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Anomaly detection in graph-structured data is an inherently challenging problem, as it requires the identification of rare nodes that deviate from the majority in both their structural and behavioral characteristics. Existing methods, such…

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Anomaly detection on dynamic graphs refers to detecting entities whose behaviors obviously deviate from the norms observed within graphs and their temporal information. This field has drawn increasing attention due to its application in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shiqi Lou , Qingyue Zhang , Shujie Yang , Yuyang Tian , Zhaoxuan Tan , Minnan Luo

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task in graph-based machine learning and has been widely applied in many real-world applications. The primary goal of GAD is to capture anomalous nodes from graph datasets, which evidently deviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jingcan Duan , Siwei Wang , Pei Zhang , En Zhu , Jingtao Hu , Hu Jin , Yue Liu , Zhibin Dong

Given a complex graph database of node- and edge-attributed multi-graphs as well as associated metadata for each graph, how can we spot the anomalous instances? Many real-world problems can be cast as graph inference tasks where the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Lingxiao Zhao , Pierre Jinghong Liang , Leman Akoglu

A graph-based sampling and consensus (GraphSAC) approach is introduced to effectively detect anomalous nodes in large-scale graphs. Existing approaches rely on connectivity and attributes of all nodes to assign an anomaly score per node.…

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

A wide variety of application domains are concerned with data consisting of entities and their relationships or connections, formally represented as graphs. Within these diverse application areas, a common problem of interest is the…

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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a critical task in graph machine learning, with the primary objective of identifying anomalous nodes that deviate significantly from the majority. This task is widely applied in various real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xiang Li , Jianpeng Qi , Zhongying Zhao , Guanjie Zheng , Lei Cao , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

Anomaly detection is fundamental yet, challenging problem with practical applications in industry. The current approaches neglect the higher-order dependencies within the networks of interconnected sensors in the high-dimensional time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Sakhinana Sagar Srinivas , Rajat Kumar Sarkar , Venkataramana Runkana

Graph embedding techniques have been increasingly deployed in a multitude of different applications that involve learning on non-Euclidean data. However, existing graph embedding models either fail to incorporate node attribute information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenhui Deng , Zhiqiang Zhao , Yongyu Wang , Zhiru Zhang , Zhuo Feng

Given a dynamic graph stream, how can we detect the sudden appearance of anomalous patterns, such as link spam, follower boosting, or denial of service attacks? Additionally, can we categorize the types of anomalies that occur in practice,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Minji Yoon , Bryan Hooi , Kijung Shin , Christos Faloutsos

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful category of learning architecture for handling graph-structured data. However, existing GNNs typically ignore crucial structural characteristics in node-induced subgraphs, which thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Kaixuan Chen , Shunyu Liu , Tongtian Zhu , Tongya Zheng , Haofei Zhang , Zunlei Feng , Jingwen Ye , Mingli Song

Graph-level anomaly detection aims to identify anomalous graphs or subgraphs within graph datasets, playing a vital role in various fields such as fraud detection, review classification, and biochemistry. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Liting Li , Yumeng Wang , Yueheng Sun

Deep learning methods for graphs achieve remarkable performance on many node-level and graph-level prediction tasks. However, despite the proliferation of the methods and their success, prevailing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) neglect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Emily Alsentzer , Samuel G. Finlayson , Michelle M. Li , Marinka Zitnik

Graph anomaly detection has long been an important problem in various domains pertaining to information security such as financial fraud, social spam and network intrusion. The majority of existing methods are performed in an unsupervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xiongxiao Xu , Kaize Ding , Canyu Chen , Kai Shu

Community detection is a fundamental task in graph analysis, with methods often relying on fitting models like the Stochastic Block Model (SBM) to observed networks. While many algorithms can accurately estimate SBM parameters when the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-05 Leonardo Martins Bianco , Christine Keribin , Zacharie Naulet

Anomaly detection is critical for finding suspicious behavior in innumerable systems. We need to detect anomalies in real-time, i.e. determine if an incoming entity is anomalous or not, as soon as we receive it, to minimize the effects of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Siddharth Bhatia

Real-world graphs are complex to process for performing effective analysis, such as anomaly detection. However, recently, there have been several research efforts addressing the issues surrounding graph-based anomaly detection. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Prabin B Lamichhane , William Eberle

Anomaly detection from graph data is an important data mining task in many applications such as social networks, finance, and e-commerce. Existing efforts in graph anomaly detection typically only consider the information in a single scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yu Zheng , Ming Jin , Yixin Liu , Lianhua Chi , Khoa T. Phan , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

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

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.…

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