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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful and flexible neural networks that use the naturally sparse connectivity information of the data. GNNs represent this connectivity as sparse matrices, which have lower arithmetic intensity and thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Alok Tripathy , Katherine Yelick , Aydin Buluc

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are vulnerable to perturbations of the graph structure that are either random, or, adversarially designed. The perturbed links modify the graph neighborhoods, which critically affects the performance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

The graph neural network (GNN) models have presented impressive achievements in numerous machine learning tasks. However, many existing GNN models are shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which creates a stringent need to build…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Zepeng Zhang , Songtao Lu , Zengfeng Huang , Ziping Zhao

To improve the robustness of graph neural networks (GNN), graph structure learning (GSL) has attracted great interest due to the pervasiveness of noise in graph data. Many approaches have been proposed for GSL to jointly learn a clean graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Shaogao Lv , Gang Wen , Shiyu Liu , Linsen Wei , Ming Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel in various graph learning tasks but face computational challenges when applied to large-scale graphs. A promising solution is to remove non-essential edges to reduce the computational overheads in GNN.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Guibin Zhang , Yanwei Yue , Kun Wang , Junfeng Fang , Yongduo Sui , Kai Wang , Yuxuan Liang , Dawei Cheng , Shirui Pan , Tianlong Chen

In this work we propose a random graph model that can produce graphs at different levels of sparsity. We analyze how sparsity affects the graph spectra, and thus the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs) in node classification on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Luana Ruiz , Ningyuan Huang , Soledad Villar

Despite impressive capability in learning over graph-structured data, graph neural networks (GNN) suffer from adversarial topology perturbation in both training and inference phases. While adversarial training has demonstrated remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Ganlin Liu , Ziling Liang , Xiaowei Huang , Xinping Yi , Shi Jin

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the dominant approach for machine learning on graph-structured data. However, concerns have arisen regarding the vulnerability of GNNs to small adversarial perturbations. Existing defense methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sofiane Ennadir , Yassine Abbahaddou , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Henrik Boström

Sparse models require less memory for storage and enable a faster inference by reducing the necessary number of FLOPs. This is relevant both for time-critical and on-device computations using neural networks. The stabilized lottery ticket…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Christopher Brix , Parnia Bahar , Hermann Ney

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) obtain tremendous success in modeling relational data. Still, they are prone to adversarial attacks, which are massive threats to applying GNNs to risk-sensitive domains. Existing defensive methods neither…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Beini Xie , Heng Chang , Ziwei Zhang , Xin Wang , Daixin Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Rex Ying , Wenwu Zhu

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful approaches for learning on Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs), a comprehensive understanding of their robustness remains elusive. Current evaluations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Runlin Lei , Lu Yi , Mingguo He , Pengyu Qiu , Zhewei Wei , Yongchao Liu , Chuntao Hong

Recent works on Lottery Ticket Hypothesis have shown that pre-trained language models (PLMs) contain smaller matching subnetworks(winning tickets) which are capable of reaching accuracy comparable to the original models. However, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Rui Zheng , Rong Bao , Yuhao Zhou , Di Liang , Sirui Wang , Wei Wu , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in safety-critical applications, such as financial and medical networks, in which compromised predictions may cause catastrophic consequences. While existing research on GNN robustness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Wencheng Zou , Nan Wu

Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (LTH) suggests that a dense neural network contains a sparse sub-network that can match the performance of the original dense network when trained in isolation from scratch. Most works retrain the sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ajay Kumar Jaiswal , Haoyu Ma , Tianlong Chen , Ying Ding , Zhangyang Wang

The Strong Lottery Ticket Hypothesis (SLTH) demonstrates the existence of high-performing subnetworks within a randomly initialized model, discoverable through pruning a convolutional neural network (CNN) without any weight training. A…

Although sparse neural networks have been studied extensively, the focus has been primarily on accuracy. In this work, we focus instead on network structure, and analyze three popular algorithms. We first measure performance when structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Maxwell Van Gelder , Mitchell Wortsman , Kiana Ehsani

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used in many applications. However, their robustness against adversarial attacks is criticized. Prior studies show that using unnoticeable modifications on graph topology or nodal features can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Xianfeng Tang , Yandong Li , Yiwei Sun , Huaxiu Yao , Prasenjit Mitra , Suhang Wang

The graph contrastive learning (GCL) framework has gained remarkable achievements in graph representation learning. However, similar to graph neural networks (GNNs), GCL models are susceptible to graph structural attacks. As an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yulin Zhu , Xing Ai , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik , Kai Zhou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown their great ability in modeling graph structured data. However, real-world graphs usually contain structure noises and have limited labeled nodes. The performance of GNNs would drop significantly when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Enyan Dai , Wei Jin , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang

Deep learning models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. This perception led to analyzing deep learning models not only from the perspective of their performance measures but also their robustness to certain types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 M. Ben Amor , J. Stier , M. Granitzer