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Recently, graph anomaly detection on attributed networks has attracted growing attention in data mining and machine learning communities. Apart from attribute anomalies, graph anomaly detection also aims at suspicious topological-abnormal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Jingcan Duan , Bin Xiao , Siwei Wang , Haifang Zhou , Xinwang Liu

Anomalies represent rare observations (e.g., data records or events) that deviate significantly from others. Over several decades, research on anomaly mining has received increasing interests due to the implications of these occurrences in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Shan Xue , Jian Yang , Chuan Zhou , Quan Z. Sheng , Hui Xiong , Leman Akoglu

Social networks crawling is in the focus of active research the last years. One of the challenging task is to collect target nodes in an initially unknown graph given a budget of crawling steps. Predicting a node property based on its…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Kirill Lukyanov , Mikhail Drobyshevskiy , Danil Shaikhelislamov , Denis Turdakov

We propose a simple yet effective method for detecting anomalous instances on an attribute graph with label information of a small number of instances. Although with standard anomaly detection methods it is usually assumed that instances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-28 Atsutoshi Kumagai , Tomoharu Iwata , Yasuhiro Fujiwara

Community detection is a central problem in graph analysis, with applications ranging from network science to graph signal processing. In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as effective tools for learning…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Roberto Cavoretto , Alessandra De Rossi , Enrico Montini

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are a popular technique for modelling graph-structured data and computing node-level representations via aggregation of information from the neighborhood of each node. However, this aggregation implies an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ameya Daigavane , Gagan Madan , Aditya Sinha , Abhradeep Guha Thakurta , Gaurav Aggarwal , Prateek Jain

Anomaly detection has become an indispensable tool for modern society, applied in a wide range of applications, from detecting fraudulent transactions to malignant brain tumours. Over time, many anomaly detection techniques have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Mikael Sabuhi , Ming Zhou , Cor-Paul Bezemer , Petr Musilek

Given a network with attributed edges, how can we identify anomalous behavior? Networks with edge attributes are commonplace in the real world. For example, edges in e-commerce networks often indicate how users rated products and services…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Neil Shah , Alex Beutel , Bryan Hooi , Leman Akoglu , Stephan Gunnemann , Disha Makhija , Mohit Kumar , Christos Faloutsos

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a critical task in graph machine learning, with the primary objective of identifying anomalous nodes that deviate significantly from the majority. This task is widely applied in various real-world scenarios,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Xiang Li , Jianpeng Qi , Zhongying Zhao , Guanjie Zheng , Lei Cao , Junyu Dong , Yanwei Yu

Outliers are samples that are generated by different mechanisms from other normal data samples. Graphs, in particular social network graphs, may contain nodes and edges that are made by scammers, malicious programs or mistakenly by normal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Honglei Zhang , Serkan Kiranyaz , Moncef Gabbouj

Traditionally, community detection in graphs can be solved using spectral methods or posterior inference under probabilistic graphical models. Focusing on random graph families such as the stochastic block model, recent research has unified…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-11 Zhengdao Chen , Xiang Li , Joan Bruna

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

Graph-based Neural Networks (GNNs) are recent models created for learning representations of nodes (and graphs), which have achieved promising results when detecting patterns that occur in large-scale data relating different entities. Among…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ronald D. R. Pereira , Fabrício Murai

Anomaly detection aims to identify deviations from normal patterns within data. This task is particularly crucial in dynamic graphs, which are common in applications like social networks and cybersecurity, due to their evolving structures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Xiao Yang , Xuejiao Zhao , Zhiqi Shen

Detecting anomalies in data is a vital task, with numerous high-impact applications in areas such as security, finance, health care, and law enforcement. While numerous techniques have been developed in past years for spotting outliers and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Leman Akoglu , Hanghang Tong , Danai Koutra

5G and Beyond Networks become increasingly complex and heterogeneous, with diversified and high requirements from a wide variety of emerging applications. The complexity and diversity of Telecom networks place an increasing strain on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 R. Bourgerie , T. Zanouda

Graph-level anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal graphs that exhibit deviant structures and node attributes compared to the majority in a graph set. One primary challenge is to learn normal patterns manifested in both fine-grained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chaoxi Niu , Guansong Pang , Ling Chen

Graph-level anomaly detection aims to identify anomalous graphs or subgraphs within graph datasets, playing a vital role in various fields such as fraud detection, review classification, and biochemistry. While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Liting Li , Yumeng Wang , Yueheng Sun

Rapid and massive adoption of mobile/ online payment services has brought new challenges to the service providers as well as regulators in safeguarding the proper uses such services/ systems. In this paper, we leverage recent advances in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-14 Da Sun Handason Tam , Wing Cheong Lau , Bin Hu , Qiu Fang Ying , Dah Ming Chiu , Hong Liu

This study investigates fraud detection in ride hailing platforms through Graph Neural Networks (GNNs),focusing on the effectiveness of various models. By analyzing prevalent fraudulent activities, the research highlights and compares the…