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We analyze the performance of graph neural network (GNN) architectures from the perspective of random graph theory. Our approach promises to complement existing lenses on GNN analysis, such as combinatorial expressive power and worst-case…

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Decentralised learning has recently gained traction as an alternative to federated learning in which both data and coordination are distributed. To preserve the confidentiality of users' data, decentralised learning relies on differential…

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In recent years, recommender systems play a pivotal role in helping users identify the most suitable items that satisfy personal preferences. As user-item interactions can be naturally modelled as graph-structured data, variants of graph…

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Regulatory frameworks such as GDPR increasingly require that ML predictions be accompanied by post-hoc explanations, even when raw data and trained models cannot be released. Differential privacy (DP) is the standard mitigation for the…

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Graph super-resolution, the task of inferring high-resolution (HR) graphs from low-resolution (LR) counterparts, is an underexplored yet crucial research direction that circumvents the need for costly data acquisition. This makes it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Pragya Singh , Islem Rekik

Graph embedding is an effective method to represent graph data in a low dimensional space for graph analytics. Most existing embedding algorithms typically focus on preserving the topological structure or minimizing the reconstruction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Shirui Pan , Ruiqi Hu , Guodong Long , Jing Jiang , Lina Yao , Chengqi Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used in many real applications, and recent studies have revealed their vulnerabilities against topology attacks. To address this issue, existing efforts have mainly been dedicated to improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Senrong Xu , Yuan Yao , Liangyue Li , Wei Yang , Feng Xu , Hanghang Tong

Graph structured data have enabled several successful applications such as recommendation systems and traffic prediction, given the rich node features and edges information. However, these high-dimensional features and high-order adjacency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Fan Wu , Yunhui Long , Ce Zhang , Bo Li

Anonymous social networks present a number of new and challenging problems for existing Social Network Analysis techniques. Traditionally, existing methods for analysing graph structure, such as community detection, required global…

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Unsupervised/self-supervised graph neural networks (GNN) are vulnerable to inherent randomness in the input graph data which greatly affects the performance of the model in downstream tasks. In this paper, we alleviate the interference of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yifei Wang , Yupan Wang , Zeyu Zhang , Song Yang , Kaiqi Zhao , Jiamou Liu

Despite the tremendous success of graph-based learning systems in handling structural data, it has been widely investigated that they are fragile to adversarial attacks on homophilic graph data, where adversaries maliciously modify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yulin Zhu , Yuni Lai , Xing Ai , Wai Lun LO , Gaolei Li , Jianhua Li , Di Tang , Xingxing Zhang , Mengpei Yang , Kai Zhou

Digital presence in the world of online social media entails significant privacy risks. In this work we consider a privacy threat to a social network in which an attacker has access to a subset of random walk-based node similarities, such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Jeremy G. Hoskins , Cameron Musco , Christopher Musco , Charalampos E. Tsourakakis

Over the past few years, graph representation learning (GRL) has been a powerful strategy for analyzing graph-structured data. Recently, GRL methods have shown promising results by adopting self-supervised learning methods developed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Namkyeong Lee , Dongmin Hyun , Junseok Lee , Chanyoung Park

Existing studies show that node representations generated by graph neural networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, such as unnoticeable perturbations of adjacent matrix and node features. Thus, it is requisite to learn robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Jiayan Guo , Shangyang Li , Yue Zhao , Yan Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have brought superb performance to various applications utilizing graph structural data, such as social analysis and fraud detection. The graph links, e.g., social relationships and transaction history, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Ruyi Ding , Shijin Duan , Xiaolin Xu , Yunsi Fei

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a popular tool for learning on graphs, but their widespread use raises privacy concerns as graph data can contain personal or sensitive information. Differentially private GNN models have been…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been increasingly deployed in various applications that involve learning on non-Euclidean data. However, recent studies show that GNNs are vulnerable to graph adversarial attacks. Although there are several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Chenhui Deng , Xiuyu Li , Zhuo Feng , Zhiru Zhang

Perturbations targeting the graph structure have proven to be extremely effective in reducing the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and traditional defenses such as adversarial training do not seem to be able to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Simon Geisler , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training by sharing model updates instead of raw data, aiming to protect user privacy. However, recent studies reveal that these shared updates can inadvertently leak sensitive training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zirui Gong , Leo Yu Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Viet Vo , Tianqing Zhu , Shirui Pan , Cong Wang

This study explores the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) for vulnerability detection in software code, utilizing a real-world dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits. The dataset's structure, based on the number of…

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