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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance on graph-structured data. However, recent empirical studies suggest that GNNs are very susceptible to distribution shift. There is still significant ambiguity about why…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Qi Zhu , Yizhu Jiao , Natalia Ponomareva , Jiawei Han , Bryan Perozzi

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

We propose SGS-GNN, a novel supervised graph sparsifier that learns the sampling probability distribution of edges and samples sparse subgraphs of a user-specified size to reduce the computational costs required by GNNs for inference tasks…

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

Recent studies show that Graph Neural Networks(GNNs) are vulnerable and easily fooled by small perturbations, which has raised considerable concerns for adapting GNNs in various safety-critical applications. In this work, we focus on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zhihao Zhu , Chenwang Wu , Min Zhou , Hao Liao , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have enjoyed wide spread applications in graph-structured data. However, existing graph based applications commonly lack annotated data. GNNs are required to learn latent patterns from a limited amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Wenqi Wei , Mu Qiao , Divyesh Jadav

While the advent of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has greatly improved node and graph representation learning in many applications, the neighborhood aggregation scheme exposes additional vulnerabilities to adversaries seeking to extract…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Peiyuan Liao , Han Zhao , Keyulu Xu , Tommi Jaakkola , Geoffrey Gordon , Stefanie Jegelka , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained by the gradient descent method is known to be vulnerable to maliciously perturbed adversarial input, aka. adversarial attack. As one of the countermeasures against adversarial attack, increasing the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Adnan Siraj Rakin , Zhezhi He , Li Yang , Yanzhi Wang , Liqiang Wang , Deliang Fan

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which generalize traditional deep neural networks on graph data, have achieved state-of-the-art performance on several graph analytical tasks. We focus on how trained GNN models could leak information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Wolfgang Nejdl , Megha Khosla

Recent research has revealed that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are susceptible to adversarial attacks targeting the graph structure. A malicious attacker can manipulate a limited number of edges, given the training labels, to impair the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Zihan Liu , Ge Wang , Yun Luo , Stan Z. Li

Recent studies demonstrate that Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to slight but adversarially designed perturbations, known as adversarial examples. To address this issue, robust training methods against adversarial examples have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Jintang Li , Jiaying Peng , Liang Chen , Zibin Zheng , Tingting Liang , Qing Ling

Graph Visualization, also known as Graph Drawing, aims to find geometric embeddings of graphs that optimize certain criteria. Stress is a widely used metric; stress is minimized when every pair of nodes is positioned at their shortest path…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Florian Grötschla , Joël Mathys , Robert Veres , Roger Wattenhofer

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are emerging for machine learning research on graph-structured data. GNNs achieve state-of-the-art performance on many tasks, but they face scalability challenges when it comes to real-world applications that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shichang Zhang , Atefeh Sohrabizadeh , Cheng Wan , Zijie Huang , Ziniu Hu , Yewen Wang , Yingyan , Lin , Jason Cong , Yizhou Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated with graph-structured data for tasks like node classification, a domain traditionally dominated by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). While this integration leverages rich relational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Franziska Boenisch , Jing Xu , Adam Dziedzic

Defending Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) against adversarial attacks requires balancing accuracy and robustness, a trade-off often mishandled by traditional methods like adversarial training that intertwine these conflicting objectives within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Woohyun Lee , Hogun Park

Graph classification is crucial in network analyses. Networks face potential security threats, such as adversarial attacks. Some defense methods may trade off the algorithm complexity for robustness, such as adversarial training, whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Jinyin Chen , Haiyang Xiong , Haibin Zhenga , Dunjie Zhang , Jian Zhang , Mingwei Jia , Yi Liu

Many real-world datasets can be naturally represented as graphs, spanning a wide range of domains. However, the increasing complexity and size of graph datasets present significant challenges for analysis and computation. In response, graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mohammad Hashemi , Shengbo Gong , Juntong Ni , Wenqi Fan , B. Aditya Prakash , Wei Jin

This paper introduces adversarial attacks targeting a Graph Neural Network (GNN) based radio resource management system in point to point (P2P) communications. Our focus lies on perturbing the trained GNN model during the test phase,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-14 Ahmad Ghasemi , Ehsan Zeraatkar , Majid Moradikia , Seyed , Zekavat

Graph neural networks (GNNs) achieve remarkable performance for tasks on graph data. However, recent works show they are extremely vulnerable to adversarial structural perturbations, making their outcomes unreliable. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Ao Zhang , Jinwen Ma

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have gained popularity in numerous domains, yet they are vulnerable to backdoor attacks that can compromise their performance and ethical application. The detection of these attacks is crucial for maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jane Downer , Ren Wang , Binghui Wang