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Detecting anomalous behavior in dynamic networks remains a constant challenge. This problem is further exacerbated when the underlying topology of these networks is affected by individual highly-dimensional node attributes. We address this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Emiliano Penaloza , Nathaniel Stevens

In a variety of applications, one desires to detect groups of anomalous data samples, with a group potentially manifesting its atypicality (relative to a reference model) on a low-dimensional subset of the full measured set of features.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Zhicong Qiu , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

The accelerated development of social media websites has posed intricate security issues in cyberspace, where these sites have increasingly become victims of criminal activities including attempts to intrude into them, abnormal traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aditi Sanjay Agrawal

The widespread use of social media has highlighted potential negative impacts on society and individuals, largely driven by recommendation algorithms that shape user behavior and social dynamics. Understanding these algorithms is essential…

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To improve the identification of potential anomaly patterns in complex user behavior, this paper proposes an anomaly detection method based on a deep mixture density network. The method constructs a Gaussian mixture model parameterized by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Lu Dai , Wenxuan Zhu , Xuehui Quan , Renzi Meng , Sheng Chai , Yichen Wang

Anomaly detection (such as telecom fraud detection and medical image detection) has attracted the increasing attention of people. The complex interaction between multiple entities widely exists in the network, which can reflect specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Xu Yuan , Na Zhou , Shuo Yu , Huafei Huang , Zhikui Chen , Feng Xia

Graph-based Anomaly Detection models have gained widespread adoption in recent years, identifying suspicious nodes by aggregating neighborhood information. However, most existing studies overlook the pervasive issues of missing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Junpeng Wu , Pinheng Zong

This study proposes a credit card fraud detection method based on Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network (HGNN) to address fraud in complex transaction networks. Unlike traditional machine learning methods that rely solely on numerical features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Qiuwu Sha , Tengda Tang , Xinyu Du , Jie Liu , Yixian Wang , Yuan Sheng

Graph-based anomaly detection is pivotal in diverse security applications, such as fraud detection in transaction networks and intrusion detection for network traffic. Standard approaches, including Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), often…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Andy Zhou , Xiaojun Xu , Ramesh Raghunathan , Alok Lal , Xinze Guan , Bin Yu , Bo Li

We devise an autoencoder based strategy to facilitate anomaly detection for boosted jets, employing Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to do so. To overcome known limitations of GNN autoencoders, we design a symmetric decoder capable of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Oliver Atkinson , Akanksha Bhardwaj , Christoph Englert , Vishal S. Ngairangbam , Michael Spannowsky

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with differential privacy have been proposed to preserve graph privacy when nodes represent personal and sensitive information. However, the existing methods ignore that nodes with different importance may yield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yuxin Qi , Xi Lin , Jun Wu

Different from the current node-level anomaly detection task, the goal of graph-level anomaly detection is to find abnormal graphs that significantly differ from others in a graph set. Due to the scarcity of research on the work of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Fu Lin , Xuexiong Luo , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Zitong Wang , Haonan Gong

In the Internet of Things (IoT) devices are exposed to various kinds of attacks when connected to the Internet. An attack detection mechanism that understands the limitations of these severely resource-constrained devices is necessary. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Nidhi Rastogi , James Hendler

With the rapid development of Internet of Things technologies, the next generation traffic monitoring infrastructures are connected via the web, to aid traffic data collection and intelligent traffic management. One of the most important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yue Hu , Yuhang Zhang , Yanbing Wang , Daniel Work

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify abnormal nodes that differ from the majority of the nodes in a graph, which has been attracting significant attention in recent years. Existing generalist graph models have achieved remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hezhe Qiao , Chaoxi Niu , Ling Chen , Guansong Pang

This paper presents a novel approach to credit risk prediction by employing Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNNs) to assess the creditworthiness of borrowers. Leveraging the power of big data and artificial intelligence, the proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Mengfang Sun , Wenying Sun , Ying Sun , Shaobo Liu , Mohan Jiang , Zhen Xu

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes that deviate from the majority within a graph, playing a crucial role in applications such as social networks and e-commerce. Despite the current advancements in deep learning-based GAD,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yunfeng Zhao , Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Qingfeng Chen , Yu Zheng , Shirui Pan

In today's world, modern infrastructures are being equipped with information and communication technologies to create large IoT networks. It is essential to monitor these networks to ensure smooth operations by detecting and correcting link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Blaž Bertalanič , Matej Vnučec , Carolina Fortuna

With increasing concerns about privacy attacks and potential sensitive information leakage, researchers have actively explored methods to efficiently remove sensitive training data and reduce privacy risks in graph neural network (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Faqian Guan , Tianqing Zhu , Zhoutian Wang , Wei Ren , Wanlei Zhou

The proliferation of web platforms has created incentives for online abuse. Many graph-based anomaly detection techniques are proposed to identify the suspicious accounts and behaviors. However, most of them detect the anomalies once the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Tong Zhao , Bo Ni , Wenhao Yu , Zhichun Guo , Neil Shah , Meng Jiang