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Recently, a considerable literature has grown up around the theme of Graph Convolutional Network (GCN). How to effectively leverage the rich structural information in complex graphs, such as knowledge graphs with heterogeneous types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Donghan Yu , Yiming Yang , Ruohong Zhang , Yuexin Wu

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved tremendous success in the task of graph classification and its diverse downstream real-world applications. Despite the huge success in learning graph representations, current GNN models have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Xin Wang , Heng Chang , Beini Xie , Tian Bian , Shiji Zhou , Daixin Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Wenwu Zhu

This work proposes a framework LGKDE that learns kernel density estimation for graphs. The key challenge in graph density estimation lies in effectively capturing both structural patterns and semantic variations while maintaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Xudong Wang , Ziheng Sun , Chris Ding , Jicong Fan

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are powerful tools for graph-structured data. However, they have been recently shown to be vulnerable to topological attacks. To enhance adversarial robustness, we go beyond spectral graph theory to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Ming Jin , Heng Chang , Wenwu Zhu , Somayeh Sojoudi

This study explores the effectiveness of graph neural networks (GNNs) for vulnerability detection in software code, utilizing a real-world dataset of Java vulnerability-fixing commits. The dataset's structure, based on the number of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ravil Mussabayev

Control Flow Graphs (CFGs) are critical for analyzing program execution and characterizing malware behavior. With the growing adoption of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), CFG-based representations have proven highly effective for malware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Hossein Shokouhinejad , Griffin Higgins , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Hesamodin Mohammadian , Ali A. Ghorbani

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are vulnerable to data poisoning attacks, which will generate a poisoned graph as the input to the GNN models. We present FocusedCleaner as a poisoned graph sanitizer to effectively identify the poison injected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yulin Zhu , Liang Tong , Gaolei Li , Xiapu Luo , Kai Zhou

We propose a framework that lifts the capabilities of graph convolutional networks (GCNs) to scenarios where no input graph is given and increases their robustness to adversarial attacks. We formulate a joint probabilistic model that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Pantelis Elinas , Edwin V. Bonilla , Louis Tiao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in representing data with dependencies by recursively propagating and aggregating messages along the edges. However, edges in real-world graphs often have varying degrees of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zheng Zhang , Junxiang Wang , Liang Zhao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in relational learning tasks, including node classification and link prediction. However, their application raises significant fairness concerns, as GNNs can perpetuate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Mahdi Tavassoli Kejani , Fadi Dornaika , Jean-Michel Loubes

Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has been widely used in graph learning tasks. However, GCN-based models (GCNs) is an inherently coupled training framework repetitively conducting the complex neighboring aggregation, which leads to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Dalong Yang , Chuan Chen , Youhao Zheng , Zibin Zheng , Shih-wei Liao

K-cores are maximal induced subgraphs where all vertices have degree at least k. These dense patterns have applications in community detection, network visualization and protein function prediction. However, k-cores can be quite unstable to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Sourav Medya , Tiyani Ma , Arlei Silva , Ambuj Singh

The expressivity of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has been studied broadly in recent years to reveal the design principles for more powerful GNNs. Graph canonization is known as a typical approach to distinguish non-isomorphic graphs, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Zehao Dong , Muhan Zhang , Philip R. O. Payne , Michael A Province , Carlos Cruchaga , Tianyu Zhao , Fuhai Li , Yixin Chen

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel on homophilous graphs but often fail under heterophily due to self-reinforcing and phase-inconsistent signals. We propose a \textbf{G}auge-\textbf{E}quivariant Graph Network with \textbf{S}elf-Interference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yoonhyuk Choi , Jiho Choi , Jiwoo Kang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have attracted significant attention for their outstanding performance in graph learning and node classification tasks. However, their vulnerability to adversarial attacks, particularly through susceptible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Sepideh Neshatfar , Salimeh Yasaei Sekeh

Traditional clustering algorithms often struggle to capture the complex relationships within graphs and generalise to arbitrary clustering criteria. The emergence of graph neural networks (GNNs) as a powerful framework for learning…

Biological Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Sam Alexander Martino , João Morado , Chenghao Li , Zhenghao Lu , Edina Rosta

Assessing and improving the robustness of a graph $G$ are critical steps in network design and analysis. To this end, we consider the optimisation problem of removing $k$ edges from $G$ such that the resulting graph has minimal robustness,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Lukas Berner , Henning Meyerhenke

Machine learning models are highly vulnerable to label flipping, i.e., the adversarial modification (poisoning) of training labels to compromise performance. Thus, deriving robustness certificates is important to guarantee that test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Mahalakshmi Sabanayagam , Lukas Gosch , Stephan Günnemann , Debarghya Ghoshdastidar

This paper studies semi-supervised graph classification, which is an important problem with various applications in social network analysis and bioinformatics. This problem is typically solved by using graph neural networks (GNNs), which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Wei Ju , Junwei Yang , Meng Qu , Weiping Song , Jianhao Shen , Ming Zhang

Clustering data using prior domain knowledge, starting from a partially labeled set, has recently been widely investigated. Often referred to as semi-supervised clustering, this approach leverages labeled data to enhance clustering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Gabriel Santos , Rita Julia , Marcelo Nascimento