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Graph-based fraud detection has heretofore received considerable attention. Owning to the great success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), many approaches adopting GNNs for fraud detection has been gaining momentum. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Zhixun Li , Dingshuo Chen , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is crucial for identifying abnormal entities within networks, garnering significant attention across various fields. Traditional unsupervised methods, which decode encoded latent representations of unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jinghan Li , Yuan Gao , Jinda Lu , Junfeng Fang , Congcong Wen , Hui Lin , Xiang Wang

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable efficacy in tackling a wide array of graph-related tasks across diverse domains. However, a significant challenge lies in their propensity to generate biased predictions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Abdullah Alchihabi , Yuhong Guo

This work considers a practical semi-supervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) scenario, where part of the nodes in a graph are known to be normal, contrasting to the extensively explored unsupervised setting with a fully unlabeled graph. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Hezhe Qiao , Qingsong Wen , Xiaoli Li , Ee-Peng Lim , Guansong Pang

The Fair Graph Anomaly Detection (FairGAD) problem aims to accurately detect anomalous nodes in an input graph while avoiding biased predictions against individuals from sensitive subgroups. However, the current literature does not…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Neng Kai Nigel Neo , Yeon-Chang Lee , Yiqiao Jin , Sang-Wook Kim , Srijan Kumar

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

With the rapid growth of graph-structured data in critical domains, unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has become a pivotal task. UGAD seeks to identify entire graphs that deviate from normal behavioral patterns. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Qingfeng Chen , Haojin Zeng , Jingyi Jie , Shichao Zhang , Debo Cheng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown great power in modeling graph structured data. However, similar to other machine learning models, GNNs may make predictions biased on protected sensitive attributes, e.g., skin color and gender.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Enyan Dai , Suhang Wang

Despite remarkable success in diverse web-based applications, Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) inherit and further exacerbate historical discrimination and social stereotypes, which critically hinder their deployments in high-stake domains such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Ying Song , Balaji Palanisamy

Graph anomaly detection on attributed networks has become a prevalent research topic due to its broad applications in many influential domains. In real-world scenarios, nodes and edges in attributed networks usually display distinct…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Shujie Yang , Binchi Zhang , Shangbin Feng , Zhaoxuan Tan , Qinghua Zheng , Jun Zhou , Minnan Luo

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is crucial in applications like fraud detection and cybersecurity. Despite recent advancements using graph neural networks (GNNs), two major challenges persist. At the model level, most methods adopt a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Chunyu Wei , Siyuan He , Yu Wang , Yueguo Chen , Yunhai Wang , Bing Bai , Yidong Zhang , Yong Xie , Shunming Zhang , Fei Wang

Graph-level anomaly detection aims to identify anomalous graphs or subgraphs within graph datasets, playing a vital role in various fields such as fraud detection, review classification, and biochemistry. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Liting Li , Yumeng Wang , Yueheng Sun

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.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiazhen Chen , Sichao Fu , Zheng Ma , Mingbin Feng , Tony S. Wirjanto , Qinmu Peng

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify unusual patterns in graph-based data, with wide applications in fields such as web security and financial fraud detection. Existing methods typically rely on contrastive learning, assuming that a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Di Jin , Jingyi Cao , Xiaobao Wang , Bingdao Feng , Dongxiao He , Longbiao Wang , Jianwu Dang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Shan Xue , Jian Yang , Chuan Zhou , Quan Z. Sheng , Hui Xiong , Leman Akoglu

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is widely applied in many areas, such as financial fraud detection and social spammer detection. Anomalous nodes in the graph not only impact their own communities but also create a ripple effect on neighbors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhu Wang , Junnan Dong , Shuang Zhou , Chang Yang , Shengjie Zhao , Xiao Huang

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has attracted increasing attention in machine learning and data mining. Recent works have mainly focused on how to capture richer information to improve the quality of node embeddings for GAD. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingcan Duan , Pei Zhang , Siwei Wang , Jingtao Hu , Hu Jin , Jiaxin Zhang , Haifang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Graph anomaly detection in this paper aims to distinguish abnormal nodes that behave differently from the benign ones accounting for the majority of graph-structured instances. Receiving increasing attention from both academia and industry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Fanzhen Liu , Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Amin Beheshti , Chuan Zhou , Hao Peng , Quan Z. Sheng , Charu C. Aggarwal

This survey paper presents a comprehensive and conceptual overview of anomaly detection using dynamic graphs. We focus on existing graph-based anomaly detection (AD) techniques and their applications to dynamic networks. The contributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle