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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…

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Semi-supervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) has recently received increasing attention, which aims to distinguish anomalous patterns from graphs under the guidance of a moderate amount of labeled data and a large volume of unlabeled data.…

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A multitude of toxic online behaviors, ranging from network attacks to anonymous traffic and spam, have severely disrupted the smooth operation of networks. Due to the inherent sender-receiver nature of network behaviors, graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ziqi Yuan , Haoyi Zhou , Tianyu Chen , Jianxin Li

Anomalies represent rare observations (e.g., data records or events) that deviate significantly from others. Over several decades, research on anomaly mining has received increasing interests due to the implications of these occurrences in…

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In general, anomaly detection is the problem of distinguishing between normal data samples with well defined patterns or signatures and those that do not conform to the expected profiles. Financial transactions, customer reviews, social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Paul Irofti , Andrei Patrascu , Andra Baltoiu

Fair graph partition of social networks is a crucial step toward ensuring fair and non-discriminatory treatments in unsupervised user analysis. Current fair partition methods typically consider node balance, a notion pursuing a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Tingwei Liu , Peizhao Li , Hongfu Liu

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has attracted increasing attention in recent years for identifying malicious samples in a wide range of graph-based applications, such as social media and e-commerce. However, most GAD methods assume identical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Junjun Pan , Yu Zheng , Yue Tan , Yixin Liu

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

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has become an increasingly important task across various domains. With the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNNs), GAD methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Shouju Wang , Yuchen Song , Sheng'en Li , Dongmian Zou

The task of graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) is to identify anomalous graphs that deviate significantly from the majority of graphs in a dataset. While deep GLAD methods have shown promising performance, their black-box nature limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiuran Zhao , Kai Ming Ting , Xinpeng Li

Graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) has already gained significant importance and has become a popular field of study, attracting considerable attention across numerous downstream works. The core focus of this domain is to capture and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zitong Wang , Xuexiong Luo , Enfeng Song , Qiuqing Bai , Fu Lin

With the recent advances in technology, a wide range of systems continue to collect a large amount of data over time and thus generate time series. Time-Series Anomaly Detection (TSAD) is an important task in various time-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Thi Kieu Khanh Ho , Ali Karami , Narges Armanfard

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify anomaly nodes in attributed graphs and plays an important role in real-world applications. However, existing graph anomaly detection methods still face two key challenges: 1) fixed pipelines, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Tairan Huang , Qiang Chen , Yili Wang , Yueyue Ma , Changlong He , Xiu Su , Yi Chen

Unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has attracted increasing interest due to its widespread application. In recent studies, knowledge distillation-based methods have been widely used in unsupervised anomaly detection to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rui Cao , Shijie Xue , Jindong Li , Qi Wang , Yi Chang

Graph anomaly detection has attracted considerable attention from various domain ranging from network security to finance in recent years. Due to the fact that labeling is very costly, existing methods are predominately developed in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Hwan Kim , Junghoon Kim , Byung Suk Lee , Sungsu Lim

Unsupervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) has received increasing attention in recent years, which aims to identify data anomalous patterns utilizing only unlabeled node information from graph-structured data. However, prevailing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Jiazhen Chen , Xiuqin Liang , Sichao Fu , Zheng Ma , Weihua Ou

Nowadays, the analysis of complex phenomena modeled by graphs plays a crucial role in many real-world application domains where decisions can have a strong societal impact. However, numerous studies and papers have recently revealed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Charlotte Laclau , Christine Largeron , Manvi Choudhary

Given a network with attributed edges, how can we identify anomalous behavior? Networks with edge attributes are commonplace in the real world. For example, edges in e-commerce networks often indicate how users rated products and services…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Neil Shah , Alex Beutel , Bryan Hooi , Leman Akoglu , Stephan Gunnemann , Disha Makhija , Mohit Kumar , Christos Faloutsos

Fair graph learning plays a pivotal role in numerous practical applications. Recently, many fair graph learning methods have been proposed; however, their evaluation often relies on poorly constructed semi-synthetic datasets or substandard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Xiaowei Qian , Zhimeng Guo , Jialiang Li , Haitao Mao , Bingheng Li , Suhang Wang , Yao Ma

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications. However, due to the biases in the graph structures, graph neural networks face significant challenges in fairness. Although the original user graph…

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