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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have boosted the performance for many graph-related tasks. Despite the great success, recent studies have shown that GNNs are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks, where adversaries can mislead the GNNs'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Wenqi Fan , Wei Jin , Xiaorui Liu , Han Xu , Xianfeng Tang , Suhang Wang , Qing Li , Jiliang Tang , Jianping Wang , Charu Aggarwal

End-to-end training with global optimization have popularized graph neural networks (GNNs) for node classification, yet inadvertently introduced vulnerabilities to adversarial edge-perturbing attacks. Adversaries can exploit the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ao Liu , Wenshan Li , Tao Li , Beibei Li , Guangquan Xu , Pan Zhou , Wengang Ma , Hanyuan Huang

One intriguing property of deep neural networks (DNNs) is their inherent vulnerability to backdoor attacks -- a trojan model responds to trigger-embedded inputs in a highly predictable manner while functioning normally otherwise. Despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Zhaohan Xi , Ren Pang , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

Many works show that node-level predictions of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are unrobust to small, often termed adversarial, changes to the graph structure. However, because manual inspection of a graph is difficult, it is unclear if the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Lukas Gosch , Daniel Sturm , Simon Geisler , Stephan Günnemann

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising results in tasks such as node classification and graph classification. However, recent studies reveal that GNNs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, posing a significant threat to their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Zhiwei Zhang , Minhua Lin , Junjie Xu , Zongyu Wu , Enyan Dai , Suhang Wang

As powerful tools for representation learning on graphs, graph neural networks (GNNs) have played an important role in applications including social networks, recommendation systems, and online web services. However, GNNs have been shown to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Haoran Liu , Bokun Wang , Jianling Wang , Xiangjue Dong , Tianbao Yang , James Caverlee

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have been shown to be vulnerable to small adversarial perturbations, which becomes a severe threat and largely limits their applications in security-critical scenarios. To mitigate such a threat,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Jintang Li , Jie Liao , Ruofan Wu , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng , Jiawang Dan , Changhua Meng , Weiqiang Wang

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are vulnerable to perturbations of the graph structure that are either random, or, adversarially designed. The perturbed links modify the graph neighborhoods, which critically affects the performance of…

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

Graph Transformers (GTs) have demonstrated a strong capability in modeling graph structures by addressing the intrinsic limitations of graph neural networks (GNNs), such as over-smoothing and over-squashing. Recent studies have proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Chaohao Yuan , Kangfei Zhao , Ercan Engin Kuruoglu , Liang Wang , Tingyang Xu , Wenbing Huang , Deli Zhao , Hong Cheng , Yu Rong

Recent studies show that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to adversarial attack, i.e., an imperceptible structure perturbation can fool GNNs to make wrong predictions. Some researches explore specific properties of clean graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Guangqian Yang , Yibing Zhan , Jinlong Li , Baosheng Yu , Liu Liu , Fengxiang He

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across a spectrum of graph-related tasks, however concerns persist regarding their vulnerability to adversarial perturbations. While prevailing defense strategies focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Sofiane Ennadir , Johannes F. Lutzeyer , Michalis Vazirgiannis , El Houcine Bergou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in many graph mining tasks benefitting from the message passing strategy that fuses the local structure and node features for better graph representation learning. Despite the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Shuiqiao Yang , Bao Gia Doan , Paul Montague , Olivier De Vel , Tamas Abraham , Seyit Camtepe , Damith C. Ranasinghe , Salil S. Kanhere

Deep learning models for graphs have achieved strong performance for the task of node classification. Despite their proliferation, currently there is no study of their robustness to adversarial attacks. Yet, in domains where they are likely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-10 Daniel Zügner , Amir Akbarnejad , Stephan Günnemann

In this paper, we investigate the impact of neural networks (NNs) topology on adversarial robustness. Specifically, we study the graph produced when an input traverses all the layers of a NN, and show that such graphs are different for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Morgane Goibert , Thomas Ricatte , Elvis Dohmatob

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

Transformers have attained outstanding performance across various modalities, owing to their simple but powerful scaled-dot-product (SDP) attention mechanisms. Researchers have attempted to migrate Transformers to graph learning, but most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Liheng Ma , Soumyasundar Pal , Yingxue Zhang , Philip H. S. Torr , Mark Coates

Graph Transformer (GT), as a special type of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), utilizes multi-head attention to facilitate high-order message passing. However, this also imposes several limitations in node classification applications: 1) nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Jiajun Zhou , Xuanze Chen , Chenxuan Xie , Yu Shanqing , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

Recent years have witnessed the deployment of adversarial attacks to evaluate the robustness of Neural Networks. Past work in this field has relied on traditional optimization algorithms that ignore the inherent structure of the problem and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Florian Jaeckle , M. Pawan Kumar

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are becoming the de facto method to learn on the graph data and have achieved the state-of-the-art on node and graph classification tasks. However, recent works show GNNs are vulnerable to training-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jiate Li , Meng Pang , Yun Dong , Binghui Wang

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful approaches for learning on Text-Attributed Graphs (TAGs), a comprehensive understanding of their robustness remains elusive. Current evaluations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Runlin Lei , Lu Yi , Mingguo He , Pengyu Qiu , Zhewei Wei , Yongchao Liu , Chuntao Hong