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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are increasingly widely used for community detection in attributed networks. They combine structural topology with node attributes through message passing and pooling. However, their robustness or lack of…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been successfully exploited in graph analysis tasks in many real-world applications. The competition between attack and defense methods also enhances the robustness of GNNs. In this competition, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Jinyin Chen , Dunjie Zhang , Zhaoyan Ming , Kejie Huang , Wenrong Jiang , Chen Cui

We analyze the performance of graph neural network (GNN) architectures from the perspective of random graph theory. Our approach promises to complement existing lenses on GNN analysis, such as combinatorial expressive power and worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Drake Brown , Trevor Garrity , Kaden Parker , Jason Oliphant , Stone Carson , Cole Hanson , Zachary Boyd

Perturbations targeting the graph structure have proven to be extremely effective in reducing the performance of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), and traditional defenses such as adversarial training do not seem to be able to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Simon Geisler , Daniel Zügner , Stephan Günnemann

Humans rely heavily on shape information to recognize objects. Conversely, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are biased more towards texture. This is perhaps the main reason why CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial examples. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Ali Borji

Graph Transformers (GTs) facilitate the comprehension of graph-structured data by calculating the self-attention of node pairs without considering node position information. To address this limitation, we introduce an innovative and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Kushal Bose , Swagatam Das

Adversarial attacks on graphs have posed a major threat to the robustness of graph machine learning (GML) models. Naturally, there is an ever-escalating arms race between attackers and defenders. However, the strategies behind both sides…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Qinkai Zheng , Xu Zou , Yuxiao Dong , Yukuo Cen , Da Yin , Jiarong Xu , Yang Yang , Jie Tang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained popularity for various graph-related tasks. However, similar to deep neural networks, GNNs are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Empirical studies have shown that adversarially robust…

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Despite the tremendous success of graph-based learning systems in handling structural data, it has been widely investigated that they are fragile to adversarial attacks on homophilic graph data, where adversaries maliciously modify the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Yulin Zhu , Yuni Lai , Xing Ai , Wai Lun LO , Gaolei Li , Jianhua Li , Di Tang , Xingxing Zhang , Mengpei Yang , Kai Zhou

Graph neural networks (GNNs) learn node representations by passing and aggregating messages between neighboring nodes. GNNs have been applied successfully in several application domains and achieved promising performance. However, GNNs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zeyu Zhang , Yulong Pei

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown broad applicability in a variety of domains. These domains, e.g., social networks and product recommendations, are fertile ground for malicious users and behavior. In this paper, we show that GNNs are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Ben Finkelshtein , Chaim Baskin , Evgenii Zheltonozhskii , Uri Alon

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, a number of machine learning algorithms, such as graph neural networks have been proposed to facilitate network analysis or graph data mining. Although effective, recent studies show…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Junhao Zhu , Yalu Shan , Jinhuan Wang , Shanqing Yu , Guanrong Chen , Qi Xuan

Recent works demonstrate that GNN models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, which refer to imperceptible perturbation on the graph structure and node features. Among various GNN models, graph contrastive learning (GCL) based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Chanyoung Park

Recent studies have revealed that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. To defend against such attacks, robust graph structure refinement (GSR) methods aim at minimizing the effect of adversarial edges based on node features, graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Kibum Kim , Kijung Shin , Chanyoung Park

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are well-known to be vulnerable to Adversarial Examples (AEs). A large amount of efforts have been spent to launch and heat the arms race between the attackers and defenders. Recently, advanced gradient-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Han Qiu , Yi Zeng , Qinkai Zheng , Tianwei Zhang , Meikang Qiu , Gerard Memmi

Graph Transformers (GTs) have recently emerged as popular alternatives to traditional message-passing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), due to their theoretically superior expressiveness and impressive performance reported on standard node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuankai Luo , Lei Shi , Xiao-Ming Wu

Graph-based models learn rich code graph structural information and present superior performance on various code analysis tasks. However, the robustness of these models against adversarial example attacks in the context of vulnerability…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Avilash Rath , Weiliang Qi , Youpeng Li , Xinda Wang

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel on graph-structured data, their performance is fundamentally limited by the quality of the observed graph, which often contains noise, missing links, or structural properties misaligned with GNNs'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Hao Deng , Bo Liu

As designers of artificial intelligence try to outwit hackers, both sides continue to hone in on AI's inherent vulnerabilities. Designed and trained from certain statistical distributions of data, AI's deep neural networks (DNNs) remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Wenzhao Xiang , Hang Su , Chang Liu , Yandong Guo , Shibao Zheng

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) are generalizations of CNNs to graph-structured data, in which convolution is guided by the graph topology. In many cases where graphs are unavailable, existing methods manually construct graphs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Xiang Gao , Wei Hu , Zongming Guo