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Financial frauds cause billions of losses annually and yet it lacks efficient approaches in detecting frauds considering user profile and their behaviors simultaneously in social network . A social network forms a graph structure whilst…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Hanyi Hu , Long Zhang , Shuan Li , Zhi Liu , Yao Yang , Chongning Na

The early research report explores the possibility of using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) for anomaly detection in internet traffic data enriched with information. While recent studies have made significant progress in using GNNs for anomaly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Anasuya Chattopadhyay , Daniel Reti , Hans D. Schotten

Anomaly detection is widely used to distinguish system anomalies by analyzing the temporal and spatial features of wireless sensor network (WSN) data streams; it is one of critical technique that ensures the reliability of WSNs. Currently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Qinghao Zhang , Miao Ye , Hongbing Qiu , Yong Wang , Xiaofang Deng

Recently, there has been a substantial amount of interest in GNN-based anomaly detection. Existing efforts have focused on simultaneously mastering the node representations and the classifier necessary for identifying abnormalities with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Ahmad Hafez

Network anomaly detection aims to find network elements (e.g., nodes, edges, subgraphs) with significantly different behaviors from the vast majority. It has a profound impact in a variety of applications ranging from finance, healthcare to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Kaize Ding , Qinghai Zhou , Hanghang Tong , Huan Liu

Fake news on social media is increasingly regarded as one of the most concerning issues. Low cost, simple accessibility via social platforms, and a plethora of low-budget online news sources are some of the factors that contribute to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Fahim Belal Mahmud , Mahi Md. Sadek Rayhan , Mahdi Hasan Shuvo , Islam Sadia , Md. Kishor Morol

This paper studies the problem of detecting anomalous graphs using a machine learning model trained on only normal graphs, which has many applications in molecule, biology, and social network data analysis. We present a self-discriminative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jinyu Cai , Yunhe Zhang , Jicong Fan

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

This survey paper presents a comprehensive and conceptual overview of anomaly detection using dynamic graphs. We focus on existing graph-based anomaly detection (AD) techniques and their applications to dynamic networks. The contributions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle

This paper focuses on the detection of potentially dangerous tendencies of social media users in an innovative multimodal way. We integrate Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) together. Firstly, we apply NLP…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cuiqianhe Du , Chia-En Chiang , Tianyi Huang , Zikun Cui

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely applied for graph anomaly detection. As one of the key components for GNN design is to select a tailored spectral filter, we take the first step towards analyzing anomalies via the lens of the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Jianheng Tang , Jiajin Li , Ziqi Gao , Jia Li

Anomaly event detection is crucial for critical infrastructure security(transportation system, social-ecological sector, insurance service, government sector etc.) due to its ability to reveal and address the potential cyber-threats in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yipeng Ji , Jingyi Wang , Shaoning Li , Yangyang Li , Shenwen Lin , Xiong Li

Graph-level anomaly detection has become a critical topic in diverse areas, such as financial fraud detection and detecting anomalous activities in social networks. While most research has focused on anomaly detection for visual data such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Chen Qiu , Marius Kloft , Stephan Mandt , Maja Rudolph

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify irregular patterns in graph-structured data. Most unsupervised GNN-based methods rely on the homophily assumption that connected nodes share similar attributes. However, real-world graphs often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zehao Wang , Lanjun Wang

Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

The study of networks has emerged in diverse disciplines as a means of analyzing complex relationship data. Beyond graph analysis tasks like graph query processing, link analysis, influence propagation, there has recently been some work in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Supriya Pandhre , Manish Gupta , Vineeth N Balasubramanian

Anomaly detection is a critical challenge across various research domains, aiming to identify instances that deviate from normal data distributions. This paper explores the application of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in fraud…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Mengran Zhu , Yulu Gong , Yafei Xiang , Hanyi Yu , Shuning Huo

Anomaly analytics is a popular and vital task in various research contexts, which has been studied for several decades. At the same time, deep learning has shown its capacity in solving many graph-based tasks like, node classification, link…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Jing Ren , Feng Xia , Azadeh Noori Hoshyar , Charu C. Aggarwal

Unsupervised graph anomaly detection aims at identifying rare patterns that deviate from the majority in a graph without the aid of labels, which is important for a variety of real-world applications. Recent advances have utilized Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yuanchen Bei , Sheng Zhou , Jinke Shi , Yao Ma , Haishuai Wang , Jiajun Bu

As the availability of financial services online continues to grow, the incidence of fraud has surged correspondingly. Fraudsters continually seek new and innovative ways to circumvent the detection algorithms in place. Traditionally, fraud…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Prashank Kadam