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Graph Prompt Learning (GPL) has been introduced as a promising approach that uses prompts to adapt pre-trained GNN models to specific downstream tasks without requiring fine-tuning of the entire model. Despite the advantages of GPL, little…

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Recent years have witnessed the great success of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in handling graph-related tasks. However, MLPs remain the primary workhorse for practical industrial applications due to their desirable inference efficiency and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Lirong Wu , Haitao Lin , Yufei Huang , Tianyu Fan , Stan Z. Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been increasingly deployed in various applications that involve learning on non-Euclidean data. However, recent studies show that GNNs are vulnerable to graph adversarial attacks. Although there are several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Chenhui Deng , Xiuyu Li , Zhuo Feng , Zhiru Zhang

Backdoor defense, which aims to detect or mitigate the effect of malicious triggers introduced by attackers, is becoming increasingly critical for machine learning security and integrity. Fine-tuning based on benign data is a natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mingli Zhu , Shaokui Wei , Li Shen , Yanbo Fan , Baoyuan Wu

Graph distillation has emerged as a solution for reducing large graph datasets to smaller, more manageable, and informative ones. Existing methods primarily target node classification, involve computationally intensive processes, and fail…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Arash Rasti-Meymandi , Ahmad Sajedi , Zhaopan Xu , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are popular for graph machine learning and have shown great results on wide node classification tasks. Yet, they are less popular for practical deployments in the industry owing to their scalability challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Shichang Zhang , Yozen Liu , Yizhou Sun , Neil Shah

While Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) excel in many tasks, the huge training resources they require become an obstacle for practitioners to develop their own models. It has become common to collect data from the Internet or hire a third party…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Pengfei Xia , Hongjing Niu , Ziqiang Li , Bin Li

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for learning from graph-structured data in domains such as social networks, recommender systems, and financial platforms. To comply with privacy regulations like the GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Suhang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are proficient in graph representation learning and achieve promising performance on versatile tasks such as node classification and link prediction. Usually, a comprehensive hyperparameter tuning is essential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Lequan Lin , Dai Shi , Andi Han , Zhiyong Wang , Junbin Gao

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

Generalization of machine learning models can be severely compromised by data poisoning, where adversarial changes are applied to the training data. This vulnerability has led to interest in certifying (i.e., proving) that such changes up…

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Text-to-image diffusion models achieve high-fidelity image generation from natural language prompts. ControlNets extend these models by enabling conditioning on structural inputs (e.g., edge maps, depth, pose), providing fine-grained…

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Federated Graph Neural Network (FedGNN) integrate federated learning (FL) with graph neural networks (GNNs) to enable privacy-preserving training on distributed graph data. Vertical Federated Graph Neural Network (VFGNN), a key branch of…

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Pre-trained graph neural networks (GNNs) transfer well, but adapting them to downstream tasks remains challenging due to mismatches between pre-training objectives and task requirements. Graph prompt tuning offers a parameter-efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Long D. Nguyen , Binh P. Nguyen

Knowledge distillation (KD) has shown to be effective to boost the performance of graph neural networks (GNNs), where the typical objective is to distill knowledge from a deeper teacher GNN into a shallower student GNN. However, it is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Kaituo Feng , Yikun Miao , Changsheng Li , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are vulnerable to backdoor attacks which can hide backdoor triggers in DNNs by poisoning training data. A backdoored model behaves normally on clean test images, yet consistently predicts a particular target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shihao Zhao , Xingjun Ma , Xiang Zheng , James Bailey , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Graph neural network (GNN) with a powerful representation capability has been widely applied to various areas, such as biological gene prediction, social recommendation, etc. Recent works have exposed that GNN is vulnerable to the backdoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Haibin Zheng , Haiyang Xiong , Jinyin Chen , Haonan Ma , Guohan Huang

Knowledge distillation (KD) is a vital technique for deploying deep neural networks (DNNs) on resource-constrained devices by transferring knowledge from large teacher models to lightweight student models. While teacher models from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yukun Chen , Boheng Li , Yu Yuan , Leyi Qi , Yiming Li , Tianwei Zhang , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Dataset distillation offers a potential means to enhance data efficiency in deep learning. Recent studies have shown its ability to counteract backdoor risks present in original training samples. In this study, we delve into the theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ming-Yu Chung , Sheng-Yen Chou , Chia-Mu Yu , Pin-Yu Chen , Sy-Yen Kuo , Tsung-Yi Ho

Text-to-image diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI, but their vulnerability to backdoor attacks poses significant security risks. Adversaries can inject imperceptible textual triggers into training data, causing models to…

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