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Provenance graph-based intrusion detection systems are deployed on hosts to defend against increasingly severe Advanced Persistent Threat. Using Graph Neural Networks to detect these threats has become a research focus and has demonstrated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Weiheng Wu , Wei Qiao , Teng Li , Yebo Feng , Zhuo Ma , Jianfeng Ma , Yang Liu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful graph-based deep-learning models that have gained significant attention and demonstrated remarkable performance in various domains, including natural language processing, drug discovery, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jaykumar Kakkad , Jaspal Jannu , Kartik Sharma , Charu Aggarwal , Sourav Medya

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become an effective tool for malware detection by capturing program execution through graph-structured representations. However, important challenges remain regarding scalability, interpretability, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Hossein Shokouhinejad , Griffin Higgins , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Ali A. Ghorbani

Uncovering rationales behind predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs) has received increasing attention over recent years. Instance-level GNN explanation aims to discover critical input elements, like nodes or edges, that the target GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tianxiang Zhao , Dongsheng Luo , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly adopted across domains such as molecular biology and social network analysis, yet their black-box nature hinders interpretability and trust. This is especially problematic in high-stakes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Matteo De Sanctis , Riccardo De Sanctis , Stefano Faralli , Paola Velardi , Bardh Prenkaj

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained popularity in numerous domains, yet they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks that can compromise their performance and ethical application. The detection of these attacks is crucial for maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jane Downer , Ren Wang , Binghui Wang

Automated detection of vulnerabilities in source code is an essential cybersecurity challenge, underpinning trust in digital systems and services. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a promising approach as they can learn…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 David Egea , Barproda Halder , Sanghamitra Dutta

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools in representation learning for graphs. However, recent studies show that GNNs are vulnerable to carefully-crafted perturbations, called adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks can easily fool…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Wei Jin , Yao Ma , Xiaorui Liu , Xianfeng Tang , Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang

Control Flow Graphs (CFGs) are critical for analyzing program execution and characterizing malware behavior. With the growing adoption of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), CFG-based representations have proven highly effective for malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Hossein Shokouhinejad , Griffin Higgins , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Hesamodin Mohammadian , Ali A. Ghorbani

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are increasingly being employed in critical real-world applications, several methods have been proposed in recent literature to explain the predictions of these models. However, there has been little to no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Chirag Agarwal , Marinka Zitnik , Himabindu Lakkaraju

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been utilized to create multi-layer graph models for a number of cybersecurity applications from fraud detection to software vulnerability analysis. Unfortunately, like traditional neural networks, GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Haoyu He , Yuede Ji , H. Howie Huang

Malware detection in modern computing environments demands models that are not only accurate but also interpretable and robust to evasive techniques. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown promise in this domain by modeling rich structural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Hossein Shokouhinejad , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Griffin Higgins , Ali A Ghorbani

Predictions made by graph neural networks (GNNs) usually lack interpretability due to their complex computational behavior and the abstract nature of graphs. In an attempt to tackle this, many GNN explanation methods have emerged. Their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Zhong Li , Simon Geisler , Yuhang Wang , Stephan Günnemann , Matthijs van Leeuwen

As Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely adopted in digital pathology, there is increasing attention to developing explanation models (explainers) of GNNs for improved transparency in clinical decisions. Existing explainers discover an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Junchi Yu , Tingyang Xu , Ran He

Protecting sensitive program content is a critical issue in various situations, ranging from legitimate use cases to unethical contexts. Obfuscation is one of the most used techniques to ensure such protection. Consequently, attackers must…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Roxane Cohen , Robin David , Florian Yger , Fabrice Rossi

Control Flow Graphs and Function Call Graphs have become pivotal in providing a detailed understanding of program execution and effectively characterizing the behavior of malware. These graph-based representations, when combined with Graph…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Hesamodin Mohammadian , Griffin Higgins , Samuel Ansong , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Ali A. Ghorbani

Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based vulnerability detection systems have achieved remarkable success. However, the lack of explainability poses a critical challenge to deploy black-box models in security-related domains. For this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Sicong Cao , Xiaobing Sun , Xiaoxue Wu , David Lo , Lili Bo , Bin Li , Wei Liu

Uncovering rationales behind predictions of graph neural networks (GNNs) has received increasing attention over recent years. Instance-level GNN explanation aims to discover critical input elements, like nodes or edges, that the target GNN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Tianxiang Zhao , Dongsheng Luo , Xiang Zhang , Suhang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful representation learning tools for capturing complex dependencies within diverse graph-structured data. Despite their success in a wide range of graph mining tasks, GNNs have raised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Wenzhao Jiang , Hao Liu , Hui Xiong

Graph-structured data are pervasive in the real-world such as social networks, molecular graphs and transaction networks. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in representation learning on graphs, facilitating various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Zhimeng Guo , Teng Xiao , Zongyu Wu , Charu Aggarwal , Hui Liu , Suhang Wang