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Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify irregular patterns in graph data, and recent works have explored zero-shot generalist GAD to enable generalization to unseen graph datasets. However, existing zero-shot GAD methods largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xinyu Zhao , Qingyun Sun , Jiayi Luo , Xingcheng Fu , Jianxin Li

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

Unlike conventional anomaly detection research that focuses on point anomalies, our goal is to detect anomalous collections of individual data points. In particular, we perform group anomaly detection (GAD) with an emphasis on irregular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Raghavendra Chalapathy , Edward Toth , Sanjay Chawla

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

Self-supervised learning on graphs can be bifurcated into contrastive and generative methods. Contrastive methods, also known as graph contrastive learning (GCL), have dominated graph self-supervised learning in the past few years, but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Liang Wang , Xiang Tao , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

It is common practice of the outlier mining community to repurpose classification datasets toward evaluating various detection models. To that end, often a binary classification dataset is used, where samples from one of the classes is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Lingxiao Zhao , Leman Akoglu

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

Human analysts that use anomaly detection systems in practice want to retain the use of simple and explainable global anomaly detectors. In this paper, we propose a novel human-in-the-loop learning algorithm called GLAD (GLocalized Anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Md Rakibul Islam , Shubhomoy Das , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Sriraam Natarajan

Recovering sparse conditional independence graphs from data is a fundamental problem in machine learning with wide applications. A popular formulation of the problem is an $\ell_1$ regularized maximum likelihood estimation. Many convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Harsh Shrivastava , Xinshi Chen , Binghong Chen , Guanghui Lan , Srinvas Aluru , Han Liu , Le Song

Unsupervised anomaly detection (UAD) aims to find anomalous images by optimising a detector using a training set that contains only normal images. UAD approaches can be based on reconstruction methods, self-supervised approaches, and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-23 Yu Tian , Guansong Pang , Yuyuan Liu , Chong Wang , Yuanhong Chen , Fengbei Liu , Rajvinder Singh , Johan W Verjans , Mengyu Wang , Gustavo Carneiro

Semi-supervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) utilizes a small set of labeled normal nodes to identify abnormal nodes from a large set of unlabeled nodes in a graph. Current methods in this line posit that 1) normal nodes share a similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guoguo Ai , Hezhe Qiao , Hui Yan , Guansong Pang

Graph anomaly detection is a popular and vital task in various real-world scenarios, which has been studied for several decades. Recently, many studies extending deep learning-based methods have shown preferable performance on graph anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jing Ren , Mingliang Hou , Zhixuan Liu , Xiaomei Bai

Unsupervised graph-level anomaly detection (UGAD) has attracted increasing interest due to its widespread application. In recent studies, knowledge distillation-based methods have been widely used in unsupervised anomaly detection to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Rui Cao , Shijie Xue , Jindong Li , Qi Wang , Yi Chang

A significant number of anomalous nodes in the real world, such as fake news, noncompliant users, malicious transactions, and malicious posts, severely compromises the health of the graph data ecosystem and urgently requires effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiong Zhang , Hong Peng , Changlong Fu , Xin Jin , Yun Yang , Cheng Xie

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has gained increasing attention in recent years due to its critical application in a wide range of domains, such as social networks, financial risk management, and traffic analysis. Existing GAD methods can be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Jie Liu , Mengting He , Xuequn Shang , Jieming Shi , Bin Cui , Hongzhi Yin

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify uncommon, deviated, or suspicious objects within graph-structured data. Existing methods generally focus on a single graph object type (node, edge, graph, etc.) and often overlook the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yiqing Lin , Jianheng Tang , Chenyi Zi , H. Vicky Zhao , Yuan Yao , Jia Li

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 emerged as a powerful approach for graph-based machine learning tasks. Previous work applied GNNs to image-derived graph representations for various downstream tasks such as classification or anomaly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Dehn Xu , Tim Katzke , Emmanuel Müller

In this work, we propose GLUE (Graph Deviation Network with Local Uncertainty Estimation), building on the recently proposed Graph Deviation Network (GDN). GLUE not only automatically learns complex dependencies between variables and uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Saswati Ray , Sana Lakdawala , Mononito Goswami , Chufan Gao