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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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We propose a simple yet effective method for detecting anomalous instances on an attribute graph with label information of a small number of instances. Although with standard anomaly detection methods it is usually assumed that instances…

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Graph anomaly detection aims to identify irregular patterns in graph-structured data. Most unsupervised GNN-based methods rely on the homophily assumption that connected nodes share similar attributes. However, real-world graphs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zehao Wang , Lanjun Wang

A graph-based sampling and consensus (GraphSAC) approach is introduced to effectively detect anomalous nodes in large-scale graphs. Existing approaches rely on connectivity and attributes of all nodes to assign an anomaly score per node.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

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…

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Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are essential tools for detecting network attacks and intrusions. While extensive research has explored the use of supervised Machine Learning for attack detection and characterisation, these…

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Anomaly detection is one of the most active research areas in various critical domains, such as healthcare, fintech, and public security. However, little attention has been paid to scholarly data, i.e., anomaly detection in a citation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Jiaying Liu , Feng Xia , Xu Feng , Jing Ren , Huan Liu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained considerable prominence in semi-supervised learning tasks in processing graph-structured data, primarily owing to their message-passing mechanism, which largely relies on the availability of clean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Shuangjie Li , Baoming Zhang , Jianqing Song , Gaoli Ruan , Chongjun Wang , Junyuan Xie

Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) aims to identify abnormal regions by establishing correspondences between test images and normal templates. Existing methods primarily rely on image reconstruction or template retrieval but face a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mingxiu Cai , Zhe Zhang , Gaochang Wu , Tianyou Chai , Xiatian Zhu

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) in heterogeneous networks presents unique challenges due to node and edge heterogeneity. Existing Graph Neural Network (GNN) methods primarily focus on homogeneous GAD and thus fail to address three key issues:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Xiping Li , Xiangyu Dong , Xingyi Zhang , Kun Xie , Yuanhao Feng , Bo Wang , Guilin Li , Wuxiong Zeng , Xiujun Shu , Sibo Wang

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is a challenging and practical research topic where Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently shown promising results. The effectiveness of existing GNNs in GAD has been mainly attributed to the simultaneous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Jiashun Cheng , Zinan Zheng , Yang Liu , Jianheng Tang , Hongwei Wang , Yu Rong , Jia Li , Fugee Tsung

In recent years, graph anomaly detection has found extensive applications in various domains such as social, financial, and communication networks. However, anomalies in graph-structured data present unique challenges, including label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yuxuan Cao , Jiarong Xu , Chen Zhao , Jiaan Wang , Carl Yang , Chunping Wang , Yang Yang

Anomaly detection suffered from the lack of anomalies due to the diversity of abnormalities and the difficulties of obtaining large-scale anomaly data. Semi-supervised anomaly detection methods are often used to solely leverage normal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jian Shi , Ni Zhang

Uncovering anomalies in attributed networks has recently gained popularity due to its importance in unveiling outliers and flagging adversarial behavior in a gamut of data and network science applications including {the Internet of Things…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Costas Mavromatis , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is critical for identifying abnormal nodes in graph-structured data from diverse domains, including cybersecurity and social networks. The existing GAD methods often focus on the learning paradigms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Yu Zheng , Qingfeng Chen , Chengqi Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Shirui Pan

Graph-based anomaly detection has been widely used for detecting malicious activities in real-world applications. Existing attempts to address this problem have thus far focused on structural feature engineering or learning in the binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Bo Chen , Jing Zhang , Xiaokang Zhang , Yuxiao Dong , Jian Song , Peng Zhang , Kaibo Xu , Evgeny Kharlamov , Jie Tang

Cross-domain graph anomaly detection (CD-GAD) describes the problem of detecting anomalous nodes in an unlabelled target graph using auxiliary, related source graphs with labelled anomalous and normal nodes. Although it presents a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Qizhou Wang , Guansong Pang , Mahsa Salehi , Wray Buntine , Christopher Leckie

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

Given a complex graph database of node- and edge-attributed multi-graphs as well as associated metadata for each graph, how can we spot the anomalous instances? Many real-world problems can be cast as graph inference tasks where the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Lingxiao Zhao , Pierre Jinghong Liang , Leman Akoglu

Does the intrinsic curvature of complex networks hold the key to unveiling graph anomalies that conventional approaches overlook? Reconstruction-based graph anomaly detection (GAD) methods overlook such geometric outliers, focusing only on…

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