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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…

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Detecting anomalous nodes in attributed networks, where each node is associated with both structural connections and descriptive attributes, is essential for identifying fraud, misinformation, and suspicious behavior in domains such as…

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Cross-domain graph anomaly detection (CD-GAD) describes the problem of detecting anomalous nodes in an unlabelled target graph using auxiliary, related source graphs with labelled anomalous and normal nodes. Although it presents a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Qizhou Wang , Guansong Pang , Mahsa Salehi , Wray Buntine , Christopher Leckie

Anomaly detection from graph data has drawn much attention due to its practical significance in many critical applications including cybersecurity, finance, and social networks. Existing data mining and machine learning methods are either…

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Log analysis is one of the main techniques engineers use to troubleshoot faults of large-scale software systems. During the past decades, many log analysis approaches have been proposed to detect system anomalies reflected by logs. They…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yongzheng Xie , Hongyu Zhang , Muhammad Ali Babar

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is critical for identifying abnormal nodes in graph-structured data from diverse domains, including cybersecurity and social networks. The existing GAD methods often focus on the learning paradigms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yixin Liu , Shiyuan Li , Yu Zheng , Qingfeng Chen , Chengqi Zhang , Philip S. Yu , Shirui Pan

Anomaly detection suffered from the lack of anomalies due to the diversity of abnormalities and the difficulties of obtaining large-scale anomaly data. Semi-supervised anomaly detection methods are often used to solely leverage normal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jian Shi , Ni Zhang

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a challenging binary classification problem due to its different structural distribution between anomalies and normal nodes -- abnormal nodes are a minority, therefore holding high heterophily and low…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yuan Gao , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Zhenguang Liu , Huamin Feng , Yongdong Zhang

Given a complex graph database of node- and edge-attributed multi-graphs as well as associated metadata for each graph, how can we spot the anomalous instances? Many real-world problems can be cast as graph inference tasks where the graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Konstantinos Sotiropoulos , Lingxiao Zhao , Pierre Jinghong Liang , Leman Akoglu

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) is increasingly shifting to Generalist GAD (GGAD) for cross-domain "one-for-all" detection, but existing GGAD methods predominantly rely on the neighbor consistency principle, falling into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Kaifeng Wei , Teng Liu , Liang Dong , Xiubo Liang , Yuke Li

With a long history of traditional Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) algorithms and recently popular Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), it is still not clear (1) how they perform under a standard comprehensive setting, (2) whether GNNs can…

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Dynamic graphs are rich data structures that are used to model complex relationships between entities over time. In particular, anomaly detection in temporal graphs is crucial for many real world applications such as intrusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Shenyang Huang , Samy Coulombe , Yasmeen Hitti , Reihaneh Rabbany , Guillaume Rabusseau

Driven by the pressing demand for graph anomaly detection (GAD) in high-stakes domains, the generalist GAD paradigm, which trains a single detector transferable across new graphs, has recently gained growing attention. However, existing…

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Trajectory anomaly detection is essential for identifying unusual and unexpected movement patterns in applications ranging from intelligent transportation systems to urban safety and fraud prevention. Existing methods only consider limited…

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Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to identify abnormal nodes that deviate from the majority, has become increasingly important in high-stakes Web domains. However, existing GAD methods follow a "one model per dataset" paradigm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yunhui Liu , Tieke He , Yongchao Liu , Can Yi , Hong Jin , Chuntao Hong

In the domain of anomaly detection, methods often excel in either high-level semantic or low-level industrial benchmarks, rarely achieving cross-domain proficiency. Semantic anomalies are novelties that differ in meaning from the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Luc P. J. Sträter , Mohammadreza Salehi , Efstratios Gavves , Cees G. M. Snoek , Yuki M. Asano

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to detect outliers in graph-structured data, has received increasing research attention recently. However, existing GAD methods assume identical training and testing distributions, which is rarely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Junjun Pan , Yixin Liu , Chuan Zhou , Fei Xiong , Alan Wee-Chung Liew , Shirui Pan

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

Anomaly detection (AD) plays a pivotal role across diverse domains, including cybersecurity, finance, healthcare, and industrial manufacturing, by identifying unexpected patterns that deviate from established norms in real-world data.…

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