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Graph anomaly detection (GAD) is a vital task in graph-based machine learning and has been widely applied in many real-world applications. The primary goal of GAD is to capture anomalous nodes from graph datasets, which evidently deviate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Jingcan Duan , Siwei Wang , Pei Zhang , En Zhu , Jingtao Hu , Hu Jin , Yue Liu , Zhibin Dong

Graph anomaly detection (GAD), which aims to identify unusual graph instances (nodes, edges, subgraphs, or graphs), has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to its significance in a wide range of applications. Deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Hezhe Qiao , Hanghang Tong , Bo An , Irwin King , Charu Aggarwal , Guansong Pang

Graph Anomaly Detection (GAD) plays a vital role in various data mining applications such as e-commerce fraud prevention and malicious user detection. Recently, Graph Neural Network (GNN) based approach has demonstrated great effectiveness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hang Ni , Jindong Han , Nengjun Zhu , Hao Liu

Graph anomaly detection technology has broad applications in financial fraud and risk control. However, existing graph anomaly detection methods often face significant challenges when dealing with complex and variable abnormal patterns, as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Qingyue Cao , Bo Jin , Changwei Gong , Xin Tong , Wenzheng Li , Xiaodong Zhou

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) aims to identify nodes from a graph that are significantly different from normal patterns. Most previous studies are model-driven, focusing on enhancing the detection effect by improving the model structure.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Yitong Hao , Enbo He , Yue Zhang , Guisheng Yin

Graph anomaly detection aims to identify abnormal patterns in networks, but faces significant challenges from label scarcity and extreme class imbalance. While graph contrastive learning offers a promising unsupervised solution, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kamal Berahmand , Saman Forouzandeh , Mehrnoush Mohammadi , Parham Moradi , Mahdi Jalili

A multitude of toxic online behaviors, ranging from network attacks to anonymous traffic and spam, have severely disrupted the smooth operation of networks. Due to the inherent sender-receiver nature of network behaviors, graph-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Ziqi Yuan , Haoyi Zhou , Tianyu Chen , Jianxin Li

Uncovering anomalies in attributed networks has recently gained popularity due to its importance in unveiling outliers and flagging adversarial behavior in a gamut of data and network science applications including {the Internet of Things…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Costas Mavromatis , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

Semi-supervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) utilizes a small set of labeled normal nodes to identify abnormal nodes from a large set of unlabeled nodes in a graph. Current methods in this line posit that 1) normal nodes share a similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guoguo Ai , Hezhe Qiao , Hui Yan , Guansong Pang

Semi-supervised graph anomaly detection (GAD) has recently received increasing attention, which aims to distinguish anomalous patterns from graphs under the guidance of a moderate amount of labeled data and a large volume of unlabeled data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jiazhen Chen , Sichao Fu , Zheng Ma , Mingbin Feng , Tony S. Wirjanto , Qinmu Peng

Anomaly detection in complex domains poses significant challenges due to the need for extensive labeled data and the inherently imbalanced nature of anomalous versus benign samples. Graph-based machine learning models have emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yifan Wei , Anwar Said , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

A graph-based sampling and consensus (GraphSAC) approach is introduced to effectively detect anomalous nodes in large-scale graphs. Existing approaches rely on connectivity and attributes of all nodes to assign an anomaly score per node.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Dimitris Berberidis , Georgios B. Giannakis

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

Many real-world scenarios involving streaming information can be represented as temporal graphs, where data flows through dynamic changes in edges over time. Anomaly detection in this context has the objective of identifying unusual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Simone Mungari , Albert Bifet , Giuseppe Manco , Bernhard Pfahringer

Graph anomaly detection (GAD) has become an increasingly important task across various domains. With the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNNs), GAD methods have achieved significant performance improvements. However, fairness…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Shouju Wang , Yuchen Song , Sheng'en Li , Dongmian Zou

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

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

Node-level graph anomaly detection (GAD) plays a critical role in identifying anomalous nodes from graph-structured data in various domains such as medicine, social networks, and e-commerce. However, challenges have arisen due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Junjun Pan , Yixin Liu , Yizhen Zheng , Shirui Pan

Graph anomaly detection is a popular and vital task in various real-world scenarios, which has been studied for several decades. Recently, many studies extending deep learning-based methods have shown preferable performance on graph anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jing Ren , Mingliang Hou , Zhixuan Liu , Xiaomei Bai

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