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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful models for anomaly detection in sensor networks, particularly when analyzing multivariate time series. In this work, we introduce BETA, a novel grey-box evasion attack targeting such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Sanju Xaviar , Omid Ardakanian

Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve remarkable performance for tasks on graph data. However, recent works show they are extremely vulnerable to adversarial structural perturbations, making their outcomes unreliable. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Ao Zhang , Jinwen Ma

Recent studies show that Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) are vulnerable and easily fooled by small perturbations, which has raised considerable concerns for adapting GNNs in various safety-critical applications. In this work, we focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zhihao Zhu , Chenwang Wu , Min Zhou , Hao Liao , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks (HGNNs) have expanded graph representation learning to heterogeneous graph fields. Recent studies have demonstrated their superior performance across various applications, including medical analysis and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Runzhen Xue , Mingyu Yan , Dengke Han , Zhimin Tang , Xiaochun Ye , Dongrui Fan

Social networks are considered to be heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) with deep learning technological advances. HGNNs, compared to homogeneous data, absorb various aspects of information about individuals in the training stage.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yuecen Wei , Xingcheng Fu , Qingyun Sun , Hao Peng , Jia Wu , Jinyan Wang , Xianxian Li

Deep learning models for graphs have achieved strong performance for the task of node classification. Despite their proliferation, currently there is no study of their robustness to adversarial attacks. Yet, in domains where they are likely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-10 Daniel Zügner , Amir Akbarnejad , Stephan Günnemann

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable performance on tasks involving relational data. However, small perturbations to the graph structure can significantly alter GNN outputs, raising concerns about their robustness in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Bhavya Kohli , Biplab Sikdar

Detecting vulnerabilities in source code is a critical task for software security assurance. Graph Neural Network (GNN) machine learning can be a promising approach by modeling source code as graphs. Early approaches treated code elements…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yu Luo , Weifeng Xu , Dianxiang Xu

Graph deep learning models, such as graph convolutional networks (GCN) achieve remarkable performance for tasks on graph data. Similar to other types of deep models, graph deep learning models often suffer from adversarial attacks. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-23 Huijun Wu , Chen Wang , Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Andrew Docherty , Kai Lu , Liming Zhu

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

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

One intriguing property of deep neural networks (DNNs) is their inherent vulnerability to backdoor attacks -- a trojan model responds to trigger-embedded inputs in a highly predictable manner while functioning normally otherwise. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zhaohan Xi , Ren Pang , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

With the great popularity of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), their robustness to adversarial topology attacks has received significant attention. Although many attack methods have been proposed, they mainly focus on fixed-budget attacks,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Mengmei Zhang , Xiao Wang , Chuan Shi , Lingjuan Lyu , Tianchi Yang , Junping Du

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have shown their competence in handling spatial-temporal event-based data with low energy consumption. Similar to conventional artificial neural networks (ANNs), SNNs are also vulnerable to gradient-based…

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The sharing of external data has become a strong demand of financial institutions, but the privacy issue has led to the difficulty of interconnecting different platforms and the low degree of data openness. To effectively solve the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Zhizhong Tan , Jiexin Zheng , Kevin Qi Zhang , Wenyong Wang

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

Graph edge perturbations are dedicated to damaging the prediction of graph neural networks by modifying the graph structure. Previous gray-box attackers employ gradients from the surrogate model to locate the vulnerable edges to perturb the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Zihan Liu , Yun Luo , Lirong Wu , Siyuan Li , Zicheng Liu , Stan Z. Li

Graph neural network (GNN), the mainstream method to learn on graph data, is vulnerable to graph evasion attacks, where an attacker slightly perturbing the graph structure can fool trained GNN models. Existing work has at least one of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Binghui Wang , Tianxiang Zhou , Minhua Lin , Pan Zhou , Ang Li , Meng Pang , Hai Li , Yiran Chen

Recent studies have shown that attackers can catastrophically reduce the performance of GNNs by maliciously modifying the graph structure or node features on the graph. Adversarial training, which has been shown to be one of the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Xiaobing Pei , Haoran Yang , Gang Shen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) and heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) are prominent techniques for homogeneous and heterogeneous graph representation learning, yet their performance in an end-to-end supervised framework greatly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Xingtong Yu , Yuan Fang , Zemin Liu , Xinming Zhang