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Detecting anomalies in data is a vital task, with numerous high-impact applications in areas such as security, finance, health care, and law enforcement. While numerous techniques have been developed in past years for spotting outliers and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Leman Akoglu , Hanghang Tong , Danai Koutra

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

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to identify unusual graph instances (nodes, edges, subgraphs, or graphs), has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to its significance in a wide range of applications. Deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hezhe Qiao , Hanghang Tong , Bo An , Irwin King , Charu Aggarwal , Guansong Pang

Nowadays, graph-structured data are increasingly used to model complex systems. Meanwhile, detecting anomalies from graph has become a vital research problem of pressing societal concerns. Anomaly detection is an unsupervised learning task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Xuhong Wang , Baihong Jin , Ying Du , Ping Cui , Yupu Yang

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is a technique used to identify abnormal nodes within graphs, finding applications in network security, fraud detection, social media spam detection, and various other domains. A common method for GAD is Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Amit Roy , Juan Shu , Jia Li , Carl Yang , Olivier Elshocht , Jeroen Smeets , Pan Li

In today's world, modern infrastructures are being equipped with information and communication technologies to create large IoT networks. It is essential to monitor these networks to ensure smooth operations by detecting and correcting link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Blaž Bertalanič , Matej Vnučec , Carolina Fortuna

Anomaly detection is widely used to distinguish system anomalies by analyzing the temporal and spatial features of wireless sensor network (WSN) data streams; it is one of critical technique that ensures the reliability of WSNs. Currently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qinghao Zhang , Miao Ye , Hongbing Qiu , Yong Wang , Xiaofang Deng

In general, Graph Neural Networks(GNN) have been using a message passing method to aggregate and summarize information about neighbors to express their information. Nonetheless, previous studies have shown that the performance of graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 M. Park

Detecting anomalies in dynamic graphs is a vital task, with numerous practical applications in areas such as security, finance, and social media. Previous network embedding based methods have been mostly focusing on learning good node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Lei Cai , Zhengzhang Chen , Chen Luo , Jiaping Gui , Jingchao Ni , Ding Li , Haifeng Chen

Google uses continuous streams of data from industry partners in order to deliver accurate results to users. Unexpected drops in traffic can be an indication of an underlying issue and may be an early warning that remedial action may be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-15 Dominique T. Shipmon , Jason M. Gurevitch , Paolo M. Piselli , Stephen T. Edwards

Introducing Internet traffic anomaly detection mechanism based on large deviations results for empirical measures. Using past traffic traces we characterize network traffic during various time-of-day intervals, assuming that it is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-08-27 A. S. Syed Navaz , S. Gopalakrishnan , R. Meena

In this paper we propose a novel approach to identify anomalies in DNS traffic. The traffic time-points data is transformed to a string, which is used by new fast appproximate string matching algorithm to detect anomalies. Our approach is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Roni Mateless , Michael Segal

Recently, there has been a substantial amount of interest in GNN-based anomaly detection. Existing efforts have focused on simultaneously mastering the node representations and the classifier necessary for identifying abnormalities with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Ahmad Hafez

Time series subsequence anomaly detection is an important task in a large variety of real-world applications ranging from health monitoring to AIOps, and is challenging due to the following reasons: 1) how to effectively learn complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Weiqi Chen , Zhiqiang Zhou , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun

Dynamic networks, also called network streams, are an important data representation that applies to many real-world domains. Many sets of network data such as e-mail networks, social networks, or internet traffic networks are best…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-17 Timothy La Fond , Jennifer Neville , Brian Gallagher

Graph-based anomaly detection has been widely used for detecting malicious activities in real-world applications. Existing attempts to address this problem have thus far focused on structural feature engineering or learning in the binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Bo Chen , Jing Zhang , Xiaokang Zhang , Yuxiao Dong , Jian Song , Peng Zhang , Kaibo Xu , Evgeny Kharlamov , Jie Tang

By interpreting a traffic scene as a graph of interacting vehicles, we gain a flexible abstract representation which allows us to apply Graph Neural Network (GNN) models for traffic prediction. These naturally take interaction between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-08 Frederik Diehl , Thomas Brunner , Michael Truong Le , Alois Knoll

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) are widely used in Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) due to their natural compatibility with graph structures, resulting in significant performance improvements. However, most researchers approach GAD as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Shelei Li , Yong Chai Tan , Tai Vincent

Anomaly detection is a critical task in cybersecurity, where identifying insider threats, access violations, and coordinated attacks is essential for ensuring system resilience. Graph-based approaches have become increasingly important for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Laura Jiang , Reza Ryan , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

With a long history of traditional Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) algorithms and recently popular Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), it is still not clear (1) how they perform under a standard comprehensive setting, (2) whether GNNs can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jianheng Tang , Fengrui Hua , Ziqi Gao , Peilin Zhao , Jia Li