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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are de facto solutions to structural data learning. However, it is susceptible to low-quality and unreliable structure, which has been a norm rather than an exception in real-world graphs. Existing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Dongcheng Zou , Hao Peng , Xiang Huang , Renyu Yang , Jianxin Li , Jia Wu , Chunyang Liu , Philip S. Yu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for graph classification and representation learning. However, GNNs tend to suffer from over-smoothing problems and are vulnerable to graph perturbations. To address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Yuzhou Chen , Baris Coskunuzer , Yulia R. Gel

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a dominant paradigm for learning on graph-structured data, thanks to their ability to jointly exploit node features and relational information encoded in the graph topology. This joint modeling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yongyu Wang

Federated graph learning (FGL) has recently emerged as a promising privacy-preserving paradigm that enables distributed graph learning across multiple data owners. A critical privacy concern in federated learning is whether an adversary can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Shuyue Wei , Wantong Chen , Tongyu Wei , Chen Gong , Yongxin Tong , Lizhen Cui

Recent studies show that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack, i.e., an imperceptible structure perturbation can fool GNNs to make wrong predictions. Some researches explore specific properties of clean graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Guangqian Yang , Yibing Zhan , Jinlong Li , Baosheng Yu , Liu Liu , Fengxiang He

The memorization of training data by neural networks raises pressing concerns for privacy and security. Recent work has shown that, under certain conditions, portions of the training set can be reconstructed directly from model parameters.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yehonatan Refael , Guy Smorodinsky , Ofir Lindenbaum , Itay Safran

Benefiting from the message passing mechanism, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successful on flourish tasks over graph data. However, recent studies have shown that attackers can catastrophically degrade the performance of GNNs by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Kuan Li , Yang Liu , Xiang Ao , Jianfeng Chi , Jinghua Feng , Hao Yang , Qing He

Graph-learning algorithms can fail when graph structure is adversarially perturbed, intrinsically noisy or constructed from imperfect observations. Here we show that some nodes bear much greater responsibility than others for allowing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yongyu Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved significant performance in various tasks. However, recent studies have shown that DNNs can be easily fooled by small perturbation on the input, called adversarial attacks. As the extensions of DNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Wei Jin , Yaxin Li , Han Xu , Yiqi Wang , Shuiwang Ji , Charu Aggarwal , Jiliang Tang

Graph data, such as chemical networks and social networks, may be deemed confidential/private because the data owner often spends lots of resources collecting the data or the data contains sensitive information, e.g., social relationships.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Xinlei He , Jinyuan Jia , Michael Backes , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yang Zhang

Graph generative diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for generating complex graph structures, effectively capturing intricate dependencies and relationships within graph data. However, the privacy risks associated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Xiuling Wang , Xin Huang , Guibo Luo , Jianliang Xu

While the advent of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has greatly improved node and graph representation learning in many applications, the neighborhood aggregation scheme exposes additional vulnerabilities to adversaries seeking to extract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Peiyuan Liao , Han Zhao , Keyulu Xu , Tommi Jaakkola , Geoffrey Gordon , Stefanie Jegelka , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been widely adopted in multiple domains. Yet, they are notably vulnerable to adversarial and backdoor attacks. In particular, backdoor attacks based on subgraph insertion have been shown to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Dingqiang Yuan , Xiaohua Xu , Lei Yu , Tongchang Han , Rongchang Li , Meng Han

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promising results on real-life datasets and applications, including healthcare, finance, and education. However, recent studies have shown that GNNs are highly vulnerable to attacks such as membership…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Anmar Hizber , Oliver Sihlovec , Megha Khosla

Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable against perturbations due to lack of robustness and can therefore be easily fooled. Currently, most works on attacking GNNs are mainly using gradient information to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Jintang Li , Tao Xie , Liang Chen , Fenfang Xie , Xiangnan He , Zibin Zheng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly important given their popularity and the diversity of applications. Yet, existing studies of their vulnerability to adversarial attacks rely on relatively small graphs. We address this gap and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Simon Geisler , Tobias Schmidt , Hakan Şirin , Daniel Zügner , Aleksandar Bojchevski , Stephan Günnemann

With the fast adoption of machine learning (ML) techniques, sharing of ML models is becoming popular. However, ML models are vulnerable to privacy attacks that leak information about the training data. In this work, we focus on a particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-06 Xiuling Wang , Wendy Hui Wang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have recently gained much attention for node and graph classification tasks on graph-structured data. However, multiple recent works showed that an attacker can easily make GNNs predict incorrectly via…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Binghui Wang , Jinyuan Jia , Xiaoyu Cao , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Many real-world networks are inherently decentralized. For example, in social networks, each user maintains a local view of a social graph, such as a list of friends and her profile. It is typical to collect these local views of social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Wanyu Lin , Baochun Li , Cong Wang

Despite the recent success of graph neural networks (GNN), common architectures often exhibit significant limitations, including sensitivity to oversmoothing, long-range dependencies, and spurious edges, e.g., as can occur as a result of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Yongyi Yang , Tang Liu , Yangkun Wang , Jinjing Zhou , Quan Gan , Zhewei Wei , Zheng Zhang , Zengfeng Huang , David Wipf