , Lizhuang Ma

Uncovering anomalies in attributed networks has recently gained popularity due to its importance in unveiling outliers and flagging adversarial behavior in a gamut of data and network science applications including {the Internet of Things…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Costas Mavromatis , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is an emerging paradigm that exploits supervisory signals generated from the data itself, and many recent studies have leveraged SSL to conduct graph anomaly detection. However, we empirically found that three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhong Li , Yuhang Wang , Matthijs van Leeuwen

We develop graph-based methods for semi-supervised learning based on label propagation on a data similarity graph. When data is abundant or arrive in a stream, the problems of computation and data storage arise for any graph-based method.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Michal Valko

Graph attention networks (GATs) are powerful tools for analyzing graph data from various real-world scenarios. To learn representations for downstream tasks, GATs generally attend to all neighbors of the central node when aggregating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Tiantian He , Haicang Zhou , Yew-Soon Ong , Gao Cong

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in node classification tasks. However, existing GNNs naturally bias towards the majority classes with more labelled data and ignore those minority classes with relatively few labelled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Mengting Zhou , Zhiguo Gong

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a powerful tool for graph representation learning. Due to the recursive neighborhood aggregations employed by GCNs, efficient training methods suffer from a lack of theoretical guarantees or are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Molly Noel , Gabriel Mancino-Ball , Yangyang Xu

We propose an adaptive node feature selection approach for graph neural networks (GNNs) that identifies and removes unnecessary features during training. The ability to measure how features contribute to model output is key for interpreting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Ali Azizpour , Madeline Navarro , Santiago Segarra

Anomaly detection is being regarded as an unsupervised learning task as anomalies stem from adversarial or unlikely events with unknown distributions. However, the predictive performance of purely unsupervised anomaly detection often fails…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Nico Goernitz , Marius Micha Kloft , Konrad Rieck , Ulf Brefeld

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely applied for graph anomaly detection. As one of the key components for GNN design is to select a tailored spectral filter, we take the first step towards analyzing anomalies via the lens of the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Jianheng Tang , Jiajin Li , Ziqi Gao , Jia Li