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Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is a technique used to identify abnormal nodes within graphs, finding applications in network security, fraud detection, social media spam detection, and various other domains. A common method for GAD is Graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Amit Roy , Juan Shu , Jia Li , Carl Yang , Olivier Elshocht , Jeroen Smeets , Pan Li

Anomaly detection in dynamic graphs is essential for identifying malicious activities, fraud, and unexpected behaviors in real-world systems such as cybersecurity and power grids. However, existing approaches struggle with scalability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Ocheme Anthony Ekle , William Eberle

Graph anomaly detection in this paper aims to distinguish abnormal nodes that behave differently from the benign ones accounting for the majority of graph-structured instances. Receiving increasing attention from both academia and industry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Fanzhen Liu , Xiaoxiao Ma , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Shan Xue , Amin Beheshti , Chuan Zhou , Hao Peng , Quan Z. Sheng , Charu C. Aggarwal

The task of graph-level anomaly detection (GLAD) is to identify anomalous graphs that deviate significantly from the majority of graphs in a dataset. While deep GLAD methods have shown promising performance, their black-box nature limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Qiuran Zhao , Kai Ming Ting , Xinpeng Li

With the widely used smart meters in the energy sector, anomaly detection becomes a crucial mean to study the unusual consumption behaviors of customers, and to discover unexpected events of using energy promptly. Detecting consumption…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Xiufeng Liu , Per Sieverts Nielsen

Anomaly detection is a crucial task in complex distributed systems. A thorough understanding of the requirements and challenges of anomaly detection is pivotal to the security of such systems, especially for real-world deployment. While…

Anomaly detection (AD) is essential in identifying rare and often critical events in complex systems, finding applications in fields such as network intrusion detection, financial fraud detection, and fault detection in infrastructure and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Hao Dong , Gaëtan Frusque , Yue Zhao , Eleni Chatzi , Olga Fink

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

We address a largely open problem of multilabel classification over graphs. Unlike traditional vector input, a graph has rich variable-size substructures which are related to the labels in some ways. We believe that uncovering these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-12 Kien Do , Truyen Tran , Thin Nguyen , Svetha Venkatesh

Few-Shot Industrial Visual Anomaly Detection (FS-IVAD) comprises a critical task in modern manufacturing settings, where automated product inspection systems need to identify rare defects using only a handful of normal/defect-free training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aggelos Psiris , Yannis Panagakis , Maria Vakalopoulou , Georgios Th. Papadopoulos

Industrial Control Systems (ICS) underpin critical infrastructure and face growing cyber-physical threats due to the convergence of operational technology and networked environments. While machine learning-based anomaly detection approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kosti Koistinen , Kirsi Hellsten , Joni Herttuainen , Kimmo K. Kaski

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

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

To ensure the performance of online service systems, their status is closely monitored with various software and system metrics. Performance anomalies represent the performance degradation issues (e.g., slow response) of the service…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Zhuangbin Chen , Jinyang Liu , Yuxin Su , Hongyu Zhang , Xiao Ling , Yongqiang Yang , Michael R. Lyu

Anomaly detection is defined as discovering patterns that do not conform to the expected behavior. Previously, anomaly detection was mostly conducted using traditional shallow learning techniques, but with little improvement. As the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Zhiyuan Liu , Chunjie Cao , Jingzhang 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

Anomaly detection in multivariate time series (MTS) is crucial for various applications in data mining and industry. Current industrial methods typically approach anomaly detection as an unsupervised learning task, aiming to identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Yuanyi Wang , Haifeng Sun , Chengsen Wang , Mengde Zhu , Jingyu Wang , Wei Tang , Qi Qi , Zirui Zhuang , Jianxin Liao

Anomaly detection of time series, especially multivariate time series(time series with multiple sensors), has been focused on for several years. Though existing method has achieved great progress, there are several challenging problems to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Weixuan Xiong , Xiaochen Sun

Graph anomaly detection is crucial for identifying nodes that deviate from regular behavior within graphs, benefiting various domains such as fraud detection and social network. Although existing reconstruction-based methods have achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Junwei He , Qianqian Xu , Yangbangyan Jiang , Zitai Wang , Qingming Huang

Anomaly detection on attributed networks is widely used in online shopping, financial transactions, communication networks, and so on. However, most existing works trying to detect anomalies on attributed networks only consider a single…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ling-Hao Chen , He Li , Wanyuan Zhang , Jianbin Huang , Xiaoke Ma , Jiangtao Cui , Ning Li , Jaesoo Yoo