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As cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated, reinforcement learning (RL) is emerging as a promising technique to create intelligent and adaptive cyber defense systems. However, most existing autonomous defensive agents have overlooked…

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With the recent advances in technology, a wide range of systems continue to collect a large amount of data over time and thus generate time series. Time-Series Anomaly Detection (TSAD) is an important task in various time-series…

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Dynamic graphs are rich data structures that are used to model complex relationships between entities over time. In particular, anomaly detection in temporal graphs is crucial for many real world applications such as intrusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Shenyang Huang , Samy Coulombe , Yasmeen Hitti , Reihaneh Rabbany , Guillaume Rabusseau

Dynamic community detection has been prospered as a powerful tool for quantifying changes in dynamic brain network connectivity patterns by identifying strongly connected sets of nodes. However, as the network science problems and network…

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As the complexity and destructiveness of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) increase, there is a growing tendency to identify a series of actions undertaken to achieve the attacker's target, called attack investigation. Currently, analysts…

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Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) represent a growing menace to modern digital infrastructure. Unlike traditional cyberattacks, APTs are stealthy, adaptive, and long-lasting, often bypassing signature-based detection systems. This paper…

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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes or substructures whose behavior or attributes deviate significantly from the overall pattern in graph-structured data, with critical applications in financial risk control, social network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxin Yang , Limei Hu , Feng Chen

In this paper, we present CrimeGAT, a novel application of Graph Attention Networks (GATs) for predictive policing in criminal networks. Criminal networks pose unique challenges for predictive analytics due to their complex structure,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Chen Yang

Anomaly detection on attributed graphs plays an essential role in applications such as fraud detection, intrusion monitoring, and misinformation analysis. However, text-attributed graphs (TAGs), in which node information is expressed in…

Addressing the escalating security vulnerabilities in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, this study investigates backdoor attacks targeting the visual pathway. We identify a core obstacle causing the failure of traditional attack…

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Software vulnerability detection is crucial for high-quality software development. Recently, some studies utilizing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to learn the graph representation of code in vulnerability detection tasks have achieved…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xin Peng , Shangwen Wang , Yihao Qin , Bo Lin , Liqian Chen , Xiaoguang Mao

Real-world graphs are dynamic, constantly evolving with new interactions, such as financial transactions in financial networks. Temporal Graph Neural Networks (TGNNs) have been developed to effectively capture the evolving patterns in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Dongjin Lee , Juho Lee , Kijung Shin

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are stealthy attacks that threaten the security and privacy of sensitive information. Interactions of APTs with victim system introduce information flows that are recorded in the system logs. Dynamic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-29 Dinuka Sahabandu , Shana Moothedath , Joey Allen , Linda Bushnell , Wenke Lee , Radha Poovendran

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is crucial for identifying abnormal entities within networks, garnering significant attention across various fields. Traditional unsupervised methods, which decode encoded latent representations of unlabeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Jinghan Li , Yuan Gao , Jinda Lu , Junfeng Fang , Congcong Wen , Hui Lin , Xiang Wang

Automatic generation of medical reports from X-ray images can assist radiologists to perform the time-consuming and yet important reporting task. Yet, achieving clinically accurate generated reports remains challenging. Modeling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Sixing Yan , William K. Cheung , Keith Chiu , Terence M. Tong , Charles K. Cheung , Simon See

Time series subsequence anomaly detection is an important task in a large variety of real-world applications ranging from health monitoring to AIOps, and is challenging due to the following reasons: 1) how to effectively learn complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Weiqi Chen , Zhiqiang Zhou , Qingsong Wen , Liang Sun

Graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) has already gained significant importance and has become a popular field of study, attracting considerable attention across numerous downstream works. The core focus of this domain is to capture and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zitong Wang , Xuexiong Luo , Enfeng Song , Qiuqing Bai , Fu Lin

Dynamic link prediction is important for modeling evolving interactions in complex systems, including social, communication, financial, and transportation networks. Classical temporal graph models capture sequential dependencies, but they…

Attack graphs (AG) are used to assess pathways availed by cyber adversaries to penetrate a network. State-of-the-art approaches for AG generation focus mostly on deriving dependencies between system vulnerabilities based on network scans…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Azqa Nadeem , Sicco Verwer , Shanchieh Jay Yang

Existing deepfake detectors face several challenges in achieving robustness and generalization. One of the primary reasons is their limited ability to extract relevant information from forgery videos, especially in the presence of various…

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