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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve high performance across many applications but function as black-box models, limiting their use in critical domains like healthcare and criminal justice. Explainability methods address this by providing…

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool for graph classification and representation learning. However, GNNs tend to suffer from over-smoothing problems and are vulnerable to graph perturbations. To address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Yuzhou Chen , Baris Coskunuzer , Yulia R. Gel

In recent years, with the rapid development of graph neural networks (GNN), more and more graph datasets have been published for GNN tasks. However, when an upstream data owner publishes graph data, there are often many privacy concerns,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Wanghan Xu , Bin Shi , Ao Liu , Jiqiang Zhang , Bo Dong

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable performance in various applications. Recently, graph prompt learning has emerged as a powerful GNN training paradigm, inspired by advances in language and vision foundation models. Here, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jing Xu , Franziska Boenisch , Iyiola Emmanuel Olatunji , Adam Dziedzic

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved notable success in tasks such as social and transportation networks. However, recent studies have highlighted the vulnerability of GNNs to backdoor attacks, raising significant concerns about their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Chang Liu , Hai Huang , Yujie Xing , Xingquan Zuo

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) are a powerful architecture for representation learning on documents that naturally occur as graphs, e.g., citation or social networks. However, sensitive personal information, such as documents with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Timour Igamberdiev , Ivan Habernal

GNNs can inadvertently expose sensitive user information and interactions through their model predictions. To address these privacy concerns, Differential Privacy (DP) protocols are employed to control the trade-off between provable privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Eli Chien , Wei-Ning Chen , Chao Pan , Pan Li , Ayfer Özgür , Olgica Milenkovic

As an efficient neural network model for graph data, graph neural networks (GNNs) recently find successful applications for various wireless optimization problems. Given that the inference stage of GNNs can be naturally implemented in a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Mengyuan Lee , Guanding Yu , Huaiyu Dai

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used and deployed for graph-based prediction tasks. However, as good as GNNs are for learning graph data, they also come with the risk of privacy leakage. For instance, an attacker can run carefully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Mir Imtiaz Mostafiz , Imtiaz Karim , Elisa Bertino

Although recent network representation learning (NRL) works in text-attributed networks demonstrated superior performance for various graph inference tasks, learning network representations could always raise privacy concerns when nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Huixin Zhan , Victor S. Sheng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which generalize traditional deep neural networks on graph data, have achieved state-of-the-art performance on several graph analytical tasks. We focus on how trained GNN models could leak information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Wolfgang Nejdl , Megha Khosla

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved great success in learning with graph-structured data. Privacy concerns have also been raised for the trained models which could expose the sensitive information of graphs including both node…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Qiuchen Zhang , Hong kyu Lee , Jing Ma , Jian Lou , Carl Yang , Li Xiong

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved promising performance in various real-world applications. However, recent studies have shown that GNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In this paper, we study a recently-introduced realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Xu Zou , Qinkai Zheng , Yuxiao Dong , Xinyu Guan , Evgeny Kharlamov , Jialiang Lu , Jie Tang

Graph-based retrieval-augmented generation (Graph RAG) is increasingly deployed to support LLM applications by augmenting user queries with structured knowledge retrieved from a knowledge graph. While Graph RAG improves relational…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Minkyoo Song , Jaehan Kim , Myungchul Kang , Hanna Kim , Seungwon Shin , Sooel Son

Graph data, such as chemical networks and social networks, may be deemed confidential/private because the data owner often spends lots of resources collecting the data or the data contains sensitive information, e.g., social relationships.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Xinlei He , Jinyuan Jia , Michael Backes , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Yang Zhang

Backdoor attack is a powerful attack algorithm to deep learning model. Recently, GNN's vulnerability to backdoor attack has been proved especially on graph classification task. In this paper, we propose the first backdoor detection and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Bingchen Jiang , Zhao Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have shown remarkable success in various graph-based learning tasks. However, recent studies have raised concerns about fairness and privacy issues in GNNs, highlighting the potential for biased or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Bartlomiej Surma , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved significant success in graph representation learning and have been applied to various domains. However, many real-world graphs contain sensitive personal information, such as user profiles in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Longzhu He , Chaozhuo Li , Peng Tang , Li Sun , Sen Su , Philip S. Yu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have significantly advanced various downstream graph-relevant tasks, encompassing recommender systems, molecular structure prediction, social media analysis, etc. Despite the boosts of GNN, recent research has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Xiao Yang , Gaolei Li , Jianhua Li